Sound School Podcast
By Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org
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The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Introducing Sound Judgment
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Thanks, NPR. That Was Satisfying.
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Um, A Deep Dive
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Revisiting: Should I or Shouldn’t I — Recording in Stereo
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Small, Random, and Meaningful
|
Feb 27, 2024 |
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For the Love of Radio, Get Out of the Studio!
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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A Triple Whammy
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Tracking Partners
|
Jan 16, 2024 |
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Revisiting: Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and The Goldstein
|
Jan 02, 2024 |
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Which Is the Better Open?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Reporting Out at the Edge
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Mixing Fiction with Non-Fiction
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Interview Strangers on the Street, Make a Podcast
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Revisiting: Remembering Studs
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Pleasing to the Ear
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Salt at 50!
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Revisiting: Dead Mom Talking
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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So You STILL Want to Start a Podcast, Eh?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Going Behind the Mic On Climate Change Reporting
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Revisiting: Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Next-level Scoring
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Lean In and Listen Like It’s Music
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Revisiting: Avoiding Pesky Sound Problems
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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The Best Audio Storytelling According to Pushkin
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Happy 15th Sound School!
|
May 23, 2023 |
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What's Grabbed Antonia's Ears?
|
May 09, 2023 |
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The Fingerprint of Chris Brookes
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Producing a Non-narrated Obituary
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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What’s Next for Munira?
|
Mar 28, 2023 |
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Still More Darts and Laurels
|
Mar 14, 2023 |
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Think of a Radio Station (or Podcast) as a Musical Instrument
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Dear Birth Mother
|
Feb 14, 2023 |
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Studs Terkel Meets Brian Eno in the Woods
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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This is Good, But I Have a Question
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Recording Sound Design in the Field
|
Jan 03, 2023 |
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Why Two Narrators When One Will Suffice?
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Caves and Bears and Neanderthal Flutes - Stories from Slovenia
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Writing An Audio Essay
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Story Dissection: When the Lede Gives It All Away
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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We Need More Words To Describe Audio Stories
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Hand Over the Cash?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Getting Honest —The Editor, Producer Relationship
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Darts and Laurels Minus the Darts
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Two Years of Reporting Whittled Down to Fourteen Minutes – Elissa Nadworny
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Wolves, Horses, Boars, Birds, and Bugs
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Tips For Interviewing Shy People (Especially Nuns)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Nausea, Forehead Mics, and Immersion
|
Jul 19, 2022 |
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Share the Script?
|
Jul 05, 2022 |
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Delicately Revealing Your Identity in the Story
|
Jun 21, 2022 |
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Who Am I To Be Here?
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
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Producing YA Fiction
|
May 24, 2022 |
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Collaboration Is the Only Way Forward
|
May 10, 2022 |
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More Darts And Laurels
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Thinking in Scenes
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
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Remember to Breathe!
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Engage Listeners To Build Trust
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Radio Silence (Rerun)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Audio Message in a Bottle
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Al Letson’s Covenant with Listeners About True Crime Stories
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Navigating Tricky Story Dynamics
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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So You Want To Start A Podcast, Eh?
|
Jan 04, 2022 |
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Exquisitely Challenging: Reporting on Suicide
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Darts and Laurels
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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House Of Pod Closes The House
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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A Sonic Conjuring (Rerun)
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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The World Orchestra Is Always Playing
|
Oct 26, 2021 |
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From Memoir to Radio Story
|
Oct 12, 2021 |
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Interviewing for Story
|
Sep 28, 2021 |
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The Megan Tan Way
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Sounds Easy, But...
|
Aug 31, 2021 |
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Goldstein on Writing, Fonts, and “The Goldstein”
|
Aug 17, 2021 |
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Stand-Ups (Rerun)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Fireworks
|
Jul 20, 2021 |
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Narrative Justice
|
Jul 06, 2021 |
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The Kids Will Have Their Say
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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When Anthropology Meets Audio Storytelling
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Wrangling Stories With A Focus Sentence
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May 25, 2021 |
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Tape-Driven Storytelling
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May 11, 2021 |
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Dissecting a Good Story, Well Told
|
Apr 27, 2021 |
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Who Are Those People in Podcast Credits?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Thoughts On Trailers
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Schwartz Is A Verb
|
Mar 16, 2021 |
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Audio Playground
|
Mar 02, 2021 |
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Gas Mask? Check. Bullet Proof Vest? Check...What to Wear When the Reporting Gets Dangerous
|
Feb 16, 2021 |
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Eavesdropping on the Insurrection
|
Feb 02, 2021 |
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Perk Up Your Ears!
