Exemplar: Series 2: Episode 5

Limelight

BBC

Drama, Fiction

4.4 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Veritas is hit by sophisticated cyber attack, Jess and Maya have to work with DS Gray to identify the attackers and stop them. Will they do it in time to save the company?

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 DS Gray ….. Clare Perkins Jill ….. Tracey Wilkinson Dan ….. Malcom Ridley

Writers: Dan Rebellato, with Ben and Max Ringham 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.
0:31.1	Thank you. can listen to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. Most of the sounds we hear, we don't hear.
0:34.9	Low-level ambient sounds, background noise, other people's chatter. The brain filters them out
0:42.8	to focus only on what we need to hear. After I started working with Jess, I began to notice sounds
0:49.7	that I used to screen out. In the street, I had to consciously not pay attention to the layers of traffic
0:55.9	and talk and trees in the wind and planes in the sky and ground rumble but even then
1:03.8	certain sounds like babies crying gunshots have a have a quality that reaches into you, wherever you are,
1:15.3	right into the heart of you, and could someone turn that alarm off, please?
1:21.6	Security alert. It's a cyber attack. Our systems have been compromised.
1:26.5	Cyber attack? On Veritas? Is that why my computer's not working?
1:30.3	The whole system's in lockdown. We're trying to secure the firewall.
1:33.3	How long are we locked out for?
1:34.3	No idea.
1:35.3	What are they trying to get?
1:36.3	No idea. Would you step away from the computer, please?
1:39.3	What? Sorry. Who are you?
1:41.3	Dan Butler, cyber. Step away, if you don't mind. Alright.
1:45.0	Oh, right.
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