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Sound School Podcast

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

Episodes

Total: 359

Two stories, produced in a week by Transom Traveling Workshop students. The first, by Georgia Walker

The first time Rob listened to "A Cow a Day" he thought "What the??!" But then he listened again and

Got Your Ears On?

2020/2/4

Got your ears on? You'll want them as Rob threads his way through a wide variety of clips  that caug

Shereen Goes Quiet

2020/1/21

Shereen Marisol Meraji of Code Switch told me she's sick of her voice -- the authoritative narrator.

Let's face it: Use of the pronoun "I" has gotten out of hand. There's much too much navel gazing and

Two treats for your ears. Stories produced by graduates of the Transom Story Workshop -- Ruby Schwar

The backstory to WGBH's Gabrielle Emanuel's reporting on a hidden past is fascinating. How she found

When you're yelled at. Called a prostitute. Told you're a liar and shameless and malicious... How do

Emily Kwong had never been to Mongolia. She doesn't speak the language. She didn't know her way arou

Scoring Stories: Part 2

2019/10/29

Rob talks specifically about how to bring music in and out of a story. And, then, he takes a stab at

Scoring Stories: Part 1

2019/10/15

How do you score a story with music is one of the most frequent questions, HowSound's Rob Rosenthal

Interviewing For Emotions

2019/10/1

HowSound listeners always seem to want tips on interviewing. Liz Mak of Snap Judgement delivers on t

Jaw-Dropping Clips

2019/9/17

Get your ears on for this episode. Rob presents clips from podcasts that made his jaw drop including

Reporting in the field can be chaos. Anything can happen. NPR host Noel King says that's the best pa

In 2017, producer Sam Greenspan took a leap. He left his producing job at 99% Invisible for... well,

In an effort to try something new, Rob offers another podcast review. This time, "Song Exploder" fro

Despite hours of great material, there are a couple things about Spotify's "Stay Free: The Story of

Who are all those people at the end of an episode of Reply All, given credit for putting it together

When you have guests as famous and interesting at Tan France, Ramy Youseff, Wazina Zondon, Ryan Harr

NPR reporter Uri Berliner breaks from his usual approach to storytelling and finds interviewing his