Telling Stories
SARAH GEIS
Sarah is a independent radio producer and editor, a former artistic director of Third Coast and the keeper of audioplayground.xyz. We fell in love with Sarah’s piece for BBC Shortcuts Geis & Geis: Pinball Machine Distributors. But as our conversation with her twisted and turned we ended up asking Sarah about her piece No Bad News which tells the story of American hypnotist Larry Garrett and Uday Hussein, son of Sadam Husein. This episode explores the art of interviewing and the interesting moral and ethical decisions around the stories we tell. You can listen to the episode here.
RESOURCES
Sarah’s Top Picks:
Cat Names by Joseph Keckler, via Radiotonic
Espera by Sayre Quevedo
The Leaves, Frost Crisp’d, Break from the Trees by Jaye Kranz for Falling Tree Productions
The Rebuttal by Leah Menzer and Maya Goldberg-Safir for The Rebuttal
Burn from Buzzfeed’s Another Round
Artificial Treatment by Gretchen Bender
Dunkin’ Donuts by Erica Heilman for Rumble Strip
Subtext: Communicating with Horses by Jay Allison
Frozen Garbage: Other Peoples’ Dreams by Natalie Kestecher and Sophie Townsend for Radiotonic
Lesson Two, Sell Your Heart by Cathy FitzGerald for The Invisible College
Our Top Picks:
Geis & Geis: Pinball Machine Distributors by Sarah Geis
TAKEAWAYS
Listen to as many stories as you can - and listen again.
CHALLENGES
To say goodbye to a sound of 2020.