The difference is palpable on screen: Mr. Bourdain is both more relaxed and more engaged, his narration is more cohesive (and even moving), his barbed observations have more force.
With his jargon-free narration, engaging manner and puckish looks, the series guide, Dr. David Suzuki, a professor of zoology at the University of British Columbia, becomes the latest star of public broadcasting.
But that technique risks stopping the audience engaging with their narrations of their lives and, dramatically worse, it makes one lose interest in how those narratives might juxtapose with each other.
It helps, too, that her narration is engaging and tartly comic.
Students could use a voice memo recording tool such as those found on smartphones to demonstrate storytelling skills, engaging listeners through strong oral narration techniques like intonation, emphasis and tone.
This does not imply that poetry is illogical or lacks narration, but rather that poetry is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process.
Narration means that you're taking an active part in engaging your audience and performing the narrative.
Six stories, in fact, each based on a different show, with voice narration and light interactivity geared towards engaging children in reading.
Plato steps in and out of the play's flashback structure, engaging with Socrates or, standing aside, offering a retrospective narration to an unnamed pupil who is unmistakably the young Aristotle.
