Abstract

The aim of this article is to show the functions which music can perform in radio report-age. The analysis is based on documentaries created over the past decade by famous Polish reporters, such as Katarzyna Michalak, Cezary Galek, Julia Prus and Hanna Bo-gorya-Zakrzewska together with Ernest Zozuń. Fragments of their works were used as the exemplification of the different roles which soundtrack can perform, such as: to illus-trate, to describe, as well as to complete narration, composition or the characteristics of a situation, people, etc.