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Episode: 0228 - Appropriate emotional tone in the news
Description: 0228 - Appropriate emotional tone in the newsYou would appear to be a robot or psychopath if you read every story with the same amount of ‘tone of voice’ – from a landslide burying children in a school to a tap-dancing ferret. You need to give appropriate emotional weight to the script, depending on its content and context.  Although you should not be wailing in grief over a royal death, or announce with anger the latest unemployment figures, you can and should usually show some understanding of the significance of the story in your tone of...