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
Josh: Growing Up With Tourette’s
Happy Birthday to Teenage Diaries! To mark the occasion and the production of five updated stories, HowSound features a story dissection with producer Joe Richman recorded in 2009.
00:36:48 |
Wed 08 May 2013
Recording in Remote Locations
Headed out to report in a faraway place? Dan Grossman says "Be prepared." Dan shares intriguing sounds and important field preparation tips on this HowSound.
00:14:33 |
Wed 10 Apr 2013
My Kingdom For Some Structure
Producer Bradley Campbell says story structure is a like a map, it shows you were to go. For this episode of HowSound, Bradley drew story structures on napkins (really) and we dissect his drawings.
00:13:44 |
Wed 27 Mar 2013
Generation Putin
International reporting is an order of magnitude more challenging than local reporting. Producers Sarah Partnow & Sarah Stuteville talk about the travails of overseas reporting in the former Soviet U…
00:21:16 |
Wed 13 Mar 2013
What If There Was No Destiny?
If only there was a quadratic equation for ethics, right? Plug in the variables and the equation spits out the answers. No such luck which means we've got to talk it through, like we do on this episo…
00:20:24 |
Wed 27 Feb 2013
Curious City
"Curious City" loves the local. Hear how this project at WBEZ brings listeners into the making of radio and on-line content.
00:14:22 |
Wed 13 Feb 2013
Three Records from Sundown
Producer Charles Maynes crafted the perfect tone for his documentary on singer Nick Drake called "Three Records from Sundown." It's almost as though Drake and his producer, Joe Boyd, were in the stud…
00:33:25 |
Wed 30 Jan 2013
Tiny Spark
"Tiny Spark" is an impressive new podcast from Amy Costello. Amy produces in-depth investigative stories about non-profits and foundations.
00:25:35 |
Wed 16 Jan 2013
The Tale of Lot 180
WLRN reporter Kenny Malone offers his strategy for creative storytelling: a clever central question, story motion, and place. This episode features Kenny's ear catching story about Florida's Unclaime…
00:19:59 |
Wed 02 Jan 2013
‘Til Death Do Us Part
Producers Sara Archambault and Heather Radke talk about how they responded when characters in stories they produced died.
00:29:14 |
Wed 19 Dec 2012
Dear Craigslist: I Have A Small Swastika Tattoo and I Want It Off
On the radio, why don't we hear more conversations with interesting people? Emily Hsiao's radio story, "Leaving A Mark," is just that. You'll want to listen twice.
00:20:45 |
Wed 05 Dec 2012
The Burning Question
The interview may be the core of what we do as radio producers. Who better to talk about interviewing than Audie Cornish who says she conducts fifteen interviews a week for NPR's All Things Considere…
00:16:56 |
Wed 21 Nov 2012
Jad’s Brain
We're goin' in! Grab your earbuds and don your spelunking light. Our destination? Jad Abumrad's brain. Jad's a co-host and the producer of Radiolab, a science (and more) program produced at WNYC. Thi…
00:17:06 |
Wed 07 Nov 2012
The Seance
Boo! Here's your Halloween edition of HowSound featuring "The Seance" by Bob Carlson.
00:26:27 |
Thu 25 Oct 2012
The Green Lawns of Texas
Avoiding the pitfalls of "parachute journalism" with Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark.
00:24:17 |
Wed 10 Oct 2012
A Trip to the Dentist
You'll probably get dizzy listening to "A Trip to the Dentist," a legendary, psychedelic story from Larry Massett.
00:21:19 |
Wed 26 Sep 2012
Alleged Illegal Searches
Criminal justice reporter Ailsa Chang on her duPont-Columbia award winning story for WNYC.
00:21:54 |
Wed 12 Sep 2012
Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk
Pejk Malinovksy on producing audio tours including Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk
00:12:34 |
Wed 05 Sep 2012
She Sees Your Every Move
Finally. A LONG overdue HowSound on scoring --- using music in a story. I dissect Jonathan Mitchell's use of scoring in his provocative story "She Sees Your Every Move."
00:22:47 |
Wed 22 Aug 2012
Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker
I hope you're not squeamish. On this HowSound, I take a scalpel to a profile on papermaker Joanne Rosser. Let's peel back the surface of the story to reveal its narrative and production innards.
00:16:17 |
Wed 08 Aug 2012
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