Writing Like TV in a Podcast

Update: 2025-09-09

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Writing like it's a television drama complete with instructions for a camera operator. That's an unusual maneuver for a podcast. One I'd never heard before. Neither had Susan Burton until she wrote that way herself in the latest season of The Retrievals, a production from Serial and The New York Times.

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Writing Like TV in a Podcast

2025-09-0928:41

Fill Your Pockets With Endings

2025-08-2622:36

Sound Design - Don't Say Rabbit, See Rabbit

2025-08-1216:08

Revisiting: Interviewing Shy People

2025-07-2933:46

Asking Dad Dicey Questions

2025-07-1530:49

Revisiting - Think of a Radio Station (or Podcast) as a Musical Instrument

2025-07-0129:18

Writing Makes All the Difference - Beautifully Braiding Scenes, Stand-Ups, and Narration

2025-06-1709:46

Writing Makes All the Difference: The Episode Handshake

2025-06-0314:39

Revisiting - A Trip to the Dentist

2025-05-2023:25

Writing Makes All the Difference, Part 1

2025-05-0617:22

Revisiting: My Kingdom for Some Structure

2025-04-2221:46

Champions of Old Radio

2025-04-0826:11

Beware the Chicken Bomb

2025-03-2613:15

Amen, Chenjerai (Bonus Episode)

2025-03-1806:38

Amen, Chenjerai

2025-03-1142:05

Revisiting: The Longest Shortest Time

2025-02-2530:04

The Layered Approach - Interviewing for Scenes

2025-02-1117:44

The Backstory to "Our Ancestors Were Messy"

2025-01-2828:21

All Hands On Deck - NPR and the Nixon White House

2025-01-1420:54

Revisiting: First, Tell Them an Anecdote

2024-12-3124:04

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Writing Like TV in a Podcast

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Writing Like TV in a Podcast

Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

Writing Like TV in a Podcast