The roles of the narrator in radio features

Abstract

Although for time and economic reasons radio feature is not as common as other genres, it is a very necessary and useful type of text today. Thanks to it journalists can provide more perspective and better contextualize the facts. To do so, a narrator is required. The aim of this paper is to describe the different roles that narrators can play in radio features. As we will see, this figure must play some mandatory functions, whereas others are optional. Among the mandatory, we fill find the perceptual and narrative functions. The communicative, testimonial and administrative functions are optional. The prevalence of one function or another leads us to several types of narrator.