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Sound School Podcast — 383 episodes
Witness to an Execution
Jad and FayFay Talk "Fela Kuti: Fear No Man"
Revisiting: Nausea and Forehead Mics - Reporting in Zero Gravity
Salman Khan’s March to “More Muslim”
Silence Is Worth Your Time
Revisiting: A Cow A Day
Dialing In the Audio Flux Podcast
The Naked Pitch
Revisiting - Don't Write, Tell
Reporting on Emotions in South Africa
What If the Main Character Narrates?
Revisiting: Two From the Road in Nashville
It’s Magic
Revisiting: We Need More Words to Describe Audio Stories
Seeking Small True Things
Revisiting: Hang A Picture In Front of the Microphone
When Funny Points to Truth
Revisiting: Fill Your Notebook with Color Notes
Host Sits Down With a Reporter
Writing Like TV in a Podcast
Fill Your Pockets With Endings
Sound Design - Don't Say Rabbit, See Rabbit
Revisiting: Interviewing Shy People
Asking Dad Dicey Questions
Revisiting - Think of a Radio Station (or Podcast) as a Musical Instrument
Writing Makes All the Difference - Beautifully Braiding Scenes, Stand-Ups, and Narration
Writing Makes All the Difference: The Episode Handshake
Revisiting - A Trip to the Dentist
Writing Makes All the Difference, Part 1
Revisiting: My Kingdom for Some Structure
Champions of Old Radio
Beware the Chicken Bomb
Amen, Chenjerai (Bonus Episode)
Amen, Chenjerai
Revisiting: The Longest Shortest Time
The Layered Approach - Interviewing for Scenes
The Backstory to "Our Ancestors Were Messy"
All Hands On Deck - NPR and the Nixon White House
Revisiting: First, Tell Them an Anecdote
Dissection - Daniel Alarcón's Writing Maneuvers
Fingers Crossed, Twice
Please Keep WCAI Right Where It Is
Keep the Universal in Mind for Local Stories
Revisiting: A Stranger With a Microphone
Revisiting: Who Are You As a Storyteller?
Retreat! And Make Stories with Friends
We Do It For the Ears, Right?
To Swear or Not to Swear in Narration
Gaining Access While Preserving Anonymity in Medical Settings
Revisiting: Robot Babies and Radio Luck
Revisiting: Magical Realism in Radio
An Audio Field Trip
Structure Interviews Like a Good Story
Tips to Elevate Your Reporting and Storytelling from Ira Glass
Safety First: Recording with Actors for an LGBTQ Story in Uganda
Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative…and Ethical?
Introducing Sound Judgment
Thanks, NPR. That Was Satisfying.
The Um, A Deep Dive
Revisiting: Should I or Shouldn’t I — Recording in Stereo
Small, Random, and Meaningful
For the Love of Radio, Get Out of the Studio!
A Triple Whammy
Tracking Partners
Revisiting: Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and The Goldstein
Which Is the Better Open?
Reporting Out at the Edge
Mixing Fiction with Non-Fiction
Interview Strangers on the Street, Make a Podcast
Revisiting: Remembering Studs
Pleasing to the Ear
Salt at 50!
Revisiting: Dead Mom Talking
So You STILL Want to Start a Podcast, Eh?
Going Behind the Mic On Climate Change Reporting
Revisiting: Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
Next-level Scoring
Lean In and Listen Like It’s Music
Revisiting: Avoiding Pesky Sound Problems
The Best Audio Storytelling According to Pushkin
Happy 15th Sound School!
What's Grabbed Antonia's Ears?
The Fingerprint of Chris Brookes
Producing a Non-narrated Obituary
What’s Next for Munira?
Still More Darts and Laurels
Think of a Radio Station (or Podcast) as a Musical Instrument
Dear Birth Mother
Studs Terkel Meets Brian Eno in the Woods
This is Good, But I Have a Question
Recording Sound Design in the Field
Why Two Narrators When One Will Suffice?
Caves and Bears and Neanderthal Flutes - Stories from Slovenia
Writing An Audio Essay
Story Dissection: When the Lede Gives It All Away
We Need More Words To Describe Audio Stories
Hand Over the Cash?
Getting Honest —The Editor, Producer Relationship
Darts and Laurels Minus the Darts
Two Years of Reporting Whittled Down to Fourteen Minutes – Elissa Nadworny
Wolves, Horses, Boars, Birds, and Bugs
Tips For Interviewing Shy People (Especially Nuns)
Nausea, Forehead Mics, and Immersion
Share the Script?
