Our cultural obsession with well-crafted audio stories has been steadily increasing since the birth of podcasting. Will we ever lose the thrill of a good narrative or tire of familiar formulas? Most of today’s best podcasters don’t think so. In this episode we’ll unpick arcs, reflect on moments of reflection and hear ideas on ‘story’ from Ann Heppermann, Ellen Horne and Jad Abumrad.
Written & presented by Martin Spinelli & Lance Dann
Produced by Ella Gray Thomas & Jack F Jewers
Sound by Andrew Duff
Additional music by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under creative commons.
Voice acting by Eoin McKenna & Rachael Sparkes
Executive produced by Martin Spinelli
Interview contributors: Ann Hepperman, Ellen Horne, Kaitlin Prest, Dana Chivvis and Jad Abumrad
Clips featured: Radiolab (‘Space’)
For Your Ears Only was produced with the support of Arts Council England, Bloomsbury Academic, the University of Sussex, Brighton University, and the British Academy.
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