The Transom Radio Hour - Learning The Craft

Part of Series The Transom Radio Hour Series
Length 52:59
Licensor Atlantic Public Media
Producer(s) Pejk Melinovski with Viki Merrick
Formats Documentary, Interview, Special
Topics Instructional, Media
Produced August, 2006
Added to PRX August 5, 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 learning the craft, with special guest Rob Rosenthal

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:

Informational, Thoughtful

Language:

English

Description:

This hour (newscast compatible) features Salt Institute for Documentary Studies Radio Guy, Rob Rosenthal, talking with host Jay Allison about learning the craft of radio, the way they do it in Portland, Maine. Works include "Jaz, The Cleaning Woman" by Jamie York, "Johnny Comes Home" by Rupa Marya, "Sound of Democracy" by Elizabeth Chur, and "Cathy, 16, Mom" by Sarah Elzas.

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.