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?

It is about
three
physicists
who meet in
oxford and
have their
lives messed
with by time
TRAVEL.

Use of sound

Use of
Narrative

Use of Music

(Back ground
sounds for
location
settings)

(How are they

talking)

Instrumental
classical,
music,
Slow paced

The archers
is about a
rural village
in the
country and
their lives.

Rumpole has

Simple
sound
effects are
used, such
as footsteps,
creeky
floorboards

(How many?
Male / female?)
Characters, no
narration,
5 MALES ,
3 FEMALES

Calm,
country lingo

Instrumental
classical
music used
at the
beginning
and end and
some
intervals

Silences
used to
indicate a
new location.

Characters
no narration,
Equal
amount
between
males and
females.

The
narration is
linear

Instrumental
music used
for intervals

Some short
silences are
used to build
tension.

Characters
no narration,
two male
characters

Farming
sound
effects such
as grass
rustling,
wooden
gates
swinging
open,

Rumpole

What is drama
about?

Characters
or narrator

USE OF
FUTURISTIC
SPACE SOUND
EFFECTSTO
REPLICATE TIME
TRAVEL

The Archers

What is drama
about?

Calm, slow,
posh lingo

Use of
silence
NO USE OF
SILENCE,
CONSTANT
NOISE

to defend his
client, a
young
gardener
who is
accused of
blackmail by
is boss.

and closing
doors.