How I Made a Snap Story from Sound School Podcast

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Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Producer, Ruby Schwartz, pitched us a story. We said yes. But then Ruby had a new problem: how do you turn a 320-page memoir into a radio story?

This feature pulls back the curtain on how this week’s Snap episode, “The Wedding Guest” was made.

Thank you, Rob Rosenthal and Ruby Schwartz, for sharing this process! This piece came to us from our friends at the Sound School Podcast. Listen to the original version here.

Looking for ways to learn about storytelling and how to podcast? Subscribe to the Sound School Podcast (formerly known as HowSound). It’s still from PRX. It’s still from Transom. Just a new name. Find it all places you subscribe to podcasts!

Interested in reading the memoir featured in this episode? Check out The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng.

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 - Episode 42

Transcript

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:14.5	Okay, you feel me, Snamers, with the podcasting.
0:18.5	You can press the button, and there it is.
0:21.3	A great story, told and sound, and when the story hits, it's magic, right?
0:28.1	But what if you could get a glimpse behind the scenes?
0:32.1	And see, what it really takes to make magic happen?
0:35.5	Rob Rosenthaw can help.
0:38.2	Rob is a show called Sound School Podcast.
0:41.4	He's produced a show for PRX and Transome.org for over a decade, hundreds of episodes.
0:47.3	You may know it as how sound.
0:49.8	Yes, there has been a name change, and in every episode of the Sound School Podcast,
0:55.7	Rob dives in to the Nitty Gritty.
0:59.2	He interviews radio and podcast producers and reporters about the craft of audio storytelling.
1:05.6	People like Roman Mars from 99% and visible, Elise Spiegel from Invisibility, Al Letson
1:12.4	from Reveal, and Ruby Schwartz from Snap Judgment.
1:16.4	Now, this week's Snap, the wedding guest.
1:19.4	It's in your podcast feed right now.
1:21.8	Ruby tells the story of Iek, a child soldier in Sudan.
1:26.6	Captures as a young boy abused by paramilitary forces until he finally, at great peril, makes
1:33.8	his escape.
1:35.6	And years later, as an adult, Iek runs into the very same man who tortured him as a child.
1:41.0	Runs it to him at a wedding.
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