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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Producer Jakob Lewis on "parachuting in" to produce a story about a funeral and a grieving family.

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 21:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Interviewing tricks and tips from NPR science reporter Alix Spiegel. You'll want to take notes.

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 22:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Transom Story Workshop student, Alex Kapelman, with the story of a drummer with a hook for a hand and a 50-year old rock and roll mystery.

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  • Added: May 28, 2014
  • Length: 19:48
  • Purchases: 1
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The new podcast "Criminal," is well worth a listen. Find out what it's all about from the program's host, Phoebe Judge. Listen at PRX: http://www.p...

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  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:14
  • Purchases: 2
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NPR foreign correspondent Anthony Kuhn on the risks involved reporting at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 11:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Raphael of Rabbit Ears Audio talks sound effects recording: winter scenes, rockets, cityscapes, and the soul destroying typewriter.

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Will Coley and editor Viki Merrick offer HowSound listeners a gift by talking about their editorial process, a working relationship that i...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2014
  • Length: 22:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A painful reminiscence about preserving old reel-to-reel tapes by baking them. No, that's not a typo. Baking.

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 2
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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 s...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
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On this edition of HowSound, a 2005 Third Coast Festival award-winner from Long Haul Productions about a transracial adoption.

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 32:58
  • Purchases: 1