

Sound School Podcast
Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org
The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
Episodes
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Oct 15, 2014 • 19min
Early Bloom
On this edition, we follow the path from script to a produced story about plant communication with Peter Frick-Wright and Robbie Carver.

Oct 2, 2014 • 27min
HowSound Live!
A HowSound first: a live recording in front of an audience. The guest is Michael May who talks about his story "Death of a Bangalore Law Student."

Sep 17, 2014 • 20min
Compassionate Release
Natasha Haverty talks about her path from reporting on dairy princess pageants to award-winning investigative stories on prisons for North Country Public Radio in upstate New York.

Sep 3, 2014 • 35min
The Hitchhiker
On this HowSound, Scott Carrier, Alex Chadwick, and the legendary story behind Scott's first radio piece "The Hitchhiker," produced in 1983.

Aug 27, 2014 • 11min
Hard To Say
On this episode, a 2004 "Best New Producer" award-winner from Third Coast and a real tearjerker produced by Bente Birkeland.

Aug 6, 2014 • 16min
Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
The staff at Studio 360 dissects the production, writing, and voicing of their recent broadcast from 1914.

Jul 23, 2014 • 17min
3rd Grade Audio
Stories about drawing, getting old, stuffed animals, and what to do when you get a magnet stuck up your nose. It must be David Green's "Third Grade Audio."

Jul 9, 2014 • 13min
Five Things
If I had to pick a story for a "Top Ten Favorite Student Features," "Five Things" by Matt Largey would be one of them because of the incredible intimacy.

Jun 25, 2014 • 21min
Walking with the Voses
Producer Jakob Lewis on "parachuting in" to produce a story about a funeral and a grieving family.

Jun 11, 2014 • 22min
Love Is A Battlefield
Interviewing tricks and tips from NPR science reporter Alix Spiegel. You'll want to take notes.