The Transom Radio Hour - Audio Diaries
Series: The Transom Radio Hours
From: Atlantic Public Media
Length: 00:53:52
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.
More from Atlantic Public Media
The Transom Radio Hour - Experimenting With Sound
(00:52:58)
From: Atlantic Public Media
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 experimenting with sound with guest ...
The Transom Radio Hour - Learning The Craft
(00:54:29)
From: Atlantic Public Media
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 learning the craft, with special ...
TheTransom Radio Hour - Talking With Strangers
(00:53:30)
From: Atlantic Public Media
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 talking with strangers with special ...
The Transom Radio Hour - Conversing with Our Elders
(00:54:00)
From: Atlantic Public Media
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 talking to our elders with special ...
The Transom Radio Hour - Family Interviews
(00:54:01)
From: Atlantic Public Media
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 family interviews with special guest ...
Marabou Stork ~ Leptoptilos crumeniferus
(00:05:30)
From: Atlantic Public Media
The marabou stork of southern Africa isn’t much to look at—it’s large, ungainly, and bald like a vulture, with a nasty appetite for carrion.
Sulfur tuft fungus and Cleft-footed amanita ~ Hypholoma fasciculare and Amanita brunnescens
(00:05:28)
From: Atlantic Public Media
Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into almost every corner of the terrestrial world.
Corpse Flower ~ Amorphophallus
(00:05:29)
From: Atlantic Public Media
When you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Joshua tree. But a plant with ...
Arctic Tern ~Sterna paradisaea
(00:05:38)
From: Atlantic Public Media
A lifetime of migration: equal the distance to the moon and back, three times.
Mydas Fly ~ Eremomidas arabicus
(00:05:25)
From: Atlantic Public Media
Water in the desert is not always an oasis. A cautionary tale from the United Arab Emirates
Related Pieces
Piece 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.
2 Comments
|
Review of The Transom Radio Hour - Audio DiariesThis is a must listen for producers. It packages audio diaries in a way that hooked me for the full 52 minutes, and taught me a few things along the way. |
Broadcast History
Some pieces have been aired in other contexts, but this hour is making its debut.
Timing and Cues
News Compatible
Billboard 00:00 - 00:59
Program: 00:00 -52:52
One Cutaway with :60 music Bed
20:10 - OUTCUE: "...wehn we come back in just a minute"
:60 Music
21:10 - INCUE: Music fades out - then, "I'm Jay Allison and you're listening...."
Related Website
Of 6 purchasers of this piece...
- 5 also bought:
The Orphan Train (00:52:59) - 5 also bought:
HV- Crossing Borders (00:54:00) - 5 also bought:
- 5 also bought:
- 4 also bought:
The WASPs: Women Pilots of WWII (00:21:43)
Ben Adair
Posted on August 11, 2006 at 07:57 AM | Permalink
Review of The Transom Radio Hour - Audio Diaries
If there was a radio hall of fame, both Jay Allison and Joe Richman would be founding inductees and it's a real pleasure to hear the two of them talk about their craft. Very rewarding. The features in this show are all excellent and extremely compelling.
However, though The Transom Radio Hour is intended to be a look into the craft of making radio, I wonder if some of the conversation is a little too "inside baseball" and whether listeners will be engaged or turned off. Could go either way. That said, as soon as the radio diaries start playing, I think anyone would be hard pressed to turn the station.