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Bow Glacier Asserting Its Existence
|
Jan 05, 2021 |
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How Do You Know a Story is Worthy of a Podcast Series?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Show, Don't Tell
|
Dec 08, 2020 |
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Nancy Was Here
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Things I Like
|
Nov 10, 2020 |
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Portraying Character
|
Oct 27, 2020 |
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Why So Chatty, Alex Blumberg?
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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A Night of Ear Candy
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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The Intersection of Folklore, Radio Journalism and a Pear
|
Sep 15, 2020 |
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The Squirm Test
|
Sep 01, 2020 |
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Effective Sound Effects
|
Aug 18, 2020 |
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Pandemic Diary
|
Aug 04, 2020 |
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Sound Art Meets Poetry Meets Cicadas
|
Jul 21, 2020 |
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Walking In The Margins Of Journalism Ethics
|
Jul 07, 2020 |
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Leave In The Question
|
Jun 23, 2020 |
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A Feast For Your Ears
|
Jun 09, 2020 |
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The Recesses Of Jay's Mind
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May 26, 2020 |
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AfroQueer And Podcasting In Kenya
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May 12, 2020 |
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What Do You Stand For?
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Gathering Scene Tape While Reporting From A Closet
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Take A Walk With Your Mic
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Poetry As Narration
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Two Student Stories About Music
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Being Present With A Microphone
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Got Your Ears On?
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Shereen Goes Quiet
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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When The Story Is About You But Not About You
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Pigeons and Octopuses – Two Transom Story Workshop Stories
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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Reporting On The Reverse Freedom Riders
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Staying The Course In A Tough Interview
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Navigating Mongolia With Fixers
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Scoring Stories: Part 2
|
Oct 29, 2019 |
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Scoring Stories: Part 1
|
Oct 15, 2019 |
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Interviewing For Emotions
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Jaw-Dropping Clips
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Anything Can Happen. That's The Best Part.
|
Sep 03, 2019 |
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Bellwether's Speculative Journalism
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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HowSound Reviews "Song Exploder"
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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HowSound Reviews "Stay Free: The Story Of The Clash"
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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The Hidden Work Of An Associate Producer
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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First, Tell Them An Anecdote
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Asking Questions
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Some Fav And Not-So-Fav Sounds
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May 29, 2019 |
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Getting Inside Someone Else’s Skin
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May 14, 2019 |
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Eight Things I Like About 10 Things That Scare Me
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Nuggets
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
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How Sruthi Tracks
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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An Editor’s Fingerprints
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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All The Sound We Can Not Hear
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Two From The Road In Nashville
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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A Sonic Conjuring
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Twitter Vox
|
Jan 22, 2019 |
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Taking Control Of The Music
|
Jan 08, 2019 |
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Your Skull Is An Ear
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Making Sense Of A Pile Of Tape
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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Enticing Listeners To Press Play Again
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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These Are A Few Of My Favorite (Recent) Clips
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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You Just Won’t Know If You Don’t Ask
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Fictional Sounds For A Fictional Story
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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The Podcast Mindset: Part 2
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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The Podcast Mindset: Part 1
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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Color Notes
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Three Stories, Marfa Style
|
Aug 21, 2018 |
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Story Endings
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Anatomy Of A Scene
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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A Rockin’ Start
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Three Student Stories Produced In Only A Week
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Hang A Picture In Front Of The Mic
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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25th Anniversary Of “Ghetto Life 101”
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May 29, 2018 |
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Recording Binaurally
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May 15, 2018 |
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Finding Chenjerai The Storyteller
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May 01, 2018 |
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Police Ride-Alongs
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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The Value Of A Sympathetic Character
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Sports Stories That Work
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Stopping A Podcast
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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A Question To Start A Story?
