NPR's Planet Money convinced us that economics could be not just interesting, but entertaining too. In this episode, host and producer Robert Smith shares the backstories and spills all his secrets about what goes into the making of this podcas

The Making of An Impossible Choice: Audio Journalism vs. Print Journalism

Feb 27th, 2022 43m 53s

What are the differences between audio and print journalism? Audiocraft Executive Producer Jessica Bineth talks to Guardian writer and host Cherelle Jackson and Guardian Pacific Editor and Executive Producer Kate Lyons about the making of the G

The Making of Pillow Talk: Online Intimacy Through Sound

Nov 26th, 2021 33m 25s

How do you create audio that makes you feel as though you're in someone's body? Host Laura Nagy, Audiocraft Senior Producer Jess Hamilton, Audiocraft Sound Engineer Adam Connelly and Composer Freya Berkhout sit down to chat all about collaborat

The Making of Search Engine Sex: Searching for the Right Answers

Oct 29th, 2021 30m 21s

So how do you have sex? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producers Bernadette Nguyen and Selena Shannon chat with creator and host Rowdie Walden about developing and producing Spotify Australia and New Zealand’s first origi

The Making of Not Alone: Telling Stories About Mental Health

Sep 10th, 2021 32m 21s

How do you ensure the best outcome for everyone when talking about mental health distress? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producer Sam Loy talks to Beyond Blue’s Darcy Sutton and Sarah Alexander about the making of award-

Sounds of July 31 2020 — Mic on Nature Soundscape

Dec 17th, 2020 14m 43s

This bonus episode of the Audiocraft Podcast is the Mic on Nature soundscape, collected by Audiocraft attendees all around the world and edited together by the team behind the Brain on Nature podcast.To hear more about the sounds you hear, and

Queer Audio Stories

Dec 16th, 2020 45m 38s

For three years the podcast Nancy (WNYC) told stories about the queer experience, from a queer perspective. In conversation with Benjamin Law (Stop Everything!) co-hosts Tobin Low and Kathy Tu reflect on what they learnt from making the podcast

Beyond Transcripts

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 4m

Accessibility is not a checklist you can tick off — it’s the pathway between a disabled person and the thing they're trying to access. Erin Kyan (Passer Vulpes Productions) shares language, tools and knowledge so you can take your thinking abou

Go With The Flow

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 6m

Ready to dive deep into spreadsheets and file sharing? In this episode Audiocraft’s Selena Shannon tackles podcast project management and gives you the tools you need to whip your workflow into shape.Transcript available here Hosted on Acast. S

Under the Hood: Project O

Dec 16th, 2020 48m 54s

True collaboration is more than just working together. Good collaborations can change the entire scope of a project, and audio-making objectives. In this episode, go Under the Hood with a long-term collaboration between Big hART, Audiocraft and

The Power of Audio

Dec 16th, 2020 36m 53s

Matt Lieber is head of podcast operations at Spotify and the co-founder of Gimlet Media. In this episode, you’ll hear Matt’s story on how Gimlet was built and why they joined Spotify, as well as what all this tells us about the growth of audio

Risky Business

Dec 16th, 2020 52m 22s

Five audio makers give provocations on the theme ‘risk’; what risk sounds like, how it feels to take it, how we make room for taking risk in our storytelling. Who defines what’s ‘risky’ or ‘safe’, in an audio story, a career, an industry? After

Story Through Sound

Dec 16th, 2020 1h 11m

Some stories have sound at their core. A stand-out example of this is BBC eco-thriller Forest 404, where bird calls haunt the mind of the protagonist and archival sounds are wiped from living memory one-by-one. How can we centre sound in our wr

Audio Journalism Vs Covid-19

Dec 16th, 2020 47m 31s

Science journalism had a lot of heavy lifting to do in 2020. In this episode, hear Wendy Zukerman (Science Vs) talk about fact checking Covid-19 news and information as it developed, and turning that news into compelling, entertaining audio sto

Mic on Nature

Dec 16th, 2020 56m 10s

At Audiocraft 2020 we asked you to turn your microphones on the world around you. What we heard back from around the world were city-scapes, chicken clucks, cat meows, rain and footsteps, tui calls and animal grunts. Olivia Rosenman and Sarah A

Under the Hood: Birds Eye View

Dec 16th, 2020 53m 56s

One of the breakout independent podcasts of 2020, Birds Eye View is a collaboration between women in the Darwin Correctional Centre and StoryProjects. In this episode, Renae ‘Rocket’ Bretherton and Johanna Bell reflect on the process of making

Pitch Perfect 2020

Dec 16th, 2020 58m 28s

Three brave producers pitch their podcast ideas live to Spotify, and receive feedback on their idea in real-time from Spotify commissioners Liz Gateley (US), Unni Nambudripad (India) & Leah Harris (Australia & New Zealand). In this episode, you

Hey Aunty! Live

Oct 22nd, 2019 1h 2m

On podcast Hey Aunty! host Shantel Wetherall shares fireside chats with black women and non-binary siblings who’ve been there. In this episode recorded live at Audiocraft Podcast Festival, Shantel asks guests Faith Chaza and Renee Williamson: H

The Objects of Interviewing

Oct 15th, 2019 1h 1m

An incredible interview takes any topic and turns it into gripping listening by finding the humanity at the heart of the story. It’s not always easy. In Everything is Alive, Ian Chillag flirts with fact and fiction, and manages to find the mome

What I Wish I Knew

Oct 8th, 2019 46m 10s

If you could go back in time to before you hit publish on your very first episode, what piece of advice would you give yourself? Five podcasters give their past selves a good talking-to and share wisdom that you can apply to your own podcast ri

Stories and Squiggly Lines

Oct 1st, 2019 50m 19s

How will we tell audio stories in the future? Three leading artists and technological experimenters consider the innovations inspiring new forms of audio storytelling and production. Olivia Rosenman (Google’s Creative Lab / History Lab), Sam Ha

Writing for the Ear to See (Third Coast Pocket Conference)

Sep 24th, 2019 1h 9m

We make stories for the ear, but there’s no escaping the highly visual nature of the work we produce.No other medium allows its audience to see as imaginatively, as privately, and as sensitively, as audio. But how do we go about accessing this

All Stories Are Stories About Power (Third Coast Pocket Conference)

Sep 17th, 2019 1h 33m

Two moments are colliding: An oppressive politics of hate and repression, and a boom in narrative storytelling. So how do we use one to confront the other? Chenjerai Kumanyika and Sandhya Dirks offer techniques to explode traditional narratives

Bodies of Sound

Sep 10th, 2019 57m 5s

There’s a wall between our ideas, dreams and desires and the real world: our body. Meat is a podcast about our bodies and the lives we live because of them. Experience Jonathan Zenti’s masterful storytelling and hear about the creative process

Arrogant Aunt

Sep 3rd, 2019 46m 30s

In the Arrogant Aunt episodes of the Sisteria podcast, guests answer questions ‘with authority they just don’t have’—an exercise in defeating imposter syndrome in all of us. In this Audiocraft edition, Sisteria’s Stephanie Van Schilt, along wit