Introducing… Showcase from Radiotopia
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Radiotopia is pleased to introduce Showcase, a new podcast featuring original series of all stripes, from producers around the world. For this intro episode, Roman Mars (99% Invisible host / creator and Radiotopia partner) talks with Julie Shapiro (Radiotopia executive producer) about the project. Hint: This is a podcast for the adventurous listener.
Plus! Hear a preview of the first Showcase series, a six-parter about listening in the digital age, from acclaimed musician, writer and thinker Damon Krukowski (Galaxie 500, Damon and Naomi). Each episode looks at a different way that the switch from analog to digital audio is changing our perceptions: of time, space, love, money, and power. Subscribe now to hear Ways of Hearing when it launches on Friday, August 4th.
Learn more at radiotopia.fm/showcase.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Roman Mars. I'm in the radio shed behind my house, but I am talking to Julie Shapiro in the PRX podcast garage. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, I'm Julie Shapiro, I'm executive producer of Radiotopia, and we're going to talk about |
| 0:19.7 | showcase. case. |
| 0:25.0 | And this is very much your project that you're spearheading. |
| 0:30.0 | So can you tell us a little bit about Showcase and how it serves the mission of |
| 0:33.1 | Radio Topia? Sure, well Showcase directly came out of our experience with |
| 0:37.1 | Podquest which we ran about a year ago where we invited anyone and everyone to |
| 0:41.8 | submit podcast ideas about whatever they were interested in or |
| 0:44.7 | wanted to make a podcast about. |
| 0:46.8 | And we got over 1500 entries and we chose one. |
| 0:49.3 | It was called Ear Hustle. |
| 0:50.3 | It's now a show in Radiotopia, but the thing that... |
| 0:54.0 | Incredibly popular show in the |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, it's a show we're very, very proud of and amazed at the response it's been getting, |
| 1:01.0 | etc. |
| 1:02.0 | But the point was we had so many great ideas, |
| 1:04.9 | but they weren't all necessarily sustainable long-term show |
| 1:08.9 | ideas and thought, well, what if Radiotopia |
| 1:10.8 | could get behind a podcast that featured all of these different ideas |
| 1:15.3 | one after another? |
| 1:17.2 | Without them being a separate podcast that had to go out and gain their own audience and live |
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