RN Documentary: Tale of Two Women
Series: RN Documentaries
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Length: 00:29:28
This is a story of two women, friends since their school days. They are now in their mid 40’s and their lives have moved in opposite directions. Caroline Visser is a travel writer – she’s spent more than half her life exploring this big round world and spinning her experiences into travel books. Louise van den Ijssel lives with her husband in a small village where they devote their lives to the care of 80 animals.
Caroline is always on the go or just back from somewhere. Louise never leaves her house. friendship continues by phone.
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Piece Description
This is a story of two women, friends since their school days. They are now in their mid 40’s and their lives have moved in opposite directions. Caroline Visser is a travel writer – she’s spent more than half her life exploring this big round world and spinning her experiences into travel books. Louise van den Ijssel lives with her husband in a small village where they devote their lives to the care of 80 animals. Caroline is always on the go or just back from somewhere. Louise never leaves her house. friendship continues by phone.
Transcript
C in Marken - use SFX of waves from shark prog
This is part of Marken…possibly fade out on her stories..
….also hear the sea – I like that kind of places, they’re the beg of something - I like the movement of it.
Script (maybe keep their intros running under the intro words of their names in my script)
This is a story of two women, friends since their school days. They are now in their mid 40’s and their lives have moved in opposite directions. Caroline Visser is a travel writer – she’s spent more than half her life exploring this big round world and spinning her experiences into travel books.
C - intro
My name is CV…in A’dam
L – intro
My name is Louise…8 yrs
Louise van den Ijssel lives with her husband in a small house surrounded by a lot of land.
Caroline is always on the go or just back from somewhere. Louise never leaves her house. SFX – TELEPHONE RING...
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Posted on October 12, 2004 at 12:42 PM | Permalink
Review of RN Documentary: Tale of Two Women
This is unlike most things you hear on the radio. It isn't overly processed and there isn't much of a narrative arc. Like a quiet foreign film this piece focuses on character and small moments rather than earthshaking revelations and neatly tied up endings. Whether this piece were five minutes or 60, there's a sense that the effect would be the same: an insight into two women who lead very different lives. Their friendship is almost inconsequential to the piece, aside from establishing why we are hearing from these two women the responsibility is ours to imagine their friendship and to understand its endurance. It's hard to say when to play this-- Its slowness and simplicity certainly lends itself to Sunday afternoon broadcasting.