Today’s most celebrated podcast makers are highly creative editors and sound designers who communicate in bold ways. And the ease of podcast replaying, re-listening and back-scanning on the part of listeners has enabled much more subtle production techniques than in the past. In this episode we listen to some benchmark examples of podcast editing, Lance talks about sound on Blood Culture, and we hear from Brendan Baker, Ellen Horne, Ann Heppermann, and Jad Abumrad.

Written & presented by Martin Spinelli & Lance Dann

Produced by Jack F Jewers & Ella Gray Thomas

Sound by Andrew Duff

Executive produced by Martin Spinelli

Interview contributors: Ellen Horne, Brendan Baker, Ann Heppermann, Jad Abumrad and Miranda Sawyer.

Clips featured: Blood Culture (‘Episode 1 Part 1’), Snap Judgment (‘Fighting Back’), Love + Radio (‘The Pandrogyne’), Serendipity (‘The Lobby’), File on 4 (‘Transforming Rehabilitation: At What Cost?’), Radiolab (‘Things’ and ‘Watching You, Watching Me’).

For Your Ears Only was produced with the support of Arts Council England, Bloomsbury Academic, the University of Sussex, Brighton University, and the British Academy.

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