Exemplar: Series 1: Trailer
Limelight
BBC
4.4 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Gina McKee plays a lone wolf scientist with a troubled past whose passion for sound makes her the UK’s leading audio forensic examiner. Together with her new trainee, Maya, she undertakes a different sound challenge in every episode.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Have you ever wondered what sound looks like? |
| 0:23.6 | Take an image of an audio file and zoom in. |
| 0:26.6 | Open it out, expand it and expand it until you can't expand it anymore. |
| 0:32.6 | And what you're left with is a single line. |
| 0:35.6 | But it feels like the past is very present here. |
| 0:42.1 | Old places. |
| 0:44.8 | Old faces. |
| 0:46.0 | A line that undulates, rising and falling over time across an axis. |
| 0:51.6 | Bad times. |
| 0:53.8 | But I'm not going to let them get me. |
| 0:56.0 | They're after me. |
| 0:59.0 | It can contain soaring peaks and deep troughs. |
| 1:03.0 | It can hold resonant bass, complex harmonics, and piercing treble. |
| 1:09.0 | But if you break it down, it's still just a line. |
| 1:14.5 | A single line describing a vibration in space. |
| 1:19.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:26.6 | My job is to follow that line. I'm so sorry. |
| 1:31.4 | My job is to follow that line. |
| 1:33.6 | Follow that line. |
| 1:36.4 | Follow that line. |
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