I sm just going to say flat out that this piece, most of it anyway, is good. This is a very interesting topic, however I feel it was a bit to flat and monotone which turned me off a little. It could of used some background music. And I know the narrator is foreign but more coaching could of been done to make the reading a little smoother, not so much because it was unpleasing to the ears, but because it made me feel like the narrator was struggling to much, and listners might pick that up alot and begin to focus on the narrators ability to speak and read english. Overall though this piece is good, just add music.

This, as a short feature, if done well, and kept short, could be a fairly decent short feature. However I feel it was not done properly. First of all, the narrator, Meghan Lamb, does not have the best voice during this piece, she stays monotone, soft spoken, weak sounding, and she read her script in a way that you knew she was reading, that is not always best, one needs to sound somewhat conversation when reading on the radio. As far as narrations goes they were perfectly fine. However the narrations needed to broken up more. I think it went about a minute and a half before she broke up her first narration, she could have broken it up sooner, considering the topic of this piece is not very interesting in itself she needed to make it more interesting by perhaps adding audio or interviews of people describing river road,maybe even in kind of a vox-pop style. Overall, before I go over my word limit, this piece needed more ambient sound, interviews and descriptions of the road from someone other than the narrator, and the narrations needed to be shortend.