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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The series "Seeing White" is essential listening. John Biewen reports on whiteness and white people for his podcast "Scene on Radio."

Bought by PRX Remix and KUER


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Producer Lu Olkowski offers several tips for fostering intimate interviews including a couple that are unorthodox.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 18:31
  • Purchases: 1
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I have great admiration for Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick. They put their podcast under a microscope. Why? To re-think the show top to bottom. Th...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 14:36
  • Purchases: 1
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The first time I listened to Jump Blue, I was slightly thrown off center; it took a couple of minutes to acclimate my ear. Then I lost my breath.

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 20:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Planet Money's Robert Smith on an unusual device for creative storytelling -- Oblique Strategies.

Bought by KUER and KALW


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 18:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Two more gems from the Transom Story Workshop archive.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 22:03
  • Purchases: 2
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Here’s a modest proposal. For stations and programs and podcasts looking for content, collaborate with essayists — especially authors who are alrea...

Bought by WOUB and KUER


  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 2
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A lot of the music This American Life uses to score stories is composed for the program. Producer Jonathan Menjivar and musician Matthias Bossi of ...

Bought by WOUB, KUER, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 14:18
  • Purchases: 3
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There are no rules about starting a story but, there are some common approaches. Jessica Terrell dissects several story-starting tricks she used in...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 15:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Twisted story twists are the hallmark of Love + Radio. Nick van der Kolk dissects the blind-siding reveal in "A Girl of Ivory."

  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 19:22