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    The document provides listening notes on three radio dramas: 1. Everyday Time Machines uses nonlinear narrative and background sounds to set different scenes without visuals and follows three physicists who meet at Oxford. 2. The Archers has been running for a long time and uses a theme tune, background music, and diegetic sounds to portray characters and locations without visuals. 3. Rumpole starring Benedict Cumberbatch focuses on Rumpole's early life as a lawyer through first person narrative, background emotional music, and diegetic sounds of things like chairs moving.

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    Task 1 Radio Lo1

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    The document provides listening notes on three radio dramas: 1. Everyday Time Machines uses nonlinear narrative and background sounds to set different scenes without visuals and follows three physicists who meet at Oxford. 2. The Archers has been running for a long time and uses a theme tune, background music, and diegetic sounds to portray characters and locations without visuals. 3. Rumpole starring Benedict Cumberbatch focuses on Rumpole's early life as a lawyer through first person narrative, background emotional music, and diegetic sounds of things like chairs moving.

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    The document provides listening notes on three radio dramas: 1. Everyday Time Machines uses nonlinear narrative and background sounds to set different scenes without visuals and follows three physicists who meet at Oxford. 2. The Archers has been running for a long time and uses a theme tune, background music, and diegetic sounds to portray characters and locations without visuals. 3. Rumpole starring Benedict Cumberbatch focuses on Rumpole's early life as a lawyer through first person narrative, background emotional music, and diegetic sounds of things like chairs moving.

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    Task 1 Radio Lo1

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    The document provides listening notes on three radio dramas: 1. Everyday Time Machines uses nonlinear narrative and background sounds to set different scenes without visuals and follows three physicists who meet at Oxford. 2. The Archers has been running for a long time and uses a theme tune, background music, and diegetic sounds to portray characters and locations without visuals. 3. Rumpole starring Benedict Cumberbatch focuses on Rumpole's early life as a lawyer through first person narrative, background emotional music, and diegetic sounds of things like chairs moving.

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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?
    Al Smith's play
    looks at the
    fate of three
    physicists who
    meet at Oxford
    and how Time
    plays a central
    part in their
    work and their
    relationships
    with
    devastating
    consequences
    .
    The Archers

    What is
    drama
    about?

    Rumpole

    Use of
    sound
    (Back
    ground
    sounds for
    location
    settings)

    Use of
    Narrative
    (How are
    they
    talking)

    Use of
    Music

    Use of
    silence

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

    Nonlinear
    structure,
    third
    person.

    Background
    music and
    sounds
    outside to
    set the
    different
    scenes

    There are
    nondiegetic
    sounds in
    this radio
    drama

    The
    narrative
    is realistic,
    its as if
    you could
    actually
    see them
    as it
    sounds so
    realistic.
    Nonlinear
    narrative.

    Theme tune
    at the
    beginning
    and the end
    of each
    episode
    and
    throughout
    there are
    bits of
    background
    music.

    Silence
    used to
    show
    change of
    scene and
    character.

    Four to five
    people
    both male
    and
    female.

    Baby noises
    to show
    there is a

    Nonlinear
    narrative,
    first

    Theme tune
    at the
    beginning

    No use of
    silence.

    Four
    characters
    both male

    Emotional
    music at
    the start to
    set the
    mood of
    the story.

    What is
    drama
    about?
    Rumpoles
    younger life
    of being a
    lawyer.

    child.
    Diegetic
    background
    noises such
    as the
    moving of
    chairs,
    shutting
    doors and
    cars.

    person

    and end of
    each
    episode.

    and female
    and a baby.

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