Best of Radiotopia - Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative

Radiotopia Presents: Red for Revolution

Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Fiction

4.4 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Best of Radiotopia 2024 - Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative - “Just a Girl with a Microphone."

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0:00.0	You're listening to Radiotopia Presents from PRX's Radiotopia.
0:07.1	Hi, this is Audrey. And next up in the best of Radiotopia 2024, we actually have something from this very podcast, and it's the first episode of our latest series, shocking, heartbreaking, transformative. It was created and
0:23.2	hosted by Jess Shane, edited by Sarah Nix, sound designed by Michelle Macklam, and the managing
0:30.2	producer was Yuri Lassorto, and the executive producer was me. If you're a regular listener
0:36.6	to Radiotopia Presents, then you may have already heard
0:39.3	the series, but if you haven't yet, I want to tell you a little bit about what it was like working on it.
0:46.3	Radiotopia Presents is our home for limited series. And if you're not in the podcast business,
0:51.6	you may not know that funding for limited series is increasingly difficult to come by.
0:56.9	Even though I'm sure you as a listener know that limited series are probably some of your
1:01.5	very favorite things to listen to.
1:04.1	That's why we've maintained a commitment to funding and supporting limited series from
1:08.3	independent creators.
1:10.8	When you come and work with us on Presents, you get editorial support and guidance. and supporting limited series from independent creators.
1:15.5	When you come and work with us on Presents, you get editorial support and guidance from Radiotopia, and you get a platform to share your work on and a bunch of expertise from all
1:20.2	of us at PRX. We provide marketing support, and we've helped shows apply for grants and awards.
1:26.2	It's a lot of work to create these series,
1:28.7	and we want to help take as much of that burden off as we can.
1:34.6	This series, shocking, heartbreaking, transformative, is unlike anything we've ever worked on here.
1:41.4	It's a four-part nonfiction series about the nuts and bolts of storytelling,
1:46.1	the power dynamics between documentary makers and subjects, and rewriting unwritten rules of the
1:52.3	documentary. It goes behind the scenes, and in addition to documenting subjects, Jess also documented
2:00.0	us? We recorded our production calls and our business calls. to documenting subjects, Jess also documented us.
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