Welcome to the Creative Studio podcast, where we conduct experiments with podcasting! Throughout this season, we have explored how to create a narrative or journalistic style podcast. This is the tenth and final episode in this series.

Today, we will hear from several of our special guests regarding resources to help you create narrative audio. We’ll also hear some general tips from them that will also help throughout this process. Today’s guests are:

• Bryan Orr
• Corey Coates
• Daniel J.  Lewis
• Doc Kennedy
• Jessica Rhodes
• Jessica Abel
• Dave Jackson
• Erik K. Johnson
• Rye Taylor

I also want to thank Else Escobar and Geoff Woods for being guests this season as well.

As we wrap up this episode and series, I want to invite you to get a free gift. I have put a detailed PDF together with everything mentioned in this episode. To get this, you don’t even have to enter your email address – just click the link to download the PDF right away. I know that this episode and corresponding PDF doesn’t have everything we covered in this series, but if you’d be interested in getting something with all of this either in written form or video, please let me know!

I really want to thank you for taking the time to listen to this podcast. If this series has helped you, I really want to hear from you. You can go to the contact page or send me an email directly to [email protected].

Now, as we are wrapping up season 4, I am working on some things for season 5. The tagline for this podcast is “podcasting experiments,” so I’d like to follow that vein and interview podcasters that are creating podcasts that are different from the “standard” podcasts. Maybe it’s the format that they use. Or the combination of formats they use. Or maybe it’s how they record the podcast. Or maybe it’s the way they combine niches to create a new niche. I’m going to be on the lookout for such podcasters, but I’m open to suggestions. If you or someone you know is creating a podcast that you think is a little different from the rest, please let me know.

Listen to really great narrative podcasts

• Radiotopia podcasts
  • 99% Invisible
  • The Memory Palace
  • The Allusionist
  • The Kitchen Sisters
  • Lost and Found Sounds
  
  

Listen to podcasts that tell you how-to do narrative

• How Sound hosted with Rob Rosenthal
• Out On the Wire with Jessica Abel
• Book: Out On the Wire
• Third Coast Festival in Chicago for Audio Storytellers

Blogs

• Transom.org
• AirMedia.org
• Here Be Monsters

Just Do It (even if you don’t publish it)

• Start by telling stories about yourself or your family

Don’t outsource

• Learn how to do everything yourself
• Cutting own tape
• Doing your own logging
• Write your own narrative
• Edit music

Do raw interviews

• “Art of Non-doing”
• Hunt for your own music - work with composers
• See what happens
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