S1E8: Neal Razzell on Using Sound

The Masterclass Podcast

Sound and silence are the tools of an audio journalist, and their uses – as emphasis, as illustration, as explication or as a chapter break – are manifold. In this episode, the BBC’s Neal Razzell talks through how to make your pieces sing, and how to go one step further with sound.
Show notes
Neal Razzell 's Twitter - @NealRazzell
Spain’s Battle for the Bull (Documentary Podcast, BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p033zrkw
Last Call From Aleppo (Crossing Continents, Radio 4, BBC)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08zd778
Audiograph: The Sound of the Brexit Pound
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043px57
Audiograph: The Sound of Climate Change
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p043pryr
Audiograph: The Sound of Mexican Migration to the US
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04dyfg9
Audiograph: Falling Infant Mortality Rates
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0418j8v
Opposing Obama (BBC World Service)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100128_opposing_obama_part_1.shtml
Podcast series: The Assassination (BBC World Service)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05r6cgx/episodes/downloads
Recorded at the Horwood Studio, University of Melbourne
Host details:
Louisa Lim has been a journalist for more than two decades. She was a foreign correspondent in China for a decade for BBC and NPR. She subsequently wrote a book called The People’s Republic of Amnesia; Tiananmen Revisited, which was named an Economist Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. She co-hosts a podcast on China called The Little Red Podcast with Graeme Smith from the Australian National University. She teaches Audio and Video Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
@limlouisa
Production Team
Buffy Gorrilla is an award-winning audio journalist and a recent graduate of the University of Melbourne’s Master of Journalism programme. Buffy has been a producer at the ABC for
Radio National and ABC Radio Melbourne and is currently working with RN’s Blueprint for Living. She is also host and producer of an podcast for the University of Melbourne called Starting Somewhere.
Ruby Schwartz is a Research Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. She provides research support for books, essays, op-eds and speeches, and co- produces the Vice-Chancellor’s public policy podcast, The Policy Shop. Ruby has co-hosted a weekly intersectional feminist news and current affairs show on 3CR, produces audio stories for FBI Radio’s All The Best and written articles for the Sydney Morning Herald. She was an editorial assistant at The Saturday Paper and wrote a thesis on gendered cyber harassment.

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