Jeremy Irons delivers the recorded narration and his fruity sonorities have never sounded more dutiful.
On a cassette, I'd record narration that was often out of synch with the action on the screen.
Using CoolEdit audio software, he recorded narration on his computer and e-mailed it as an MP3 file via satellite phone to ABC's server in London.
Mr. Vespoli records narration that is sent electronically to animators in Taiwan, where a three-hour production process, from the initial storyboards to final editing, begins, an assembly-line procedure that creates model figures and authentic-looking backgrounds.
All we're told (in a recorded narration by Dominick Dunne) is that she's from Altoona, Pa., as if that should conjure whatever stereotypes are necessary to make the bit work.
As the boat churns along, a recorded narration discusses everything from the dinosaurs that once roamed to the gradual filling of what is now Lake Mead, after the dam's completion in 1935.
Nearby Christoph Schlingensief, a filmmaker and theater director who died of cancer at 49 last August, represents Germany with a full-dress re-creation of a church and an often anguished recorded narration of his illness and crises of faith, complete with bits of liturgical music and Wagner.
But the most unusual artistic riff on astrophysics will probably be "Space Panorama" (1 and 3 p.m ., Andrew Dawson's one-man show recreating the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon with just a black-draped table, music (Shostakovich's 10th Symphony), recorded narration and his own movements.
Tris Vonna-Michell explores methods of storytelling, combining spoken word performances, recorded narration, slide-shows and printed photographs.
Young returns at the end and a recorded narration attempts to wrap things up, to present meaningful conclusions.
