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Meeting with Joe Richman of Radio Diaries

December 19th, 2006

Steve Vosloo met with Joe Richman of Radio Diaries to introduce the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP) and ask for general advice. The award-winning Radio Diaries “works with ordinary people to document their own lives for public radio.” For example, Thembi’s AIDS Diary covers a year in the life of a South African teenager who is struggling to live with AIDS.

Joe offered this advice on producing good quality audio stories: 1) it’s a real skill to produce compelling audio, 2) it takes a lot more time to edit than you think, so 3) if you’re working with a group of youth, make their involvement as simple as possible, e.g. get them to interview each other, read from prepared texts or record very short sound bites such as their dog barking.

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