Creative audio types from North America get Hackneyed. Award winning British radio producer Francesca Panetta interviews Award winning American radio producers Ira Glass and Jad Abumrad, along with Third Coast Festival directors Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro. It's a passionate sound love-in!
From The Guardian's Media Talk podcast.
Connor Walsh for AD, Brussels.
Playtime: 24 minutes 8 seconds
Inside the world of bail bonds. Should you ever get arrested, they come to your rescue. Produced by Jeanette Woods at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies Summer Workshop.
Playtime: 8 minutes 57 seconds
chick/lit examines fan fiction – a particular type called Slash Fiction. It's a genre best known for bringing Harry Potter and his rivals… together.
AudioDocumentary.org spoke to the producer, Inez Tan, from Singapore. She says chick/lit is unlikely to get broadcast on the radio there, because of the homesexual inferences of Slash Fiction. Listen to the interview by clicking here.
Music: Kämmerer A Final Year Project for the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore © Inez Tan, 2010
Connor Walsh, for AD, London
Producer: Inez Tan
Playtime: 31 minutes 38 seconds
The first in a series from “Hearing is Believing II,” the advanced summer workshop at The Duke Center for Documentary Studies. During the intensive course, budding audio artists receive personal guidance from seasoned radio documentary producers to craft and polish their piece. "Lost in the Mail" is by Samara Freemark, whose day job is at Radio Diaries.
Playtime: 11 minutes 40 seconds
The church that condemned Galileo in the 1600s for saying the earth revolves around the sun now has its own observatory to explore the heavens. Radio New Zealand takes you inside.
Playtime: 30 minutes 12 seconds