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Audio School: An Inside Look at How Youth Are Doing Radio
January 9 2007Producer Erin Mishkin has begun to create a with-youth, for-youth series of audio guides to the art of radio. Transom and PRX are featuring three pilot pieces. Erin wants your thoughts about these modules. Are they instructional, inspirational? What others would you want to hear? Let us know what you need, and we'll work with Erin and PRX to create more.
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Road Trip Radio
November 2006Lisa Tharpe is on a journey. She’s taking a year’s leave from her teaching job to make her own “personal independent study in radio…making it up as I go along, traveling around the country visiting friends and family and random interesting places, interviewing anyone who will let me.” As part of our “Beginnings” series, Transom will follow Lisa’s progress. She’ll post along the way; you can ask her questions and travel with her vicariously.
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The Pen is Easier than the Mic
February 2006by Bill McKibben "Eating Close to Home" at PRX "Home Grown" audio and transcript, Living On Earth [audio:http://www.loe.org/audio/050923/050923localfood.mp3] I have spent my life as a writer. By that I don't mean anything too fancy—I've w...
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Enter the White Stripes, Part 1
November 2002It's been about five years since I wrote this piece for Transom encouraging others to get out there and make radio. I, of course, have been a massive hypocrite, as I never did pick up a mic again. Still, this White Stripes adventure set me on a...
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Unbidden Radio
November 2002[caption id="attachment_30235" align="aligncenter" width="360"] From "You're Hearing Boston" days (circa 1978). I was walking through Harvard Yard in Cambridge, and ran into Kate Jackson (of Charlie's Angels fame) and Elliot Gould in the midst of a f...
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