A radio documentary or feature is a radio documentary programme devoted to covering a particular topic in some depth, usually with a mixture of commentary and sound pictures. Some radio features, especially those including specially composed music or other pieces of audio art, resemble radio drama in many ways, though non-fictional in subject matter, while others consist principally of more straightforward, journalistic-type reporting – but at much greater length than found in an ordinary news report.

Contents 1 Quotes 2 Notable radio documentary and feature makers 3 External links 4 Notable resources

[edit] Quotes

"At its best, radio combines the power and immediacy of great documentary films with the intimacy and poetry of a New Yorker-style magazine piece." (Columbia Graduate School of Journalism)

"Staring red-eyed at the mirror in front of me, having spent another day and half of the night with my computer, I ask myself fundamental questions: Why radio? Why documentary? Answer: No other medium can provide me with more freedom of creation and investigation. It meets my urgent interest in reality and the desire for a 'musical' expression. The material (der Werkstoff) is sound. And sound always surrounds us. And: I'm not so much interested in the description of stable situations, but in processes. Our medium is not space, but time; our stories are not glued to the ground, but have motion, life ... That's why!" (Helmut Kopetzky, German author)

[edit] Notable radio documentary and feature makers

• American RadioWorks
• Noah Adams
• Jay Allison
• Deb Amos
• John Biewen
• Melissa Bloch
• Alex Blumberg
• Kyla Brettle
• Scott Carrier
• Alex Chadwick
• Bill Drake
• Joe Frank
• John Gilliland
• Ira Glass (and This American Life)
• Glenn Gould (The Solitude Trilogy)
• David Gutnick [The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]
• Berit Hedemann (Prix Europa Yleisradio 1997 and 1998)
• David Isay
• Kitchen Sisters
• Robert Krulwich
• Bill Lichtenstein
• Bosse Lindquist (Prix Futura/Prix Europa 1995, Prix Europa 2000, special commendations at Prix Italia 1998 & Prix Europa 2002)
• Ewan MacColl
• Charles Parker
• Joe Richman
• Lorenz Rollhäuser (Prix Europa 2008)
• Steve Rowland
• Keith Talbott
• Nancy Updike
• Peter Leonhard Braun

[edit] External links

• AudioDocumentary.org
• Guide to ABC RN for Freelancers
• ABC Radio National Radio Eye
• ABC The Night Air
• CultureWorks
• Feature-Portal (in German)
• Hearing Voices
• Lichtenstein Creative Media
• Sound Portraits
• The Radio Ballads
• Radio Diaries
• Amateur stories
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• Swedish Radio, The Documentary Department
• RTE - Documentary on One - Irish Radio Documentaries

[edit] Notable resources

• Association of Independents in Radio
• Transom.org
• Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
• Pacifica Radio Network's Audioport
• Public Radio eXchange
• Radio College
• Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
• Third Coast International Audio Festival

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