This episode features an interview with the podcasting masterminds behind Bird of Paradise Productions: Noelle McCarthy and John Daniell. Listeners will appreciate this free-ranging discussion which includes a description of how they started their own production company as well as their intertwined approach to audio storytelling and interview technique.

Be sure to listen to their latest narrative podcast project, which has just launched with The NZ Herald: Mr. Asia: A Forgotten History.

Bird of Paradise podcasts discussed on this episode:  

• Getting Better 

• The Service

• Dear Jane

• He’ll Be Right

• Slice of Heaven

• Fair Game

• Red Line

• A Wrinkle in Time 

Find out more at https://www.birdofparadise.co.nz/ 

Hosted by Collin Bjork, a senior lecturer at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand 

Produced by Tim Jurgens

Website: www.collinbjork.com

Email: [email protected]

Bluesky: @collinbjork.bsky.social

Transcripts will be available at www.collinbjork.com/Poduni.html  

Music Credit: Collin Bjork