The best stories – even the written ones – have audio. Maybe it’s a sensibility: voice or style, which Ben Yagoda explores in his craft book The Sound on the Page. Maybe it’s a structural/pacing device (think of the … Read more
[This is Part 3 in our series stealing the best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the CBC’s Dispatches radio program. Parts 1 and 2 ran earlier this week.] We at Dispatches have seen thousands of first-draft scripts … Read more
Dispatches is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio News weekly show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Most are by traveling freelancers. Many are from CBC reporters on the trail of breaking news for our … Read more