Delicately Revealing Your Identity in the Story
Who Am I To Be Here?
Producing YA Fiction
Collaboration Is the Only Way Forward
More Darts And Laurels
Thinking in Scenes
Remember to Breathe!
Engage Listeners To Build Trust
Radio Silence (Rerun)
Audio Message in a Bottle
Al Letson’s Covenant with Listeners About True Crime Stories
Navigating Tricky Story Dynamics
So You Want To Start A Podcast, Eh?
Exquisitely Challenging: Reporting on Suicide
Darts and Laurels
House Of Pod Closes The House
A Sonic Conjuring (Rerun)
The World Orchestra Is Always Playing
From Memoir to Radio Story
Interviewing for Story
The Megan Tan Way
Sounds Easy, But...
Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and “The Goldstein”
Stand-Ups (Rerun)
Fireworks
Narrative Justice
The Kids Will Have Their Say
When Anthropology Meets Audio Storytelling
Wrangling Stories With A Focus Sentence
Tape-Driven Storytelling
Dissecting a Good Story, Well Told
Who Are Those People in Podcast Credits?
Thoughts On Trailers
Schwartz Is A Verb
Audio Playground
Gas Mask? Check. Bullet Proof Vest? Check...What to Wear When the Reporting Gets Dangerous
Eavesdropping on the Insurrection
Perk Up Your Ears!
Bow Glacier Asserting Its Existence
How Do You Know a Story is Worthy of a Podcast Series?
Show, Don't Tell
Nancy Was Here
Things I Like
Portraying Character
Why So Chatty, Alex Blumberg?
A Night of Ear Candy
The Intersection of Folklore, Radio Journalism and a Pear
The Squirm Test
Effective Sound Effects
Pandemic Diary
Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
Walking In The Margins Of Journalism Ethics
Leave In The Question
A Feast For Your Ears
The Recesses Of Jay's Mind
AfroQueer And Podcasting In Kenya
What Do You Stand For?
Gathering Scene Tape While Reporting From A Closet
Take A Walk With Your Mic
Poetry As Narration
Two Student Stories About Music
Being Present With A Microphone
Got Your Ears On?
Shereen Goes Quiet
When The Story Is About You But Not About You
Pigeons and Octopuses – Two Transom Story Workshop Stories
Reporting On The Reverse Freedom Riders
Staying The Course In A Tough Interview
Navigating Mongolia With Fixers
Scoring Stories: Part 2
Scoring Stories: Part 1
Interviewing For Emotions
Jaw-Dropping Clips
Anything Can Happen. That's The Best Part.
Bellwether's Speculative Journalism
HowSound Reviews "Song Exploder"
HowSound Reviews "Stay Free: The Story Of The Clash"
The Hidden Work Of An Associate Producer
First, Tell Them An Anecdote
When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Asking Questions
Some Fav And Not-So-Fav Sounds
Getting Inside Someone Else’s Skin
Eight Things I Like About 10 Things That Scare Me
Nuggets
How Sruthi Tracks
An Editor’s Fingerprints
All The Sound We Can Not Hear
Two From The Road In Nashville
A Sonic Conjuring
Twitter Vox
Taking Control Of The Music
Your Skull Is An Ear
Making Sense Of A Pile Of Tape
Enticing Listeners To Press Play Again
These Are A Few Of My Favorite (Recent) Clips
You Just Won’t Know If You Don’t Ask
Fictional Sounds For A Fictional Story
The Podcast Mindset: Part 2
The Podcast Mindset: Part 1
Color Notes
Three Stories, Marfa Style
Story Endings
Anatomy Of A Scene
A Rockin’ Start
Three Student Stories Produced In Only A Week
Hang A Picture In Front Of The Mic
25th Anniversary Of “Ghetto Life 101”
Recording Binaurally
Finding Chenjerai The Storyteller
Police Ride-Alongs
The Value Of A Sympathetic Character
Sports Stories That Work
Stopping A Podcast
A Question To Start A Story?
Journalism Of Empathy
Reporting On Traumatic Events
Don’t Write, Tell
Two Traveling Workshop Stories
Radio Is A Visual Medium
Avoiding Cheesy Sound Design
Stepping In With The Facts
The Broken Narrative
Sounding Like Yourself
Sound Design Basics
Making First-Person Stories Stand Out
Fact-Checking “A Life Sentence”
Ready, Set, Radio Race!
