Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound

Over the past few decades, the radio documentary had developed into a vibrant form of creative expression. Millions of listeners hear arresting, intimate storytelling from an ever widening array of producers on programs including This American Life, Story Corps, and Radio Lab; online through such sites as Transom, PRX Hearing Voices, and Soundprint; and through a growing collection of podcasts.

Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. In these twenty essays, documentary artists tell-and demonstrate, through stories and transcripts-how they make radio the way they do, and why.