This is an article as submitted (but not yet accepted at the time of writing) for publication in the volume Music in Radio Drama, part of the "Words and Music" series published by Brill, p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} (general series editors: Walter Bernhart, Michael Halliwell, Lawrence Kramer, Steven Paul Scher and Werner Wolf). It contextualises the composition of a score for the BBC Radio 4 drama adaptation of John Wyndham's The Kraken Wakes.