Listening Task

You are required to listen to the first 5 minutes of each of the following (You can listen to more if you
want)
 Everyday Time Machines (nominated for best single drama)
 Dark Passenger (horror)
 The Troll of Stoney brook

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
Use of sound Use of Use of Music Use of Characters or
Narrative silence narrator
Everyday (Back ground (How are they (How many? Male /
sounds for talking) female?)
Time location
Machines settings)

What is drama
about?

Dark The two There’s the There’s no In the first five

Passenger During the teenagers use of an real use of minutes there
first five talk to each acoustic silence in are only two
minutes, the other very guitar the first five characters.
rumbling on casually, instrumental minutes. There’s Matt,
What is drama
about? the car one telling whilst the the more-
The drama engine can morbid jokes narrator straight
is about two be heard, and the begins the forward
teenagers alongside other story, character
driving to music on the focusing on alongside a who’s visiting
and radio, doors, the journey. similar the house due
exploring an and the Through the instrumental it being in his
apparently appearance way that being played family for
haunted of wind as they are as the two some time.
house tied the two exit talking the speak in the Matt is also the
to one of the car. listener can car. The first person
their tell that music narrator of the
families. they’ve becomes story, telling
known each eerier as the the listener of
other for two attempt the events that
some time. to enter the took place.
house and David is Matt’s
discuss the friend, who’s
unsettling clearly more
history immature in
behind it. his decision
making and
humour; it’s
also told that
he regularly
smokes
marijuana.
The Troll of The sound of The teenage There is an There’s no Jamie is the
Stoney various characters acoustic real use of protagonist of
Brook people all talk to instrumental silence in the radio
talking is each other as the drama; an
What is drama used in the very narrator the first five awkward
about?
beginning at casually talks before minutes. teenager who
the party, apart from cutting to struggles to
The drama
emphasizing Jamie, who’s heavy rock socialize, he is
is about an
how large of anxious, music at the the one who
awkward,
a social awkward party. discovers the
socially-
gathering it way of Troll. Margot
anxious
is. When speaking and Rick were
teenager
Jamie makes him a two other
hitting a troll
leaves, sort of guests at the
with his car
there’s the outcast. party, who
after leaving
sound of ditch Jamie to
a party.
footsteps, go elsewhere;
his car Margot may be
running and Jamie’s love
moving, and interest,
his phone though she
ringing. sound more
interested in
the confident
Rick. The Troll
is a massive
creature that
Jamie hits with
his car; its
unknown if it
speaks yet,
only
communicating
in growls and
grunts.