Let The Tape Sing And Other Lessons From A Filmmaker Turned Podcaster
A Few Of My Favorite Things
Ask Uncomfortable Questions
Improvisation And Structure
Stories That Are Impossible To Pitch
On Interviewing A Racist
When A Good Idea For A Podcast Is A Bad Idea For A Podcast
Avoiding Pesky Recording Problems
Dead Mom Talking
Reporting On Whiteness
Intimate Interviewing
Rethinking A Podcast Top To Bottom
Sound As The Protagonist
Shaking Up Storytelling Formulas
Buried Treasures, Again
Morphing Print Essays Into Radio
Composing Music For Stories On This American Life
On Your Mark. Get Set. Start Your Story.
The Blindsiding Twist
Story Structure: The ‘e’
Narrating To An Audience
The Evolution Of A Story
Doorstepping: The Uninvited Interview
Subjective Reporting
How Not To Write For Radio
Sound Matters
Hiroshima Revisited
Radio Silence
Short Is Beautiful
Should Stations Produce Podcasts?
The Ethics Of Trespassing And Secret Recording
Show The Girls The Snakes
First-Person Reporting
Still More Buried Treasures: Student Work
Tinkering With Sound Design
Producing Personal Pieces
What Do You Do When The Rooster Dies?
Should I Or Shouldn’t I: Recording In Stereo
Magical Realism In Radio
Interviewing With Your Skeptical Brain
Frank Langfitt’s Unusual Voicing Method
What’s Changed?: The Power Of Follow-Up Stories
More Buried Treasures: Two Student Stories
The Biggest Story In The World
Small Is Beautiful
Writing Out Of Tape
Frustrated Artist Finds Way To Make Art
Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown with Deb Amos and Noah Adams
Buried Treasures: Four Student Pieces
Story Dissection: Dead Animal Man
Finding The Story When You Know Too Much
Producing Science Stories With A Scientist
Remixing The Music
A Mom, A Transgender Daughter, And A Podcast
A Matter Of Ethics
Radio Luck And The Gift Of Character Change
Foils And Other First Person Tricks
The Path To Primary Care
Radio Writing With Alex Chadwick
Concerning Breakfast
Death, Sex And Money With Anna Sale
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story
Reporting Dark Matters
Barf Draft With An iPhone
Revisiting Criminal
Burroughs at 100
Australia!
Here I Am And Here Be Danger
Tandem
Bionic Pancreas
Strangers
Early Bloom
HowSound Live!
Compassionate Release
The Hitchhiker
Hard To Say
Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
3rd Grade Audio
Five Things
Walking with the Voses
Love Is A Battlefield
Look At Me, Did I Find True Love?
Criminal
Risky Reporting at Fukushima
Typewriters Are Unpleasant
Getting Honest: The Editor, Producer Relationship
Baking Tape
To Scene or Not To Scene
Dear Birth Mother
Recording Not By The Book
The Hospital Always Wins
Hark! The Acoustic World of Elizabethan England
The Last of the Iron Lungs
The New New Sheriff in Town
Just Plumb Gone
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
Hafid is Free
Heyoon
Nodding Syndrome
Autism Grows Up
Stylus
Reporting Trauma After the Boston Marathon
Just Another Fish Story
Love + Radio
Witness to an Execution
52hz
Balance and The Minnesota Marriage Amendment
Josh: Growing Up With Tourette’s
Recording in Remote Locations
My Kingdom For Some Structure
Generation Putin
What If There Was No Destiny?
Curious City
Three Records from Sundown
Tiny Spark
The Tale of Lot 180
‘Til Death Do Us Part
Dear Craigslist: I Have A Small Swastika Tattoo and I Want It Off
The Burning Question
Jad’s Brain
The Seance
The Green Lawns of Texas
A Trip to the Dentist
Alleged Illegal Searches
Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk
She Sees Your Every Move
Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker
One Species at a Time
The Secret
Stand-Ups
Two Cape Cods
The Gift That Was Brought To Us
Happy Birthday Studs!
Fact Check This
Krulwich on Gorilla Cage Drama
A Dual Narrative
Chorus of Refuge
The Pirate
Different, Not Disabled
99% Invisible
The Longest, Shortest Time
A No Story Story
The Plane That Flew Into the Empire State Building
Kohn
Edward Stephenson, Tobacco Auctioneer
Seizure’s Lament
The Natural State
Inner-City Reality Check
The Five Percent Rule
Fighting With My Dad
Four Feet Under