6.2 When I Lived In Peru

Question 1

Genre / mode?

Answer 1

Radio drama script, intended for performance

Question 2

Audience?

Answer 2

Fans + followers of Viner / interested in radio drama / technicians + performers involved / radio 4 listeners

Question 3

Purpose?

Answer 3

To entertain

Question 4

Ambitious vocab for Martin’s voice?

Answer 4

Dull, passive, considerate, disbelieving, colloquial, shocked, self-pitying, apathetic

Question 5

Ambitious vocab for Julian / Claire?

Answer 5

Satisfied, avuncular, pleased, patient

Question 6

Synopsis of show?

Answer 6

Martin is made redundant, lies to his spouse, and goes to travel the world

Question 7

Generic conventions of radio dramas?

Answer 7

Distinct voices, sound effects, ‘stage’ directions, few characters

Question 8

J, ‘Re-assess their lives, perhaps re-train to do something they really love.’

Answer 8

Attempted comfort; gentle + caring; others Martin; assumes he didn’t like his job; focus on hope + new beginnings

Question 9

J, ‘No, I’m afraid we’re making you redundant.’

Answer 9

Hedge; Martin othered using pronouns; professional lexis

Question 10

M, ‘I guess the differences between us could be highlighted by our respective attitudes to our careers.’

Answer 10

Informal, uncaring, hedges; subversion of togetherness; metaphor, idiom; highlights differences; mystery + togetherness

Question 11

M, ‘But I loved my job. […] That’s what I loved.’

Answer 11

Protests, fronted conjunction; superlative, past tense; short statement, shocked; repetition, shock

Question 12

M, ‘Oh… Nothing really. Cheers.’

Answer 12

Hedging, buys time; GC, few characters and short sentences; lies to spouse; juxtaposes promotion and redundancy