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Listening Task
You are
want)

required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
Everyday Time Machines (nominated for best single drama)
The Archers (longest running radio drama in history)
Rumpole staring Benedict Cumberbatch

Note down what sounds you hear and how you know where they are and what is happening. The point
of Radio drama is to set the scene through SOUND rather than visual

Drama
Everyday
Time
Machines
What is drama
about?

Travelling
back in
time.

The
Archers

What is drama
about?

New
church
window in
the village,
and world
war.

Use of
sound

Use of
Narrative

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)

(How are they

talking)

The sound is
mostly
diegetic but
there is
some prop
sound
effects such
as the
phone.

The sound is
dominantly
diegetic
speaking
with Foley
noises such
as the
background
characters
around
them.

Use of
Music

Use of silence

Characters
or narrator
(How many?
Male / female?)

There are some

short pauses to
create tension as
well as a change
of events or time.

They are
talking in a
slow calm
manor, but
occasionally
the voices
are muffled
to create a
realistic
effect when
talking
through the
phone.

There is
some slow
playing
music to
add effect
to the
emotions in
the
scenario,
these are
nondiegetic
sounds.

There is a
dominant
narrative
voice that is
speaking
over the
storyline.
And they
are talking
in a casual
manor.

There is
introduction
music and
theme
music but
the sound is
mostly
diegetic
speaking
from the
characters.

There is a use of
silence to show
time passing or a
change of
events/characters
.

There is a
round 3 of
main
characters
and around
6-7 other
characters.
Who are
mostly
female with
a nonlinear
narrative.

They are
talking in a
dramatic
way with
subtle
voices as
they are
quite well
spoken.

There are
mostly
diegetic
sounds as it
is set in real
time.
However
here is a
narrator
who is
talking
about the
time passes
in between
the events.

There are some

short pauses to
create tension as
well as a change
of events or time.
However there
are fewer pauses
as the main
character is
narrating
between the e
vents.

There are 4
main
characters.
One of the
ma lawyer,
the other is
a junior
gardener,
one I the
principle of
the
university.
They are all
male
characters.

There are
two main
characters
who appear
to be
talking
about
another
character.
This also
has a nonlinear
narrative.

Rumpole

What is drama
about?
A gardener
who is
charged of
blackmailing
the
headmaster,
who
previously had
a good
relationship,
and one of the
characters
goes back to
Oxford to
realize that

There are
diegetic
sounds such
as train
tracks and
background
noises such
as Foley
from the
other
characters
including a
baby in the
background.

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the other
character is
completely
not guilty.

Dylan
Thomas
Magical
Tale

There is
diegetic
sounds
witch set the
scene such
as carol
singing to
create a life
like
atmosphere.

There is a
gentle
narrative
the overlays
on top of
the scene
witch
explains.

There are
more
diegetic
sounds
without
music.

There are some

short pauses to
create tension as
well as a change
of events or time.

There are a
series of
characters
who are
mostly
male.