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There's something about Louis' voice; it's both wise and callow. It feels like he has the answers while he's searching for them. Louis used to rob people on the street, but he stopped. Now, he's trying to reconcile the person he was with the person he is and wants to be. Louis worked with Anthony Mascorro at 826NYC to tell this powerful, complicated story. (By the way, it was nice for us to learn that Anthony acquired his editing chops at Transom.) We all hope you'll visit Transom to listen, and talk to Louis and Anthony about their piece.

In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real people. Watch. Enjoy. And then come join the conversation at Transom.org.

In case you haven't seen them already, we thought we'd post these animation gems. They are the work of our current Guests - the team behind Creature Comforts. All the voices come from interviews with real people. Watch. Enjoy. And then come join the conversation at Transom.org.

Transom is proud to welcome the creative team behind our favorite animated series, Creature Comforts. If you haven't seen it, get thee quickly to their Transom pages and catch up. This series comes from Aardman Animation in England (home of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc.), and is inhabited by claymation animals whose identities are derived from audio interviews with real people. There's a kinship between radio and animation, because we all imagine the source of voices we hear, and if our imaginations are free-ranging and whimsical, the voices might look like this.

Kit Boss, Richard "Golly" Goleszowski, and Dan Sinclair talk to Transom's Samantha Broun. The conversation is transcribed, illustrated with audio/video, and is downloadable in MP3. There's also a "Making Of" video, and all sorts of background and technique, including interviewing. And you can ask questions. This is good stuff. You'll like it.

Transom is proud to welcome the creative team behind our favorite animated series, Creature Comforts. If you haven't seen it, get thee quickly to their Transom pages and catch up. This series comes from Aardman Animation in England (home of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc.), and is inhabited by claymation animals whose identities are derived from audio interviews with real people. There's a kinship between radio and animation, because we all imagine the source of voices we hear, and if our imaginations are free-ranging and whimsical, the voices might look like this.

Kit Boss, Richard "Golly" Goleszowski, and Dan Sinclair talk to Transom's Samantha Broun. The conversation is transcribed, illustrated with audio/video, and is downloadable in MP3. There's also a "Making Of" video, and all sorts of background and technique, including interviewing. And you can ask questions. This is good stuff. You'll like it.

Transom wants talented people to try public radio. When we first featured Jonathan Katz's audio work, he was making funny little pieces in his attic studio. Then, we helped him produce a fake call-in show , with his friends--David Cross, Sarah Silverman, Al Franken, David Mamet, et. al.--playing the callers. Now, we've produced a radio hour from Jonathan's stand-up performance at Jimmy Tingle's Off-Broadway Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It features Tom Snyder, Bill Braudis, Tom Leopold, H. Jon Benjamin and others. It also features lots of jokes about Multiple Sclerosis, a disease which Jonathan has had for many years. Don't worry, it's funny... funny enough that you didn't have to be there. Judge for yourself.

In this piece Laquoia Simmons, a self described at risk teenager," meets and briefly interviews renowned academic and public intellectual Cornel West. In this insightful piece, Laquoia reflects on her trip to Sonoma State University, and discusses what it was like to be an 'at-risk' young woman meeting a writer who writes so much about the so-called 'at-risk' population. In this personal and intellectual piece, she talks about family, betrayal, humiliation, and inspiration.