Radio documentary
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A radio documentary or feature is a radio 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.
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"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
- John Biewen
- Kyla Brettle
- Ira Glass
- Berit Hedemann (Prix Europa Yleisradio 1997 and 1998)
- David Isay
- Bill Lichtenstein
- Ewan MacColl
- Charles Parker
- Joe Richman
- Steve Rowland
[edit] External links
- ABC Radio National Radio Eye
- ABC The Night Air
- CultureWorks
- Feature-Portal (in German)
- Lichtenstein Creative Media
- Sound Portraits
- The Radio Ballads
- Radio Diaries
- Amature stories
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[edit] Notable resources
- Association of Independents in Radio
- Transom.org
- Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
- Public Radio eXchange
- Radio College
- Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
- Third Coast International Audio Festival
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