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Sound School Podcast

The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.

Episodes

Total: 359

Compassionate Release

2014/9/17

Natasha Haverty talks about her path from reporting on dairy princess pageants to award-winning inve

The Hitchhiker

2014/9/3

On this HowSound, Scott Carrier, Alex Chadwick, and the legendary story behind Scott's first radio p

Hard To Say

2014/8/27

On this episode, a 2004 "Best New Producer" award-winner from Third Coast and a real tearjerker prod

The staff at Studio 360 dissects the production, writing, and voicing of their recent broadcast from

3rd Grade Audio

2014/7/23

Stories about drawing, getting old, stuffed animals, and what to do when you get a magnet stuck up y

Five Things

2014/7/9

If I had to pick a story for a "Top Ten Favorite Student Features," "Five Things" by Matt Largey wou

Walking with the Voses

2014/6/25

Producer Jakob Lewis on "parachuting in" to produce a story about a funeral and a grieving family.

Love Is A Battlefield

2014/6/11

Interviewing tricks and tips from NPR science reporter Alix Spiegel. You'll want to take notes.

Transom Story Workshop student, Alex Kapelman, with the story of a drummer with a hook for a hand an

Criminal

2014/5/14

The new podcast "Criminal," is well worth a listen. Find out what it's all about from the program's

NPR foreign correspondent Anthony Kuhn on the risks involved reporting at the Fukushima nuclear powe

Michael Raphael of Rabbit Ears Audio talks sound effects recording: winter scenes, rockets, cityscap

Producer Will Coley and editor Viki Merrick offer HowSound listeners a gift by talking about their e

Baking Tape

2014/3/12

A painful reminiscence about preserving old reel-to-reel tapes by baking them. No, that's not a typo

To Scene or Not To Scene

2014/2/26

NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg finds on-scene narration canned and phoney and she

Dear Birth Mother

2014/2/12

On this edition of HowSound, a 2005 Third Coast Festival award-winner from Long Haul Productions abo

Recording Not By The Book

2014/1/29

Tight budgets, technological advances, and the impulse to experiment are leading some producers to r

The Hospital Always Wins

2014/1/16

Laura Starecheski should win a radio endurance award. Laura tells the story of her decade -- ten yea

Three radio greats -- Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall -- explore the sound of Englan

The Last of the Iron Lungs

2013/12/18

Julia Scott says "participant observation" is a valuable reporting tool, even if it means climbing i