Radio Diaries Top 5

Required listening for everybody in America

Home of the Brave — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:20:42 +0000

Scott Carrier has always been one of my favorite radio writers. This classic should be required listening for everybody in America: Friendly Man.

The thing that makes me panic: story structure

HowSound — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:19:51 +0000

If you have any interest in podcasts, storytelling, journalism, or just like hearing people talk about their craft, then check out Rob Rosenthal’s HowSound. Here’s a recent episode about the thing that gives me the most panic: story structure.

These words, forever

Memory Palace — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:18:33 +0000

Another classic episode from Radiotopia.

Life without a kitchen leads to the most unexpected hidden kitchen of all

Fugitive Waves with The Kitchen Sisters — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:17:21 +0000

I would recommend each and every episode from every Radiotopia show. That will keep a person busy for a while. You also could start here with a classic.

My favorite recent episode of our own show

Radio Diaries — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:10:58 +0000

This is a story we would never have thought to do… until we found Majd (or she found us). Majd spent more than two years bravely recording her life, and chronicling her parents’ attempts to arrange her marriage. What I love about this one is that it’s such an unfamiliar story to many of us. But as a diarist, Majd is so familiar we feel like we know her by minute two.