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Journalism Of Empathy
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Reporting On Traumatic Events
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Don’t Write, Tell
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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Two Traveling Workshop Stories
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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Radio Is A Visual Medium
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Avoiding Cheesy Sound Design
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Stepping In With The Facts
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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The Broken Narrative
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Sounding Like Yourself
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Sound Design Basics
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Making First-Person Stories Stand Out
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Fact-Checking “A Life Sentence”
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Ready, Set, Radio Race!
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Let The Tape Sing And Other Lessons From A Filmmaker Turned Podcaster
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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A Few Of My Favorite Things
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Ask Uncomfortable Questions
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Improvisation And Structure
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Stories That Are Impossible To Pitch
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May 30, 2017 |
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On Interviewing A Racist
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May 16, 2017 |
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When A Good Idea For A Podcast Is A Bad Idea For A Podcast
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May 02, 2017 |
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Avoiding Pesky Recording Problems
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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Dead Mom Talking
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Reporting On Whiteness
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Intimate Interviewing
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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Rethinking A Podcast Top To Bottom
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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Sound As The Protagonist
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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Shaking Up Storytelling Formulas
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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Buried Treasures, Again
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Morphing Print Essays Into Radio
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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Composing Music For Stories On This American Life
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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On Your Mark. Get Set. Start Your Story.
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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The Blindsiding Twist
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Story Structure: The ‘e’
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Narrating To An Audience
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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The Evolution Of A Story
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Doorstepping: The Uninvited Interview
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Subjective Reporting
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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How Not To Write For Radio
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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Sound Matters
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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Hiroshima Revisited
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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Radio Silence
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Short Is Beautiful
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Should Stations Produce Podcasts?
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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The Ethics Of Trespassing And Secret Recording
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May 31, 2016 |
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Show The Girls The Snakes
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May 17, 2016 |
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First-Person Reporting
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Still More Buried Treasures: Student Work
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Apr 05, 2016 |
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Tinkering With Sound Design
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Mar 22, 2016 |
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Producing Personal Pieces
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Mar 08, 2016 |
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What Do You Do When The Rooster Dies?
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Feb 23, 2016 |
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Should I Or Shouldn’t I: Recording In Stereo
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Feb 09, 2016 |
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Magical Realism In Radio
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Jan 26, 2016 |
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Interviewing With Your Skeptical Brain
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Jan 12, 2016 |
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Frank Langfitt’s Unusual Voicing Method
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Dec 29, 2015 |
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What’s Changed?: The Power Of Follow-Up Stories
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Dec 16, 2015 |
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More Buried Treasures: Two Student Stories
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Dec 01, 2015 |
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The Biggest Story In The World
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Nov 17, 2015 |
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Small Is Beautiful
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Nov 03, 2015 |
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Writing Out Of Tape
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Oct 20, 2015 |
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Frustrated Artist Finds Way To Make Art
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Father Cares: The Last of Jonestown with Deb Amos and Noah Adams
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Sep 22, 2015 |
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Buried Treasures: Four Student Pieces
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Sep 08, 2015 |
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Story Dissection: Dead Animal Man
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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Finding The Story When You Know Too Much
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Aug 11, 2015 |
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Producing Science Stories With A Scientist
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Jul 28, 2015 |
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Remixing The Music
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Jul 14, 2015 |
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A Mom, A Transgender Daughter, And A Podcast
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Jun 30, 2015 |
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A Matter Of Ethics
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Jun 16, 2015 |
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Radio Luck And The Gift Of Character Change
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Foils And Other First Person Tricks
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May 19, 2015 |
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The Path To Primary Care
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May 05, 2015 |
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Radio Writing With Alex Chadwick
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Concerning Breakfast
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Apr 07, 2015 |
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Death, Sex And Money With Anna Sale
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Mar 24, 2015 |
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Melissa’s Story
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Reporting Dark Matters
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Feb 24, 2015 |
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Barf Draft With An iPhone
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Feb 10, 2015 |
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Revisiting Criminal
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Jan 27, 2015 |
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Burroughs at 100
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Jan 13, 2015 |
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Australia!
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Dec 30, 2014 |
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Here I Am And Here Be Danger
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Dec 16, 2014 |
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Tandem
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Dec 03, 2014 |
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Bionic Pancreas
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Nov 19, 2014 |
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Strangers
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Nov 05, 2014 |
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Early Bloom
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Oct 15, 2014 |
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HowSound Live!
