Sound School Podcast
Sound School Podcast
Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org
The Value Of A Sympathetic Character
21 minutes Posted Apr 3, 2018 at 9:51 am.
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What do you do when the main character in a story is strange, bizarre, and weird? So crazy listeners might tune out? One answer is to find a sympathetic character, someone the audience can relate to. Producer Ann Heppermann explains how Glynn Washington was the perfect sympathetic character as the narrator of the "Heaven's Gate" podcast, the series about the cult that committed the largest mass suicide in the United States.