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
House Of Pod Closes The House
Cat Jaffee and her team put community first and foremost at House of Pod, a local podcast hub in Denver. But, after four years, House of Pod will be without a house — a loss for Denver and podcasting…
00:23:36 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
A Sonic Conjuring (Rerun)
On this archive episode, a fascinating minute of audio — the sound of war and peace reconstructed from the exact end of World War I. Even more fascinating, the producers conjured the sound using audi…
00:12:10 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
The World Orchestra Is Always Playing
Headphones on for this one. Rob marks the passing of the groundbreaking composer and sound ecologist R. Murray Schafer with his colleague and fellow composer, Hildegard Westerkamp. This episode will …
00:28:23 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
From Memoir to Radio Story
Ruby Schwartz pitched a story to Snap Judgement based on a memoir. They gave her the green light. And then she had to figure out how she was going to squeeze a 320-page book into a short radio docume…
00:23:35 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Interviewing for Story
Don't just interview to grab a bunch of information, interview for story and make your work a whole lot stronger. Alix Spiegel of Invisibilia and This American Life explains how.
00:23:10 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
The Megan Tan Way
Megan Tan produced a story about dating during Covid but she didn't record any of the dates. So, what did she do to create scenes? The answer is an unusual production choice that worked incredibly we…
00:22:42 |
Tue 14 Sep 2021
Sounds Easy, But...
Good producers hide the difficulties. They make it all sound easy. Cariad Harmon's "Record Booth" is an excellent example. She seamlessly weaves together narration, interviews, scene tape, music, and…
00:26:41 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and “The Goldstein”
On this episode of HowSound, a wide-ranging chat about writing for audio with one of the masters: Jonathan Goldstein of the Heavyweight podcast from Gimlet. From the importance of feeling what you wr…
00:35:21 |
Tue 17 Aug 2021
Stand-Ups (Rerun)
Narrating a stand-up on location as events unfold in front of your mic is no easy thing but reporter Robert Smith makes it sound like it is. He's a master of the stand-up and he explains how he makes…
00:17:03 |
Tue 03 Aug 2021
Fireworks
Rob Rosenthal has stepped away from teaching the Transom Story Workshop on Cape Cod. To mark the occasion, Rob's put together a fireworks show of great stories from Transom students over the years. W…
01:19:15 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
Narrative Justice
Shapearl Wells says the truest form of journalism lets others speak their own truth. And that's just what she did as host and the main character for "Somebody," a podcast that was a Pulitzer Prize fi…
00:27:27 |
Tue 06 Jul 2021
The Kids Will Have Their Say
The CBC's Mic Drop is a small but mighty podcast amplifying young people's voices "without any adult interruptions," as the kids put it. On this HowSound, Shari Okeke, the show's founder and producer…
00:20:39 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
When Anthropology Meets Audio Storytelling
Creative audio journalism and storytelling is sometimes influenced by film, avant-garde music, and literature. But what about anthropology? Nanna Hauge Kristensen is a radio producer with an anthropo…
00:21:46 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Wrangling Stories With A Focus Sentence
One of the most difficult tasks in writing is keeping a story on target. One way to wrangle an unruly story — or any story, really — is with a focus sentence.
00:14:33 |
Tue 25 May 2021
Tape-Driven Storytelling
There's an old maxim in radio: the tape rules. "According to Need" by Katie Mingle and 99% Invisible is proof that good tape can drive a story. However, Katie says she wasn’t very practiced in produc…
00:27:31 |
Tue 11 May 2021
Dissecting a Good Story, Well Told
One of the best ways to learn how to improve at the craft of audio storytelling is to take a deep listen to good work and dissect it. On this HowSound, I point out some of the best parts of a story a…
00:25:01 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Who Are Those People in Podcast Credits?
The list of names at the end of some podcasts is mind-boggling. Who are these people? What do they do? Antonia Cereijido, Sophia Paliza-Carre, and Audrey Quinn of the "Norco 80" podcast have an answe…
00:25:51 |
Tue 13 Apr 2021
Thoughts On Trailers
Rob's been puzzling over one particular question about trailers for serialized podcasts: What should the relationship, the handshake, if you will, be between the trailer and the top to the first epis…
00:29:01 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Schwartz Is A Verb
You should lie down with your eyes closed for this one! That's because the interviewees in the stories I feature were -- lying down, eyes closed, lights off, candle lit, answering questions. They wer…
00:32:28 |
Tue 16 Mar 2021
Audio Playground
A friend once said "What feels like a groove might actually be a rut." So, how do you get out of your rut? Sarah Geis has an answer: Audio Playground.
00:32:10 |
Tue 02 Mar 2021
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