
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


"Ums." You're supposed to cut them out, right? But what if the "um" means something? Talia Augustidis noticed her boyfriend "ummed" when he was lying and she thought "radio story." Talia takes a deep dive into the importance of not cutting out all the "ums" as well as the backstory to her piece for the BBC's Short Cuts called "What's In An Um?"
By Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org4.9
290290 ratings
"Ums." You're supposed to cut them out, right? But what if the "um" means something? Talia Augustidis noticed her boyfriend "ummed" when he was lying and she thought "radio story." Talia takes a deep dive into the importance of not cutting out all the "ums" as well as the backstory to her piece for the BBC's Short Cuts called "What's In An Um?"

91,174 Listeners

43,868 Listeners

38,525 Listeners

38,791 Listeners

26,254 Listeners

2,870 Listeners

9,209 Listeners

6,883 Listeners

1,280 Listeners

1,287 Listeners

1,168 Listeners

7,716 Listeners

17,638 Listeners

4,201 Listeners

642 Listeners