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?

Use of sound

Use of
Narrative

Use of Music

Use of
silence
Always
something
being said or
background
noise

Characters
or narrator

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)
Use of diegetic
sounds
Ringing
Static
Non diegetic
sounds
Piano music
Birds and cars in
background

(How are they

talking)
Talking as if the
characters have
all been very
well educated
and have come
from a posh
area: via their
accents

Slow moving
music when
the mood is
set to a
more
depressing
scene

No music
being used

Always
something
being said or
background
noise

Two male
farmers

Intro music:
uplifting and
use of
trumpets

Always
something
being said or
background
noise

Rumpole
Michael and
Rumpoles
wife

(How many?
Male / female?)
3 males
: two students
and a professor

Linear narrative

Al smiths play
look at the fate
of three
physicists whos
fate is
intertwined by
time

The Archers
(1984)
episode
(5.55)
What is drama
about?

Sets scene
around a
farmland:
birds, stepping
on deep dirt
and grass

The farmers
attend to an
orphaned
lamb and
discuss an
upcoming
wedding of
Susan and
Neil

Rumpole

Train going
across the
tracks

What is drama
about?

In 1964,
Rumpole returns
to Oxford, where
he studied law,
to defend a
young gardener,
Peter Vernon,
accused of
blackmailing the
Master of St
Joseph's College,
Sir Michael
Tuffnell.

Talking like
British
northerners
who use a lot
of shortened
words to get
the point
across faster
Linear
narrative

Talking very
old fashioned
and straight
where the
words use are
of like coming
out of a book:
their accent
seems to be
looking from a
posh area of
london
Linear
Narrative

In my group that James put me in I was with Antonio and Dan

briefly, we listened to the Sci Fi: The Cleansed. It wasnt very long
and talked about a bunch of teenage friends stuck on a boat in the
middle of a storm.