This textbook offers a practical guide to creating narratives in audio media. It is one of the
most beautiful and complex tasks in radio and podcasting: how do you tell a compelling story
and keep your listeners tuned in? In Storytelling in Radio and Podcasts Preger offers
practical answers to crucial questions: What material is suitable for long stories? How can I
bind listeners to a real story for 15 30 or 60 minutes? Or even get them excited about a whole
series? How do I maintain suspense from beginning to end? How do I find my narrative voice? And
how do I develop a sound design for complex narratives? Richly illustrated using practical
examples the book guides the reader through various stages of developing a non-fiction
narrative and examines structure character development suspense narration sound-design and
ethics.
