Wondering Aloud

Are the books you "read" read by someone else?

The Audio Publishers Association says one in four Americans listened to an audio book in 2008. Biographies, suspense novels, romance and children’s books to educational texts all need a narrator... Someone like Walter Dixon, who talks about what it takes to get into the business, tricks of the trade and the art of doing multiple voices, on stage in the theater of the mind.

Audio Embed: BBC, PRI & WBUR's Here & Now 5/20/10, Host: Robin Young.

Video Embed: MSNBC

In the late 90's, John Pellegrini (then head of production at WLS/Chicago) wrote extensively (in Radio And Production Magazine) about the need to embrace radio as an intimate medium, not an immediate one. It can take some time to open up the imagination... But it's worth it.

Embedded audio: John Hockenberry The Infinite Mind NPR (9/10/08) and Dick Summer I Love Being Invisible Goodnight Podcast (5/16/10)