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Compassionate Release
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Sep 17, 2014 |
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The Hitchhiker
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Sep 03, 2014 |
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Hard To Say
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Aug 27, 2014 |
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Set the Wayback Machine for 1914
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Aug 06, 2014 |
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3rd Grade Audio
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Jul 23, 2014 |
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Five Things
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Jul 09, 2014 |
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Walking with the Voses
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Jun 25, 2014 |
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Love Is A Battlefield
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Jun 11, 2014 |
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Look At Me, Did I Find True Love?
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May 28, 2014 |
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Criminal
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May 14, 2014 |
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Risky Reporting at Fukushima
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Apr 24, 2014 |
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Typewriters Are Unpleasant
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Apr 09, 2014 |
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Getting Honest: The Editor, Producer Relationship
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Mar 26, 2014 |
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Baking Tape
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Mar 12, 2014 |
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To Scene or Not To Scene
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Feb 26, 2014 |
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Dear Birth Mother
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Feb 12, 2014 |
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Recording Not By The Book
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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The Hospital Always Wins
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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Hark! The Acoustic World of Elizabethan England
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Jan 02, 2014 |
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The Last of the Iron Lungs
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Dec 18, 2013 |
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The New New Sheriff in Town
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Dec 04, 2013 |
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Just Plumb Gone
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Nov 20, 2013 |
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The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
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Nov 06, 2013 |
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This Story May Be Recorded… To Save Your Life
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Oct 24, 2013 |
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Hafid is Free
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Oct 09, 2013 |
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Heyoon
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Sep 25, 2013 |
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Nodding Syndrome
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Sep 11, 2013 |
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Autism Grows Up
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Aug 28, 2013 |
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Stylus
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Aug 14, 2013 |
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Reporting Trauma After the Boston Marathon
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Jul 31, 2013 |
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Just Another Fish Story
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Jul 17, 2013 |
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Love + Radio
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Jul 03, 2013 |
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Witness to an Execution
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Jun 20, 2013 |
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52hz
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Jun 05, 2013 |
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Balance and The Minnesota Marriage Amendment
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May 22, 2013 |
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Josh: Growing Up With Tourette’s
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May 08, 2013 |
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The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Corporal Michael A. Baronowski
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Apr 24, 2013 |
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Recording in Remote Locations
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Apr 10, 2013 |
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My Kingdom For Some Structure
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Mar 27, 2013 |
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Generation Putin
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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What If There Was No Destiny?
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Feb 27, 2013 |
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Curious City
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Feb 13, 2013 |
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Three Records from Sundown
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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Tiny Spark
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Jan 16, 2013 |
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The Tale of Lot 180
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Jan 02, 2013 |
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‘Til Death Do Us Part
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dear Craigslist: I Have A Small Swastika Tattoo and I Want It Off
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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The Burning Question
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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Jad’s Brain
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Nov 07, 2012 |
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The Seance
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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The Green Lawns of Texas
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Oct 10, 2012 |
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A Trip to the Dentist
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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Alleged Illegal Searches
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Sep 12, 2012 |
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Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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She Sees Your Every Move
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Aug 22, 2012 |
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Dissecting Joanne Rosser, Papermaker
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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One Species at a Time
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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The Secret
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Jul 11, 2012 |
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Stand-Ups
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Jun 27, 2012 |
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Two Cape Cods
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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The Gift That Was Brought To Us
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May 30, 2012 |
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Happy Birthday Studs!
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May 16, 2012 |
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Fact Check This
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May 02, 2012 |
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Krulwich on Gorilla Cage Drama
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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A Dual Narrative
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Feb 22, 2012 |
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Chorus of Refuge
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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The Pirate
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Different, Not Disabled
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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99% Invisible
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Dec 28, 2011 |
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The Longest, Shortest Time
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Dec 14, 2011 |
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A No Story Story
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Nov 30, 2011 |
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The Plane That Flew Into the Empire State Building
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Nov 16, 2011 |
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Kohn
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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Edward Stephenson, Tobacco Auctioneer
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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Seizure’s Lament
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Oct 05, 2011 |
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The Natural State
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Sep 22, 2011 |
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Inner-City Reality Check
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Sep 07, 2011 |
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The Five Percent Rule
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Aug 24, 2011 |
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Fighting With My Dad
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Four Feet Under
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Jul 26, 2011 |