Sound School Podcast
The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 364
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
Dead Mom Talking
Rachel Matlow had a head slappingly simple idea: make a conversation out of the interviews she recorded with her mom after her mom died. But, simple it was not. Rachel explains the backstory on her T…
00:22:43 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
Reporting On Whiteness
The series "Seeing White" is essential listening. John Biewen reports on whiteness and white people for his podcast "Scene on Radio."
00:14:21 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Intimate Interviewing
How does Lu Olkowski get such intimate interview tape? She shares some of her approaches including a couple that are a bit unorthodox, I'd say.
00:18:31 |
Tue 07 Mar 2017
Rethinking A Podcast Top To Bottom
After 5 years producing a successful podcast, Aaron Hendkin & Wendel Jenkins of WYPR's "Out of the Blocks" have decided to remake the show. On this first of 2 episodes, they introduce us to the podca…
00:14:36 |
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Sound As The Protagonist
Take a deep sonic dive as we listen to "Jump Blue," by Nicolas Jackson and Afonica. Remember to hold your breath.
00:20:15 |
Tue 07 Feb 2017
Shaking Up Storytelling Formulas
Did Robert Smith of Planet Money go to far to make the uninteresting interesting? Robert talks about using "Oblique Strategies" for reporting an arcane topic in economics.
00:18:09 |
Tue 24 Jan 2017
Buried Treasures, Again
Get your headphones ready and listen! Two buried treasures from Transom students. A story about domestic violence. Another about eels.
00:22:03 |
Tue 10 Jan 2017
Morphing Print Essays Into Radio
Some print essays make great radio. Jay Cowit, Technical Director for The Takeaway, tells us how they recently did it.
00:13:40 |
Tue 27 Dec 2016
Composing Music For Stories On This American Life
A lot of the music This American Life uses to score stories is composed for the program. Producer Jonathan Menjivar and musician Matthias Bossi of Stellwagen Symphonette talk about the music that wor…
00:14:18 |
Tue 13 Dec 2016
On Your Mark. Get Set. Start Your Story.
There are no rules about starting a story but, there are some common approaches. Jessica Terrell dissects several story-starting tricks she used in the first episode of Offshore, the podcast about th…
00:15:52 |
Tue 29 Nov 2016
The Blindsiding Twist
Story twists are the hallmark of Love + Radio. Nick van der Kolk dissects the blind-siding reveal in "A Girl of Ivory."
00:19:22 |
Tue 15 Nov 2016
Story Structure: The ‘e’
Rob dissects an episode of 99% Invisible to reveal a common but effective story structure -- the 'e.'
00:26:19 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Narrating To An Audience
Outside/In host Sam Evans Brown narrated the first few minutes of an episode of the podcast just fine -- really well, in fact. Then he switched gears and brought two colleagues into the studio to tel…
00:18:46 |
Tue 18 Oct 2016
The Evolution Of A Story
A son. A father. And an alien abduction. What more do you need to know?!
00:21:30 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Doorstepping: The Uninvited Interview
Approaching a stranger on the street for an interview, pretty easy. "Doorstepping," knocking on the door of a house or entering a business for an interview uninvited, not so easy. Producer Nina Perry…
00:13:25 |
Tue 20 Sep 2016
Subjective Reporting
I dare you to listen to this story from Ryan Sweikert and not be moved. A perfect example of what he calls "subjective reporting."
00:14:44 |
Tue 06 Sep 2016
How Not To Write For Radio
There's blood on the floor. Rob skewers the writing in one of his first-ever radio stories to reveal how not to write.
00:21:07 |
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Sound Matters
Not everything has to sound the same. British/Danish producer Tim Hinman, of Third Ear, talks about tone and his podcast Sound Matters.
00:20:03 |
Tue 09 Aug 2016
Hiroshima Revisited
If you want to re-broadcast a doc from 20 years ago but don't like a lot of the writing, the mix, and the voicing, what do you do? If you're John Biewen, you re-do it! On this episode--the old and th…
00:45:20 |
Tue 26 Jul 2016
Radio Silence
Silence is a radio no-no. But what if you want to produce a story where the central focus is silence? Some answers on this HowSound.
00:11:34 |
Tue 12 Jul 2016
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