Sounds Like Radio Episode 04
Gerry was certain that she was going to love Sounds Like Radio.
The council had had more than its fair share of fusspots and bullies, and truckloads of politics. She was starting a new life now and putting it behind her.
When she’d retired it had felt wonderful – free time, endless possibilities.
There had been so much tedium through those decades of office work that held her back.
But her days had become long.
Recently her best friends had moved nearer their grandchildren, and life was quiet.
Sounds Like Radio was anything but quiet.
At one point a man with a dark beard and thick glasses stopped in front of the window to the corridor and stared in at her before going on his way.
She wondered if this was the infamous Kevin.
The cables all done, Gerry helped Cesca (back from a café trip) to take down the rest of Kevin’s set-up from yesterday.
“He leaves these massively complicated rigs up,” Cesca said, “wrongly assuming I’ll reuse them.”
“You’d do yours differently?” Gerry asked.
“Every sound engineer has their quirks, favourite microphones for certain spaces, that sort of thing.
“Kevin feels that his are better than anybody else’s, or rather he frets that a show won’t get the absolute best in technical support if it’s not his rig.”
“But you both have the skills?”
Cesca nodded.
“I don’t want you to think badly of our Kev. He cares.”
“But I have the bottom line in mind. Fees for studio time have been shaved to the bone.
“I’m often asked to record forty minutes or more of audio in a day – that’s a lot.
“Sometimes I find Kevin rerecording a perfectly good scene because he thinks he heard a fly buzzing.
“Then we have to use more studio time but without the fee.”