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NARRATOR: Around and along, in the middle of... somewhere,

lives a little Sound Collector.

Oh, yes... GROANS

..and his best friend, Mole.

Putting in his hearing aids,

the Sound Collector starts to hear the world around him.

WAVE OF SOUND SWELLS

RHYTHMIC CLICKING, MOLE COOS

Ah, the tick tock of his metronome.

TICKING CONTINUES

TICKING STOPS, MOLE SNIFFS

NARRATOR LAUGHS Sorry, Mole. The party's over.

It's time to collect some sounds.

TICKING RESUMES

With Mole, perhaps?

MOLE COOS

NARRATOR CHUCKLES I'll take that as a no.

SWITCH CLICKS

There we are. VOLUME INTENSIFIES

BIRDS CHIRP

Glorious sound.

WATERWHEEL CLANKS

CAR ENGINE STARTS

CHUCKLES

CAR HORN HONKS I think he knows that noise.

Ha-ha! Road trip. The sound of a journey.

BIRD SQUAWKS

To the noise of a busy town.

So many sounds.

BELL TOLLS, BIRDS SQUAWK

WINGS FLAP

Too many sounds.

CHILD LAUGHS

SOUND COLLECTOR SIGHS

Yes, that's better.

CAR HORN HONKS

Uh-oh! DOG SNIFFS

Ha-ha! Dogs are full of the strangest noises.

DOGS SNIFFS, LICKS

SOUND COLLECTOR GIGGLES

SALIVA SPLASHES, SOUND COLLECTOR GROANS

BUTTON CLICKS

BELLS CHIME IN DISTANCE

ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYING

What's that sound?

GASPS

SEAGULL SQUAWKS

Wow. How mysterious.

CLOCKS TICK, MUSIC CONTINUES

What is this place?

CLOCKS TICK

Oh! It's full of clocks.

It must be a clock museum.

CLOCKS TICK

WHISPERS: Too busy to notice the Sound Collector.

TICKING CONTINUES

PENDULUM TICKS RHYTHMICALLY

Yes, like the beat of a heart.

HEARTBEAT THUMPING

CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMES

Hm. Where did that funny noise come from?

CLOCKS TICK

SIGHS

CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMES

There! A bird!

Oh, it's gone again.

Ha-ha!

When he wants a sound, he never gives up.

Whoa! CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMES

Ooh, steady! SOUND COLLECTOR GIGGLES

SIGHS

GRUNTS

ALL CLOCKS CHIME Wow.

Listen to that!

CLOCKS CHIME, TICK AND CUCKOO

CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMES Ha-ha! And cuckoo to you, too.

Aw, Mole's favourite. But where is she?

METAL CLINKS

Come on, Mole!

SIGHS Ah!

BELL RINGS ON TAPE

NARRATOR LAUGHS Yes! Dinner is served.

CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMES Oh, here she is.

MOLE SNIFFS

GRUNTS

And what a tasty dinner it is, too.

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