I worked on a summer replacement radio series called NEXT once with host Nora Young and producer Alison Moss. They were so great to work with, and indulged my passion for high production radio with bits like this one, which introduced one of the episodes.
Boy I loved making stuff like this.
Here’s the script, with the actual produced version at the end.
NEXT: A Host of Data
SFX: OFFICE AMB BG
NARR: Indefatigable Nora Young surfs the net, quietly sipping tea.
NORA: (LOUD SIP)
NARR: She is thinking furiously:
NORA: Hmm… I wonder what today’s show should be about?
NARR: Friend and colleague Alison Moss appears in the doorway.
ALISON: Hey Nora!
NORA: Oh!
SFX: KNOCKS OVER TEA CUP
NARR: Startled, clumsy Nora knocks her tea onto the computer.
SFX: COMPUTER SHORT CIRCUITS
NORA: Dag nabbit!
SFX: OFFICE AMB BG OUT
SFX: WOOSHING DATA STREAM
NARR: A freak chain reaction occurs. Our hapless host is drawn inside the computer!
NORA: Noooooooo!
SFX: NORA LANDS WITH A THUMP INSIDE COMPUTER
NORA: Oof! (GRUNTS IN PAIN) Where am I?
NARR: Nora is trapped in a virtual landscape of ones and zeroes. Drowning in a sea of binary information, Nora comes face to face…. with herself.
DRONING NORA VOICE: Nora Esmerelda Young, born nineteen sixty-four, daughter of Clem and Doreen, brothers John, Alfred, Immanuel, postal code L2N 3G5, (CONTINUES BG)
NORA: (OVER VOICES) All this information… about me!
DRONING VOICE: (CONTINUING) Favourite food: schnitzel, last purchased July 28th, 2004 at Loblaws on the corner of Dufferin and Brock…
NARR: Clever Nora can only to come to one conclusion:
SFX: OFFICE AMB BG
NORA: That’s it! I’ll make the show about data!
END
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