HowSound

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HowSound is a bi-weekly podcast pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio production.

Each episode highlights the work of independent producers such as Dave Isay, Joe Richman, Hillary Frank, and Dmae Roberts.

HowSound is produced by Rob Rosenthal for PRX and Transom.

The podcasts are available as free MP3 streams and downloads on iTunes, other podcast directories, and here at PRX.

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The backstory to great radio storytelling.


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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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  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:13
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Laura Starecheski should win a radio endurance award. Laura tells the story of her decade -- ten years! -- of research and production on "The Hospi...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 21:07
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Three radio greats -- Chris Brookes, Paolo Pietropaolo, and Alan Hall -- explore the sound of England 400 years ago along with our modern soundscap...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2014
  • Length: 55:48
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Julia Scott says "participant observation" is a valuable reporting tool, even if it means climbing into an "iron lung" which looks like something o...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 13:25
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Headphones are mandatory for this episode of HowSound. Kathy Tu's second radio story ever will set your ears ablaze.

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 09:59
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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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  • Added: Nov 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:43
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David Schulman usually produces non-narrated stories on music. Recently, he stepped out of his usual style to produce a narrated science story focu...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 16:30
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Yowei Shaw amassed 325 pages of transcripts for her This American Life story on Eritrean hostages and the reporter who uncovered the story. And tha...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 16:32
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"Hafid is Free" is a solid example of what a story needs when it doesn't have a narrative hook.

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  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:41
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A recent episode of "99% Invisible" employed a dramatic recreation to bring the past to life. Producers Alex Goldman and Sam Greenspan explain how ...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 14:03
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