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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Certain radio stories I heard years ago made such an impression on me they still bounce around in my head like a long echo. "Concerning Breakfast" ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 24:22
  • Purchases: 2
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What stands out about WNYC’s podcast Death, Sex, and Money are the guests. The program has featured its share of celebrities — Dan Savage, Margaret...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This is the fourth and final edition of HowSound recorded at the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2014. I saved the Gold for last. That’...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2015
  • Length: 45:03
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Today’s episode of HowSound may feature the most demanding subject matter ever presented on the show: pedophilia and child porn. And while these is...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2015
  • Length: 39:55
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For years, I’ve given this advice: when you’re having trouble figuring out how to write a story, tell it to a friend. Tell someone who doesn’t know...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2015
  • Length: 15:49
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We interviewed Phoebe Judge at Criminal in May of 2014. On this edition of HowSound, we check back in with her after the podcast's incredible rise ...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 21:53
  • Purchases: 2
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The long awaited get together – William Burroughs and Iggy Pop. Two icons and iconoclasts in one radio program Burroughs at 100. The documentary wo...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 33:32
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A trip to Australia for a sampler of radio storytelling with Julie Shapiro, the Executive Producer of the Creative Audio Unit of RN (formerly, Radi...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 40:13
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With all the focus on straightforward and uncomplicated storytelling, radio stories can become predictable and start to sound dull. Fortunately, t...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:16
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On this HowSound, how a story about a skydiving accident nearly drove Anna Rose MacArthur away from radio and what brought her back.

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 16:27
  • Purchases: 1