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Music: lyrics between music notes, unknown song titles omitted and music described. BBC: colour is the preferred way to separate speakers, dashes are legacy and used with white text, single quotes mark out-of-vision speakers, and ttm:agent metadata may carry speaker information. Failure modes. Labelling every sound clutters the 20 cps budget; a wrong name given too early leaks plot (Netflix [man]/[woman] rule). Limitations. Netflix and BBC differ (brackets and hyphens vs colour); pick one per platform. Version/date. Pages as fetched 2026-10-24. 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