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
Dear Birth Mother
On this edition of HowSound, a 2005 Third Coast Festival award-winner from Long Haul Productions about a transracial adoption.
00:32:58 |
Wed 12 Feb 2014
Recording Not By The Book
Tight budgets, technological advances, and the impulse to experiment are leading some producers to record "not by the book." Does it work?
00:17:12 |
Wed 29 Jan 2014
The Hospital Always Wins
Laura Starecheski should win a radio endurance award. Laura tells the story of her decade -- ten years! -- of research and production on "The Hospital Always Wins."
00:21:07 |
Thu 16 Jan 2014
Hark! The Acoustic World of Elizabethan England
Three radio greats -- Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall -- explore the sound of England 400 years ago along with our modern soundscape.
00:55:48 |
Thu 02 Jan 2014
The Last of the Iron Lungs
Julia Scott says "participant observation" is a valuable reporting tool, even if it means climbing into an "iron lung" which looks like something only Dracula would lay in.
00:13:24 |
Wed 18 Dec 2013
The New New Sheriff in Town
Headphones are mandatory for this episode of HowSound. Kathy Tu's second radio story ever will set your ears ablaze.
00:09:59 |
Wed 04 Dec 2013
Just Plumb Gone
Mary Helen Miller encourages station-based producers to "Sneak out the back door with the tape recorder and make something good."
00:17:42 |
Wed 20 Nov 2013
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
David Schulman usually produces non-narrated stories on music. Recently, he stepped out of his usual style to produce a narrated science story focused on the acoustics of reproducing the sound of a S…
00:16:30 |
Wed 06 Nov 2013
This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
Yowei Shaw amassed 325 pages of transcripts for her This American Life story on Eritrean hostages and the reporter who uncovered the story. And that was just the beginning of Yowei's long, grueling p…
00:16:32 |
Thu 24 Oct 2013
Hafid is Free
"Hafid is Free" is a solid example of what a story needs when it doesn't have a narrative hook.
00:08:41 |
Wed 09 Oct 2013
Heyoon
A recent episode of "99% Invisible" employed a dramatic recreation to bring the past to life. Producers Alex Goldman and Sam Greenspan explain how they did it.
00:14:03 |
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Nodding Syndrome
Producer Matt Kielty wonders about "objectification" and advancing a career reporting on the suffering of others.
00:16:15 |
Wed 11 Sep 2013
Autism Grows Up
Capital Public Radio's Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross (no caps) are tasked with changing the sound of the station's documentary unit.
00:19:30 |
Wed 28 Aug 2013
Stylus
New producers Conor Gillies and Zack Ezor get it right, right out of the gate with their documentary "Stylus" on music and sound.
00:16:32 |
Wed 14 Aug 2013
Reporting Trauma After the Boston Marathon
Interviewing traumatized people is no easy task. Zach Hirsch, a radio producer, and Bruce Shapiro, Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, offer suggestions for treating victims with r…
00:22:34 |
Wed 31 Jul 2013
Just Another Fish Story
Molly Menschel's radio story about a beached whale in Lubec, Maine is so good, you'll be jealous of her storytelling and production skills. In fact, you might not want to listen.
00:12:12 |
Wed 17 Jul 2013
Love + Radio
Nick van der Kolk on "auteurship" and the incredibly unique sound of the "Love + Radio" podcast.
00:18:49 |
Wed 03 Jul 2013
Witness to an Execution
"Witness to an Execution," another addition to my Top 10 list of radio documentaries. "Witness" was produced by Stacy Abromson and Dave Isay in 2000. The prison warden and staff of a prison in Texas …
00:24:41 |
Thu 20 Jun 2013
52hz
Lilly Sullivan relates the curious tale of "52 Hertz," the whale who sings at the "wrong" frequency.
00:17:05 |
Wed 05 Jun 2013
Balance and The Minnesota Marriage Amendment
Reporter Sasha Aslanian on balanced reporting during Minnesota's gay marriage debate.
00:24:42 |
Wed 22 May 2013
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