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 backstory on Gabrielle’s reporting on a hidden past is fascinating. How she found people connected to the Reverse Freedom Riders… How she commu...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 16:30
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Blurb: When you're yelled out. Called a prostitute. Told you're a liar and shameless and malicious... How do you stay the course and keep interview...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 24:31
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Emily Kwong had never been to Mongolia. She doesn't speak the language. She didn't know her way around. It was winter and very cold. She was in-cou...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 16:40
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Rob gets granular, zooming in on how to bring music in and out of a story. And, then, he takes a stab at the impossible: explaining one aspect of h...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 17:44
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Finally, Rob tackles what people have been asking for for years -- scoring stories. This is the first of two episodes on the fundamentals of using ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 23:39
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HowSound listeners always seem to want tips on interviewing. Liz Mak of Snap Judgement delivers on this episode with her approach to interviewing f...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:24
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Get your ears on for this episode. Rob presents clips from podcasts that made his jaw drop including Love + Radio, The Ballad of Billy Balls, and H...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 24:43
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Reporting in the field can be chaos. Anything can happen. NPR host Noel King says that's the best part of being a journalist -- chasing a story tha...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 11:33
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In 2017, producer Sam Greenspan took a leap. He left his producing job at 99% Invisible for... well, he wasn't exactly sure at the time. Now, two y...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 17:45
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In an effort to try something new, Rob offers another podcast review. This time, Song Exploder from Radiotopia. Rob feels there should be critiques...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2020
  • Length: 19:05