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The title of my radio drama is "Bucket". The summary of it is just down below.

The story starts off with a student from school getting ready to play their first basketball game of the season at their new school. There was a lot of pressure on him because he knew he was one of the best players on the team and he knew that he had to play well, because it was his first game. 

His first game did not go well, not at all, he played horribly, and everyone expected him to play well because he was considered the best player on the team and he put so much pressure on himself to perform the best he could, but everything went wrong. He made a lot of turnovers he took horrible shots and let all his teammates and coaches down. The student went on to have 3 more horrible games each worse than the one before, everyone started hating him, saying he shouldn't be on the team and he was worthless, the only person who believed in him was his coach.

After each of the games that the student had played horribly, every time the next day at school he got bullied told how he was not good enough. He had people walking past him calling him bad at basketball, it was horrible for him because basketball was his personality. He did not enjoy it at all, but if he spoke to someone about it, they will tell him to man up and take it, but it was draining physically, getting pushed in corridor, and draining mentally being put down constantly by everyone in the school.

After a big loss, the player went home straight away because he couldn't handle anything anymore it was too much. He decided to go home and spend some time with his family. But something interrupted his time, his phone kept buzzing, it kept sounding like it was a ton of notifications on his phone, at first, he ignored it, but it kept on going. He opened his phone and found out that he had been added to a group chat, named after him, and it had all the people that bullied him, and they called him names on there, started even calling him as well. This was very very draining for the player.

After some time, the player fell into depression, and he was very very sad, he thought that maybe he shouldn't play basketball ever again, and he also started getting suicidal thoughts, but before he went further with anything, he called up his coach to tell him that he might stop playing basketball, and him and his coach had a really good conversation and the coach helped the player understand that blocking out the noise from all the other players and students, it is possible it is a skill to be learnt and his coach said he will be by his side all the time and if he ever wanted to talk about something he could.

The key characters within this radio drama, are the schoolboy who plays on the basketball team, who is Joseph, and the other main character is the Coach, who helps Joseph become his best possible self and deal with a lot of bullying.

The structure of the radio drama is a 3-act structure where this is a start, which is before school starts, then the rising action, which is, Joseph losing games and starting to get bullied. Then the climax is where he doesn't know what to do anymore and then his coach comes to help him out and put him back on track to become his best possible self, and all of this is the resolution.