Sayre Quevedo is a producer at VICE. “I'm not like a cinephile at all but in a movie nobody says, ‘And then he revealed to me a deep, dark secret.' You discover the deep, dark secret as the main character is learning it. And I just feel like th

45: Bianca Giaever

1 Jul 16th, 2020 40m 57s

Bianca Giaever is the host of Constellation Prize and a producer at The Daily."My favorite radio stories are ones that were passion projects to begin with, that would be un-pitchable from the start because the idea sounds so mundane. .... Boy

44: Wendy Zukerman

1 Jun 23rd, 2020 57m 20s

Wendy Zukerman is the host and executive producer of Science Vs."There is an expectation that if you have a platform you have an agenda. And whereas — for better or worse — me, personally, I don't have particularly strong opinions about thing

43: Nadia Sirota

Oct 24th, 2019 38m 29s

Nadia Sirota is the host and co-creator of Meet the Composer and an acclaimed violist. “I actually feel like somebody being joyful about something in their life is wonderful. ... There's this temptation when you're in college, and definitely

42: Avery Trufelman

Oct 18th, 2018 55m 19s

Avery Trufelman is a producer of 99% Invisible and the host of Articles of Interest.“The literal battleground of interior and exterior forces in your world is what you’re wearing.”

41: Ira Glass

Oct 3rd, 2018 50m 46s

Ira Glass is the host and executive producer of This American Life. “It’s not an accident I made a radio show where I am having intimate conversations with people on tape. ... Like the only person who would go to the trouble to invent somethi

40: Julie Snyder

Sep 26th, 2018 56m 27s

Julie Snyder is the co-creator of Serial and S-Town. Prior to that, she was the senior producer of This American Life."So the original conceit [of This American Life] was using the tools of journalism to [tell stories from] everyday life but

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Dec 3rd, 2017 1m 46s

See host and creator of Science Vs. Wendy Zukerman talk to Mooj at WNYC's The Greene Space TOMORROW Monday December 4th at 7pm.Buy tickets here: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2017/dec/04/podcast-mixtape/

39: Robert Smith

Nov 8th, 2017 1h 31m

Robert Smith is a correspondent for NPR's Planet Money. "I've done [radio] for 30 years. I don't want to come in and do the same story every time. Like I want things to be challenging. … And it's solely for myself. It's solely so I don't soun

38: Alex Blumberg

May 10th, 2017 1h 32m

Alex Blumberg is the co-founder of Gimlet Media. Prior to that he was a producer for This American Life. "A big lesson for me is that there aren't really rules. If [the radio story] is really fun, and you really love it, it's probably going t

37: Lu Olkowski

Feb 21st, 2017 39m 51s

Lu Olkowski, an independent radio producer, is the host of CBC's Love Me."You spend so much time with people and I just think it's so shitty to suddenly — the story airs and you — disappear. ... I think that's terrible. And I just don't want

36: Lewis Wallace

Feb 8th, 2017 1h

Lewis Wallace was a reporter for Marketplace."I think our listeners and audiences are strong enough to hold that I can have a credible voice in reporting a story, and a truthful voice in reporting a story, and also have a perspective."

35: Julia Barton

Jan 24th, 2017 1h 2m

Julia Barton is a freelance editor who edits for Revisionist History, The World, and Studio 360. She reports for Radiolab, Marketplace, 99% Invisible, and more."If people think they might want to be an editor the first step is to pitch to pla

34: Mike Pesca

Jun 27th, 2016 54m 24s

Mike Pesca is the host of Slate's The Gist. "There was a time when the most intelligent guy in your town was just the guy who knew the most — he knew the family genealogy, he knew facts. We've gotten away from that. The facts are there on a c

33: Sruthi Pinnamaneni

Jun 21st, 2016 53m 31s

Sruthi Pinnamaneni is a producer at Reply All. “It’s almost like me and the other person were learning about each other. And I don’t ever think about it like oh this is what makes this person weird or this is a weird moment. It’s just like mo

32: Jonathan Menjivar

May 24th, 2016 59m 24s

Jonathan Menjivar is a producer at This American Life."When I started in radio I imagined myself on the radio more. But I've come to a place where it doesn't matter to me. I just want to make stuff."

31: Emily Botein

Apr 14th, 2016 38m 50s

Emily Botein is the Vice President for On-Demand Content of WNYC."I feel like as a producer, the whole goal is to have someone become more human, reveal something more personal, say something surprising. So it's your job to make an unrealisti

30: Jessica Abel

Mar 1st, 2016 30m 14s

Jessica Abel is the author of Out on the Wire."The group edit format, while emotionally difficult, actually is an incredibly efficient tool. In an hour, two hours, you can get the intellectual work done on a piece that could take weeks withou

29: Tim Howard

Jan 26th, 2016 1h

Tim Howard is the senior producer of Reply All. "You can do radio stories without stakes they just have to be really fun."

28: Jacob Goldstein

Dec 9th, 2015 45m 28s

Jacob Goldstein is a reporter for NPR's Planet Money."I've never been that interested in the classic investigative story — here's this victim and here's this villain, and implicitly, I, the reporter, am the hero. ... They were never the kind

27: Audie Cornish

Oct 14th, 2015 32m 10s

Audie Cornish is the host of All Things Considered."I ran a gauntlet of people who underestimated me. Every subject is like, "Are you the intern?" Every lawmaker is like, "I don't understand who you are?" People don't see me so when they fina

26: Sean Rameswaram

Sep 21st, 2015 46m 12s

Sean Rameswaram is the host of sideshow."On the outside, which I was on the outside for a long time, I thought public radio takes itself too seriously. My favorite moments in public radio are when Scott Simon interviews Ke$ha. We don't need t

25: Kaitlin Prest

Jul 9th, 2015 43m 29s

Note: This episode is explicit.Kaitlin Prest is the host and creative director of The Heart."My whole thing about making stuff is I want it to *feel* like the thing. If you're making a show about love, I want to feel like I'm falling in lov

24: Anshuman Iddamsetty

May 27th, 2015 49m 7s

Anshuman Iddamsetty is Hazlitt’s art director and audio/visual producer.*"I stare at waveforms constantly. So like I'm staring at the layout of the waveforms more than anything. There is a sort of visual component to how the show finally come

23: David Weinberg

May 19th, 2015 52m 25s

David Weinberg, a former Marketplace producer, is part of KCRW's Independent Producer Project and the creator of Random Tape."I felt so trapped before I found and decided that radio is what I wanted to do. I placed a lot on this as being the