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Reflection Post: “How I got into College”
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I recommend that anyone who has time listen to thisamericanlife.org. It is a program that I have found a lot of interesting shows on the site and have listened to several different pieces on over the course of the semester. I think they all tell great stories and use techniques that we are using in this very class. One of the most interesting things about these stories is that it proves that some stories have to be heard they cannot just be written down. There is a particular style to these kinds of scripts. They use tools like overlaying music ...
Ira Glass: an expert storyteller
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Ira Glass has three things you need to be likeable on radio: firstly, a soft, intimate voice that makes you feel like he’s talking directly to you across your kitchen table; secondly, the humility to discuss his own work as something not innately brilliant, but as the culmination of many years of hard graft; and thirdly, a brilliant ear for wonderful, personal stories that make for compelling listening. This American Life, which I’d never listened to before this week, is a kind of Reader’s Digest on the radio – that is, a sweetshop of tasty morsels, none of which you’d never ...