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The Transom Review
Highlights from our community conversations and special guest essays.
By Creature Comforts
Our Editor Sydney Lewis has compiled Creature Comforts' Manifesto, along with
your Q&A, into a new downloadable edition of The Transom Review.
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Alex Blumberg : Online | PDF
We have complied the discussion from This American Life's Alex Blumberg and his radio class at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism into our customary downloadable format. You can click once and download the whole thing in a PDF file. This topic is full of really practical tips for radio interviewing and storytelling. You're guaranteed to find something useful.
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Walter Murch: Online | PDF
We have prepared a challenging issue of the Transom Review featuring the multiple Oscar-winning sound mixer, Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Conversation... for starters). It includes his essays "Womb Tone" and "Dense Clarity--Clear Density" along with the remarkable conversation they provoked.
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Kate Sullivan & Pop Vultures: Online | PDF
Kate's Guestship talking excitedly about Pop Vultures and ended by announcing it had been cancelled. We wonder if this adventurous program wasn't ready for public radio, or if public radio isn't ready for adventurous programs.
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Lawrence Weschler: Online | PDF
Ren gives virtuousic A's to some terrific Q's about structure, the music of language, interviewing skills, presidential campaigns, and pillows of air (a.k.a. wonder).
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Ira Glass: Online | PDF
The Pied Piper of Public Radio. If you run a radio shop, get your staff to read this Review. It will answer questions they didn't know they had.
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Brooke Gladstone: Online | PDF
Brooke's patient and clever advice about how to do a good job on the radio is now collected into a downloadable, printable edition of The Transom Review. If you have in mind to create your own weekly public radio show and be its editor and host, you need this guide.
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Alan Berliner: Online | PDF
You should see his studio. And hear it. You can... by watching "Audiofile," a short video that captures his obsession. Failing that, check out his elegant, Flash-animated manifesto: "Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Sound"
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PRX - Shapiro & Schultze: Online | PDF
Key questions about the future of public radio and the Internet. A thoughtful conversation with the builders of the Public Radio Exchange.
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Morris on McNamara: Online | PDF
Errol speaks with Nubar Alexanian about Robert McNamara and his film, Fog of War.
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Sarah Chayes: Online | PDF
Sarah Chayes in Afghanistan about launching an independent radio service in Kandahar.
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J.J. Sutherland: Online | PDF
Some Assembly Required. Covering the launch of the new NPR midday show, Day To Day, as recounted by its producer, JJ Sutherland.
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Davis Isay & Sound Portraits: Online | PDF
Dave Isay and his collaborators have made a singular mark on public radio documentary. Chances are, if you know the actual title of radio piece, it's probably one of theirs.
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Julia Barton and Alexander Kleimenov: Online | PDF
Julia Barton and Alexander Kleimenov share with us the world of radio in the former Soviet Union, and the possible kinships between our two nations.
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Jonathan Goldstein: Online | PDF
His work for the CBC and This American Life can be funny and moving all in one sentence. He has made pieces about Travel, Telemarketing, Voice Mail, Love... and now he's written about radio. Prepare to be strangely moved by an image of pre-chewed food.
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Bill Siemering: Online | PDF
"My First Fifty Years in Radio and What I Learned." ... PLUS, his dispatch and photos from Gobi Wave FM 103.6 in Mongolia.
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Gwen Macsai: Online | PDF
From obscurity to NPR, publishing, a side trip to Hollywood, and back to obscurity...
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Errol Morris: Online | PDF
When you watch an Errol Morris documentary, the stunning visuals seduce you. Then you realize you can close your eyes if you want, because the heart of the film is in the voices. We're interested because as radio producers we're responsible for images in the listener's mind.
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Robert Krulwich: Online | PDF
Back when everyone was having a a lot of fun inventing public radio, Robert seemed to be having the most. Check out the best of the Transom conversation with Robert, and enjoy audio samplings of his NPR work from the way too distant early eighties...
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Golding & Verbanac: Online | PDF
A bicycle Odyssey in the tracks of Lewis and Clark to collect material for new radio stories, and for a discussion about the greater glory of radio. Download a copy and let them do the pedaling.
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John Hodgman: Online | PDF
The Former Professional Literary Agent engages the community in a discussion about the promise of radio and the search for REAL vampires - not those of the self proclaimed "psychic" variety.
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Corey Flintoff: Online | PDF
NPR Newscaster Corey Flintoff joined us for a conversation about radio in Mongolia, and reporting the days events with a sense of fairness and integrity.
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Singapore Sling: Online | PDF
Talk Radio in a place once referred to as "a theme-park version of Chinese authoritarianism." Christopher Lydon's "Parachute Radio" drops in on the city-state of Singapore.
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Ellen Rocco: Online | PDF
What is community radio and who does it serve? The Transom community converses with Ellen Rocco and the staff of North Country Public Radio of upstate New York.
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Chris Lydon in Ghana: Online | PDF
Chris Lydon travelled to Accra, Ghana where he hosted a daily call-in talk show on a local radio station. Read about his experiences and listen to some excerpts from the show.
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Deborah Amos: Online | PDF
A conversation with Deborah Amos and her husband Rick Davis about journalism, writing for medium, and the role of broadcast news in today's society.
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Larry Massett: Online | PDF
Seeking out aliens and keeping the fringe alive in public radio.
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Parachute Radio in Jamaica: Online | PDF
Christopher Lydon's report on his recent stint as a radio talk show host... in Jamaica.
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