From time to time, Transom features articles on How to Begin. This time, writer Bill McKibben (The New Yorker, The Atlantic, "The End of Nature," etc.) picks up a microphone and begins making a radio piece. He tells us what it was like. His article links to both the radio and the print pieces that came from his reporting. For anyone considering the switch from print to radio, this will be edifying.
Lovely piece. It certainly doesn't *sound* like you had any difficulty crafting it!
But- your frustrations over time and economy are familiar to us all in radio world. I’m wondering- did the radio piece follow the written piece? Were you working on them at the same time? I know that a lot of writers/producers spin written pieces off of radio work and vice versa, but do you think it would have been easier to approach a radio piece thinking only of that medium- it’s strengths and weakness- when you started out? Did you treat them as totally separate pieces, or were you working with the same basic structure?
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