Exemplar: Series 2: Episode 3

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Audio analysts Jess and Maya are hired to support a police sting operation to infiltrate a suspected drugs gang. A terrified teenager agrees to carry a wire when he goes to collect a package – Jess and Maya have to try to work out how to trap the drug runner, using sound cues from the route he takes.

Exemplar: “an audio recording made by a forensic analyst to recreate the precise audio conditions of a piece of evidence in a criminal or civil case.”

The return of a modern day thriller set in the world of audio forensics. In Exemplar, Gina McKee plays Jess, a forensic analyst born and bred in the North East. Together with her colleague Maya, she undertakes a different sound challenge in every episode. When DS Serena Gray comes into their world, things become a little bit more complicated.

Created by leading sound designers, Ben and Max Ringham, and rooted in factual research. The first series of Exemplar won Best Series at the 2022 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Jess ….. Gina McKee Maya ….. Shvorne Marks Killian ….. Benjamin Cawley DS Gray ….. Clare Perkins Luke Watson ….. Malcolm Ridley Lara ….. Jessica Taylor Writers: Ben and Max Ringham, with Dan Rebellato Audio forensic consultants: James Zjalić, plus Dr Katherine Earnshaw and Bryony Nuttall, forensic specialists in speech and audio at the Forensic Voice Centre Police consultant: Alex Ashton Sound recordist: Alisdair McGregor Production coordinator: Annie Keates Thorpe Sound design: Ben and Max Ringham with Lucinda Mason Brown Original music: Ben and Max Ringham Directors: Polly Thomas and Jade Lewis Executive producer: Joby Waldman

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.2	Hello and welcome to Limelight.
0:07.6	This is series two of Exemplar from BBC Radio 4.
0:11.5	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
0:15.0	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds.
0:23.6	He's a big, heavy lad.
0:26.6	I don't just mean he's large, but he's heavy-footed, you know.
0:30.6	We've got wood floors in our house, and he's always up before me.
0:35.6	So the thing that normally wakes me up is the sound of his footsteps stomping around the house.
0:41.3	You see, we've got thin walls and I hear it all.
0:45.3	I don't even need to get up.
0:47.3	I know exactly what he's doing.
0:50.3	He's in the kitchen and I hear the kettle go and the hum of the radio
0:54.4	and then he takes his tea through to the lounge
0:57.6	and I can hear the spark of his lighter.
1:00.9	He coughs his way through a couple of fags and then the bath starts running.
1:05.5	I wait for the hairdryer before I know the bathroom's free.
1:09.9	So I can never sleep in the mornings. The sounds of a kind of
1:14.7	rhythm, you know. It's the same day in, day out. I've been walking up by in my whole life.
1:26.6	But it's funny,
1:28.9	the thing that wakes me up now is the quiet.
1:33.4	I hated the noise,
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