1. The programme is called Girl Taken and can be watched at any time on BBC 4 sound. It was released on the 16th March 2020, which was during the time of the pandemic, this means that no one was going work therefore they are can listen to podcasts like Girl Taken. The main audience would be older people this is because it more of a crime type of podcast, which talks about how an Afghan father and his motherless daughter as they struggled to get to Britain.
2. The podcast consists of 10 episodes which each episode is around 20-30 minutes.
3. The purpose of this programme is to educate and entertain people. This means that the audience will listen and see what mistakes they make so the audience don't make the same. The main aim of the programme is to educate the audience so that they can learn from others mistakes. The weather outside feels like its raining and cold as you can hear the rain coming down at the start of the programme.
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1 | It begins with intense music which shows the programme will be serious then the narrator speaking over the background music about the events |
2 | The voiceover of the narrator talks about how the father and his daughter are struggling to get the UK |
3 | It begins with narrator explaining the environment she is in, parked up on a side of a road which her interior lights on, with a teddy bear in her hand with a tracking device installed in it |
4 | Rob which is involved in the heart-breaking story of an afghan father and his motherless daughter struggling to get to the UK |
5 | Rob explains the situation which they were in and how they had to travel from Afghanistan to the UK |
6 | The sound effects used were the rain coming down with the waves splashing in the background. |
It starts with intense music which shows that the programme will be serious. You can then hear the rain coming down and waves splashing as the narrator is speaking. She then talks about a teddy bear which she bought a few hours ago, this might indicate that she needs something with her and she could be scared. She then explains where she is, parked up on a dark side street with the interior lights on. She has a tracking device inside the teddy bear which might indicate she could be kidnapped and is for her safety, as the intense background music continues to play. After a minute in the programme you can hear a walkie-talkie speaking, you can hear a person being interviewed outside as the cars pass by. I think people are being interviewed on what might have happened. It sounds like someone is looking for her daughter which has been kidnapped and is crying for help. The narrator then goes to the beginning when they were happily living together. The narrator then goes on about her father came to the UK through illegal routes such as at the back of lorries. A refugee camp of around 6000 people wanting to come to the UK illegally. As the narrator talked about how they were coming to the UK you can hear in the background some type of music playing, sounded like afghan music. She then interviews an ex-british solider. The narrator is a BBC journalist which has been on a journey with the refugees and how they travel to the UK. Later you can her the sea and a news reporter saying they have found many bodies drowned including a toddler perhaps of the age of 2. You can hear someone talking about how they were having fun at the beach and he wanted to see how long he could hold his breath and sees the 4 year old boy gone. Rob wearing a hat which stood out so people knew who it was. Rob asking if they speak Arabic, and then says hello to his daughter. A afghan father which wanted to get to the UK with his daughter, he had got a death threat from the Taliban which made him move out from Afghanistan, and move in with his nephew in Leeds where they will rebuild their life again. The intense music went throughout the entire episode. This was only the first episode and there are many more to come.
5. The sounds used in the programme were very intense and the narrator was telling the story in a way that will attract the audience and wanting them to carry on listening.
6. There were quite a few character in the first episode but the main character was Rob which showed the afghan father the way. The narrator was speaking about all the events taking place.
7. Producer - Sue Mitchell
Studio production and sound design - Richard Hannaford
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