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Jonesy started life as a short play which was produced by a theatre company called Nabokov in summer 2012. At the same time I had been working with Jessica Dromgoole on a play for Radio 3. Jessica asked if I had any ideas for an afternoon drama, I sent her the script of Jonesy, she wrote a pitch which got the thumbs-up and we set about turning it into a radio drama.听听

Jamie Jones is doing his work experience in the 大象传媒 Radio Drama Sound Department. He decides to have a go at making a play himself, telling of his struggle to pass GCSE PE.

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To get an idea of what the 大象传媒 Radio Drama Sound Department was like I spent a day with Jessica and Ali the studio manager listening to some of the thousands of recordings which are kept on the system to build different soundscapes. We went through weather and nature and crowds, squeaks, drips, drums, dipping a rug in a lake - everything really.

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We also asked some of the staff about their favourite effects. Crashing bikes came up a lot. It was brilliant. And then, with a CD of sound cues from Ali, I went off to re-write Jonesy, trying to think how an excitable fifteen-year-old might use them to make his ordinary life sound epic.

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It took a few drafts but that is how Jonesy came about. It is a loveletter to underdogs, to netball, to the One Show鈥檚 Matt Baker and to the 大象传媒 Radio Drama Sound Department. We had a lot of fun with it and I hope you enjoy listening.

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