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http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Witness-to-an-Execution.mp3 Download Listen to “Witness to an Execution” One of the most difficult questions you could ask me is “What’s your favorite album?” I listen to so much music, answering that is impossible. Same with audio documentaries. How can anyone pick their favs? There are SO many good ones?

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Jad-and-FayFay-Talk-_Fela-Kuti_-Fear-No-Man_.mp3 Download Listen to “Jad and Fay Fay Talk “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man” ” “We were trying to map out the series and we drew a river.” Then Jad – as in Jad Abumrad — went on to say “This series needs to feel like you’re going down a river and each episode is an eddy in the stream…that was our visual metaphor.” So very often, editors and writers...

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On March 11, 2026, “Being American” — a live storytelling show Transom produced with ten brave Vermonters — sold out Retreat Farm‘s North Barn in Brattleboro VT. It was the most people ever at the venue. The audience laughed, cried, and gave our storytellers enough love to fill the giant timber-frame barn. The sold-out house of Retreat Farm’s timber-frame barn The show was hosted by historian and author Jill Lepore and longtime radio personality Tom Bodett.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Salman-Khans-March-to-_More-Muslim_.mp3 Download Listen to “Salman Khan’s March to “More Muslim”” The more I talked to Salman Khan, the more I realized his road to podcasting was not a long walk or a climb up a steep hill. It was a slow, persistent march. How slow? About 12 years. How persistent? Salman lays it out on this episode of Sound School and it’s an inspiring story.

I recently got a call from the tiny, venerable San Francisco radio station KALW asking for advice on how to support a member of their Audio Academy. KALW is famous (at least among select Bay Area residents and public-radio nerds) for incubating 99 Percent Invisible, Radio Ambulante, and the early demo recordings that would become Snap Judgment.

The Transom Story Lab is celebrating its 25th anniversary with Transom 25, a festival taking place September 17โ€“19 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Click here for tickets! This gathering will bring together many of the most thoughtful and influential voices in radio and podcasting โ€” and anyone curious about how great audio stories are made โ€” for three days devoted to the art of storytelling with sound.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Silence-is-Worth-Your-Time.mp3 Download Listen to “Silence Is Worth Your Time” Here are the two questions I hear the most when I tell someone I’m walking the perimeter of Cape Cod: “How far is it?” and “Why?” The answer to the first question is: I have no idea. And, I don’t really care.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/howsound/p/transom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Revisiting-A-Cow-A-Day.mp3 Download Listen to “Revisiting: A Cow a Day” One of my favorite paintings is a painting of nothing. Or so it seems. Robert Rauschenberg painted it in 1951. It consists of three panels painted white. That’s it. The first time I stood in front of that painting at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art I thought “What the??!” I think it’s easy to have that impression.