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Sound School Podcast

Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

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

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11:18

Risky Reporting at Fukushima

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2014/04/24

NPR foreign correspondent Anthony Kuhn on the risks involved reporting at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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12:15

Typewriters Are Unpleasant

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2014/04/09

Michael Raphael of Rabbit Ears Audio talks sound effects recording: winter scenes, rockets, cityscapes, and the soul destroying typewriter.

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22:00

Getting Honest: The Editor, Producer Relationship

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2014/03/26

Producer Will Coley and editor Viki Merrick offer HowSound listeners a gift by talking about their editorial process, a working relationship that is usually not shared publicly.

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12:20

Baking Tape

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2014/03/12

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

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12:15

To Scene or Not To Scene

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2014/02/26

NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg finds on-scene narration canned and phoney and she says ambient sound often gets in the way of a story. Yet, her recent report on buffer zones around health clinics proves otherwise.

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32:58

Dear Birth Mother

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2014/02/12

On this edition of HowSound, a 2005 Third Coast Festival award-winner from Long Haul Productions about a transracial adoption.

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17:12

Recording Not By The Book

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2014/01/29

Tight budgets, technological advances, and the impulse to experiment are leading some producers to record "not by the book." Does it work?

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21:07

The Hospital Always Wins

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2014/01/16

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."

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55:48

Hark! The Acoustic World of Elizabethan England

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2014/01/02

Three radio greats -- Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall -- explore the sound of England 400 years ago along with our modern soundscape.

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13:24

The Last of the Iron Lungs

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2013/12/18

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.

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09:59

The New New Sheriff in Town

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2013/12/04

Headphones are mandatory for this episode of HowSound. Kathy Tu's second radio story ever will set your ears ablaze.

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17:42

Just Plumb Gone

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2013/11/20

Mary Helen Miller encourages station-based producers to "Sneak out the back door with the tape recorder and make something good."

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16:30

The Elusive Digital Stradivarius

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2013/11/06

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 Stradivarius electronically.

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16:32

This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life

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2013/10/24

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 production process assembling the story.

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08:41

Hafid is Free

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2013/10/09

"Hafid is Free" is a solid example of what a story needs when it doesn't have a narrative hook.

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14:03

Heyoon

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2013/09/25

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.

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16:15

Nodding Syndrome

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2013/09/11

Producer Matt Kielty wonders about "objectification" and advancing a career reporting on the suffering of others.

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19:30

Autism Grows Up

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2013/08/28

Capital Public Radio's Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross (no caps) are tasked with changing the sound of the station's documentary unit.

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16:32

Stylus

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2013/08/14

New producers Conor Gillies and Zack Ezor get it right, right out of the gate with their documentary "Stylus" on music and sound.

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22:34

Reporting Trauma After the Boston Marathon

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2013/07/31

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 respect.

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