Transom TCF 2004 – Archive (16)
Truth on Stage, Fiction on Radio
November 5 2004When I first read the conference description, the session that I was most eager to check out was Truth on Stage. Tom Lopez played a bunch of great pieces that were all works of fiction, but each sounded real. The discussion in my session tended to revolve around style choices in the pieces, but I still find myself out of step when it comes to the issue of having fiction on radio. Am I the only one who simply doesn't care if a radio story is true or not? Someone commented during the session that ...
Read On »FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: A Message from Julie Atomic (Shapiro)
November 2004So now that we've had some time to decompress some about the conference here at Third Coast HQ (and utterly DEPRESS about the state of things in general) I wanted to share a thought with whoever may want to respond. Two international guests at the...
Read On »Inspiration
October 2004As David Isay and Alex Kotlowitz wrapped up their discussion on Friday someone in the audience asked David what "advice" he had for independent radio producers. His Answer: Public radio producers should never take no for an answer and always keep in ...
Read On »Friday night
October 2004Good times last night, many of us are still rubbing our eyes. The Joe Frank performance was amazing. The theater at the Art Institute was the perfect venue for Joe to perform his magic. It was a multimedia performance, music and video and a dancer...
Read On »Drink Bacardi at the after party
October 2004In this epsiode: Joe Frank inspires, PRX raises the roof, and Benjamen gets surly.
Read On »pictures on the radio
October 2004Nubar Alexanian is a photographer who has only recently started making radio. This is a picture of Studs Terkel that he took 2 years ago at Third Coast.. Nubar says normally he doesn't like to take pictures of people standing at podiums: "that's d...
Read On »Image As Metaphor
October 2004In this episode: We discuss the role of metaphor in storytelling. Sometimes a parrot is not just a parrot.
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