The Transom Radio Hour - Audio Diaries

Part of Series The Transom Radio Hour Series
Length 52:52
Licensor Atlantic Public Media
Producer(s) Pejk Malinovski with Viki Merrick
Formats Diary, First-person essay, Special
Topics Instructional, Media
Produced June, 2006
Added to PRX June 7, 2006
 

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Summary:

One of 6 hour-long programs on the art and craft of radio with host Jay Allison, creator of the website Transom.org. This hour focuses on the audio diary with special guest Joe Richman. ( newscast compatible)

Website:

http://www.transom.org

Additional Credits and Funding:

Producers, Pejk Malinovski with Viki Merrick. Host, Jay Allison. Production assistance from Emily Sapienza and the staff of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole Massachusetts, including Helen Woodward and Sydney Lewis. Thanks to the Cape and Island NPR stations. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by the Ford Foundation.

Tones:

Engaging, Informational, Personal

Language:

English

Description:

This hour ( newscast compatible) has special guest Joe Richman ( Radio Diaries) in conversation with host Jay Allison discussing the ways of making engaging radio diaries. Works include excerpts from Joe Richman's work as well as other pieces: Jake Warga's "Home from Africa" and David Sommerstein's "A Survivor of Cutting."

The Transom Radio Hour grows out of the web site Transom.org which is devoted to the art and practise of public radio. It's the first and only stand-alone website ever to win the Peabody Award. It's an open master class for story-telling in sound. Like the site, the radio series has a practical and instructional tone, encouraging people to do it themselves.