Things noticed during the Sleep podcast that could be considered for our own sound essay:

• sound FX
• engaging/enthusiastic conversation
• on location things: field recordings
• interview excerpts from on location staff/events
• atmospheric tracks (sound beds)
• range of pace
• radio’s intimacy
• layering/texture
• dynamics of the speakers: one who knows, one who keeps asking questions
• humour
• outside (almost random) references  (eg the Metallica song)
• breaking it out in clear “segments”

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I really enjoyed listening to RadioLab and certainly makes me more excited and less daunted to work on my own sound essay. The possibilities are exciting in what, for me, is a largely unexplored medium. Refer to a previous blog post of mine discussing/slightly fan girling about a BBC radio drama. This sound stuff is awesome.