Welcome back How Do You Like it So Far? fans! This week, we have a special treat for you — an unreleased episode of Colin and Henry’s first ever recording from September 25, 2017. For this “throwback,” we are joined by Peabody-Award-Winning storytellers and radio veterans-turned-podcasting heavyweights, Tina Antolini (former Host and Producer of Gravy), Scott Carrier, (Writer and Producer of Home of the Brave) and Trey Kay (Curator and Producer of Us & Them). Our guests remark on the surprising differences they encountered moving from public radio to producing podcasts. They interview one another on how the structure and intimacy of podcasts lends itself to listener engagement and authentic storytelling without compromising their own styles. Antolini, Carrier and Kay discuss how the radio-to-podcast transition has opened up a market for 1:1 conversational type podcasts where listeners feel fully invested in the shows and fueled the explosion of amazing niche subject matter podcasts.
Here are some of the references from this episode, for those who want to dig a little deeper:
Shift from Radio to Podcasts
Personal Essays on Podcasts
Appeal of Podcasts:
One-on-One with the listener
Listener Engagement and Involvement
Trey Kay’s Mad Magazine piece
Narrow Group of Public Radio Shows in the Past:
This American Life
Studio 360
The Splendid Table
This American Life with Ira Glass:
Jack Hitt
Sarah Vowel
David Sedaris
New Journalism Method for Podcasting:
Tom Wolfe
Hunter S. Thompson
The Great Textbook War (Radio Documentary)
Interview with Alice Moore on textbook controversy
Some of our favorite episodes from our guests:
Gravy (Tina Antolini) – Korean BBQ in Coolsville: A Memphis Report | Southern Foodways Alliance
Home of the Brave (Scott Carrier) – Trump Supporters and Running with the Antelope
(The latter episode became a book)
Us & Them (Trey Kay) – Trey & Alice
Share your thoughts via Twitter with Henry and Colin and also through email at annlab@usc.edu!
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