Finding Noisy
- Studio
- Mackinnon & Saunders, CBeebies, Chapman Entertainment
- Distributor
- Cbeebies
Synopsis
Raa Raa collects fun noisy objects with his friends, but he doesn't want to share
Characters
Raa Raa, Huffty, Zebby, Topsy, Crocky, Ooo Ooo
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Tim Harper, Geoff Walker
Producing
- Producer
- Phil Chalk
- Executive Producers
- Kay Benbow, Chris Bowden, Jackie Edwards, Mandy Kamester, Greg Lynn, Ian MacKinnon, Peter Saunders
Writing
- Writer
- Jon Groves
Animation
Voices
- Voice
- Bradley Shedden (Raa Raa), Oliver Dillon (Huffty), Mia Hann (Zebby), Eden Jarrett (Topsy), Max Miller (Crocky), Jamie Oram (Ooo Ooo), Lorraine Kelly (Narrator)
Music
- Music
- Alan Coates, Kim Goody
Crew
- Creator
- Curtis Jobling
- Art Director
- Holly Cook
- Production Design
- Curtis Jobling
- Puppet Maintenance
- Patricia Brennan, Anthony Fallows, Naomi Sharpe, Claire Tennant
- Set Dressing/Props
- Claire Lever, John McGuinness
- Production Managers
- Helen Brown, Claire Pugh-Williams
- Assistant Camera
- Rachel Fox
- Lighting Camera
- Richard Dando
- Assistant Lighting Camera
- Daniel Beckett
- Director's Assistant
- Charlotte Day
- Production Coordinator
- Toby Stafford
- Production Assistant
- Pauline Kenny
- Researcher
- Eva Sigurdardottir
Production notes
A stop-frame animation pre-school show with a lovable cast of characters led by Raa Raa, a very little lion who enjoys having lots of noisy fun adventures!
Join Raa Raa and his friends as they go on a journey through the Jingly Jangly Jungle learning and developing their communication skills through the use of Raa Raa's 4Rs:
Developed with speech and language therapists, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion engages with pre-school aged children who, just like Raa Raa, are beginning to master their language and communication skills.
Caroline Hall and Ruth Crowe are HPC Registered Speech and Language Therapists. Between them, they have 35 years of experience in their field. Their current areas of professional practice include working with children with significant special educational needs and promoting the importance of young children's communication development in the general population. They have acted as Early Language Consultants on Raa Raa, with their input mainly at script level. They worked closely with the writing team to incorporate specific features of storytelling, characterization and dialogue that best support children's language learning.
Every episode opens as we zoom into the Jingly Jangly Jungle as narrator Lorraine Kelly talks about what's happening there that day. All the stories are strong, simple and linear with lots of wordplay. The stories are easy to follow and easy to retell. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition play an important role in all episodes linking vocabulary to real-life experiences and actions.
The stories always feature explicit pro-social messages: cooperation, joint problem-solving and appropriate behavior, but above all, there's lots of jingly jangly jungle fun.
Raa Raa was created by Curtis Jobling, who had previously collaborated with Mackinnon & Saunders on "Curious Cow" and "Frankenstein's Cat." He came up with the idea whilst playing a game of "Old MacDonald's Farm" with his children. When they ran out of farm animals they suggested a lion. The inevitable question of "What noise does a lion make?" prompted the response "Raa Raa," and that's where the idea came from.
MacKinnon and Saunders took this central concept and developed it around research carried out by the ICAN Make Chatter Matter campaign, which revealed that approximately 50% of children entering school in the United Kingdom have inadequate speech, language and communication skills.
Join Raa Raa and his friends as they go on a journey through the Jingly Jangly Jungle learning and developing their communication skills through the use of Raa Raa's 4Rs:
Developed with speech and language therapists, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion engages with pre-school aged children who, just like Raa Raa, are beginning to master their language and communication skills.
Caroline Hall and Ruth Crowe are HPC Registered Speech and Language Therapists. Between them, they have 35 years of experience in their field. Their current areas of professional practice include working with children with significant special educational needs and promoting the importance of young children's communication development in the general population. They have acted as Early Language Consultants on Raa Raa, with their input mainly at script level. They worked closely with the writing team to incorporate specific features of storytelling, characterization and dialogue that best support children's language learning.
Every episode opens as we zoom into the Jingly Jangly Jungle as narrator Lorraine Kelly talks about what's happening there that day. All the stories are strong, simple and linear with lots of wordplay. The stories are easy to follow and easy to retell. Rhythm, rhyme, and repetition play an important role in all episodes linking vocabulary to real-life experiences and actions.
The stories always feature explicit pro-social messages: cooperation, joint problem-solving and appropriate behavior, but above all, there's lots of jingly jangly jungle fun.
Raa Raa was created by Curtis Jobling, who had previously collaborated with Mackinnon & Saunders on "Curious Cow" and "Frankenstein's Cat." He came up with the idea whilst playing a game of "Old MacDonald's Farm" with his children. When they ran out of farm animals they suggested a lion. The inevitable question of "What noise does a lion make?" prompted the response "Raa Raa," and that's where the idea came from.
MacKinnon and Saunders took this central concept and developed it around research carried out by the ICAN Make Chatter Matter campaign, which revealed that approximately 50% of children entering school in the United Kingdom have inadequate speech, language and communication skills.