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
Tandem
On this HowSound, how a story about a skydiving accident nearly drove Anna Rose MacArthur away from radio and what brought her back.
00:16:27 |
Wed 03 Dec 2014
Bionic Pancreas
Rob Stein and Rebecca Davis reveal the backstory to their working relationship as reporter and producer.
00:14:57 |
Wed 19 Nov 2014
Strangers
Lea Thau, host of the "Strangers" podcast on podcasting, journalism, and turning the mic toward yourself.
00:21:01 |
Wed 05 Nov 2014
Early Bloom
On this edition, we follow the path from script to a produced story about plant communication with Peter Frick-Wright and Robbie Carver.
00:19:29 |
Wed 15 Oct 2014
HowSound Live!
A HowSound first: a live recording in front of an audience. The guest is Michael May who talks about his story "Death of a Bangalore Law Student."
00:27:00 |
Thu 02 Oct 2014
Compassionate Release
Natasha Haverty talks about her path from reporting on dairy princess pageants to award-winning investigative stories on prisons for North Country Public Radio in upstate New York.
00:20:18 |
Wed 17 Sep 2014
The Hitchhiker
On this HowSound, Scott Carrier, Alex Chadwick, and the legendary story behind Scott's first radio piece "The Hitchhiker," produced in 1983.
00:35:25 |
Wed 03 Sep 2014
Hard To Say
On this episode, a 2004 "Best New Producer" award-winner from Third Coast and a real tearjerker produced by Bente Birkeland.
00:11:08 |
Wed 27 Aug 2014
Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
The staff at Studio 360 dissects the production, writing, and voicing of their recent broadcast from 1914.
00:15:52 |
Wed 06 Aug 2014
3rd Grade Audio
Stories about drawing, getting old, stuffed animals, and what to do when you get a magnet stuck up your nose. It must be David Green's "Third Grade Audio."
00:16:51 |
Wed 23 Jul 2014
Five Things
If I had to pick a story for a "Top Ten Favorite Student Features," "Five Things" by Matt Largey would be one of them because of the incredible intimacy.
00:12:43 |
Wed 09 Jul 2014
Walking with the Voses
Producer Jakob Lewis on "parachuting in" to produce a story about a funeral and a grieving family.
00:21:29 |
Wed 25 Jun 2014
Love Is A Battlefield
Interviewing tricks and tips from NPR science reporter Alix Spiegel. You'll want to take notes.
00:22:18 |
Wed 11 Jun 2014
Look At Me, Did I Find True Love?
Transom Story Workshop student, Alex Kapelman, with the story of a drummer with a hook for a hand and a 50-year old rock and roll mystery.
00:19:48 |
Wed 28 May 2014
Criminal
The new podcast "Criminal," is well worth a listen. Find out what it's all about from the program's host, Phoebe Judge.
00:15:13 |
Wed 14 May 2014
Risky Reporting at Fukushima
NPR foreign correspondent Anthony Kuhn on the risks involved reporting at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
00:11:18 |
Thu 24 Apr 2014
Typewriters Are Unpleasant
Michael Raphael of Rabbit Ears Audio talks sound effects recording: winter scenes, rockets, cityscapes, and the soul destroying typewriter.
00:12:15 |
Wed 09 Apr 2014
Getting Honest: The Editor, Producer Relationship
Producer Will Coley and editor Viki Merrick offer HowSound listeners a gift by talking about their editorial process, a working relationship that is usually not shared publicly.
00:22:00 |
Wed 26 Mar 2014
Baking Tape
A painful reminiscence about preserving old reel-to-reel tapes by baking them. No, that's not a typo. Baking.
00:12:20 |
Wed 12 Mar 2014
To Scene or Not To Scene
NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg finds on-scene narration canned and phoney and she says ambient sound often gets in the way of a story. Yet, her recent report on buffer zones around …
00:12:15 |
Wed 26 Feb 2014
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