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Guides for recording audio interviews and sounds

last updated: 06.10.09

If you're starting out on an audio recording adventure and would like some guidance and advice, here are some links for you.

Veteran US radio freelance producer Jay Allison has written a very comprehensive guide for budding radio makers here

The US independent Knight Citizen News Network has a good on-line training course Interviewing: a practical guide for citizen journalists

The UK's Channel 4 hosted a participatory documentaries project called 4Docs for now its on hold but they have left a valuable web archive of training resources and contributed videos here It is primarily for video documentary production but covers sound and has good sections on planning, scripting, rights clearance, and story lines that equally apply to radio.

If you find other radio resources please contact us so we can add them, to this page.

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