What are the differences between audio and print journalism? Audiocraft Executive Producer Jessica Bineth talks to Guardian writer and host Cherelle Jackson and Guardian Pacific Editor and Executive Producer Kate Lyons about the making of the Guardian's Full Story series An Impossible Choice. Full Story is the Guardian's daily podcast providing a deeper understanding to the headlines in Australia and beyond. The series An Impossible Choice spoke to Pacific Islanders who have been forced to make devastating decisions due to a climate crisis not of their making.

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How do you create audio that makes you feel as though you're in someone's body? Host Laura Nagy, Audiocraft Senior Producer Jess Hamilton, Audiocraft Sound Engineer Adam Connelly and Composer Freya Berkhout sit down to chat all about collaborating on Audible’s Pillow Talk, a podcast memoir-documentary series detailing Laura’s personal experiences in the ASMR online community.

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So how do you have sex? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producers Bernadette Nguyen and Selena Shannon chat with creator and host Rowdie Walden about developing and producing Spotify Australia and New Zealand’s first original podcast Search Engine Sex, a podcast answering the internet’s most burning sex and relationship questions.

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How do you ensure the best outcome for everyone when talking about mental health distress? In this episode of the Audiocraft Podcast, Audiocraft producer Sam Loy talks to Beyond Blue’s Darcy Sutton and Sarah Alexander about the making of award-winning podcast Not Alone, a podcast hosted by Mark Fennell where everyday Australians talk about their mental health journey to help you with yours. 

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This bonus episode of the Audiocraft Podcast is the Mic on Nature soundscape, collected by Audiocraft attendees all around the world and edited together by the team behind the Brain on Nature podcast.

To hear more about the sounds you hear, and about the making of Brain on Nature, listen to Episode 11: Mic on Nature. This episode is pure soundscape, so you can revisit it anytime.

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Three brave producers pitch their podcast ideas live to Spotify, and receive feedback on their idea in real-time from Spotify commissioners Liz Gateley (US), Unni Nambudripad (India) & Leah Harris (Australia & New Zealand). In this episode, you’ll learn about what it takes for an idea to go from a brainwave in the shower to a hit in your headphones, and what makes a strong pitch.

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Ready to dive deep into spreadsheets and file sharing? In this episode Audiocraft’s Selena Shannon tackles podcast project management and gives you the tools you need to whip your workflow into shape.

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Some stories have sound at their core. A stand-out example of this is BBC eco-thriller Forest 404, where bird calls haunt the mind of the protagonist and archival sounds are wiped from living memory one-by-one. How can we centre sound in our writing and production? In this episode writer Timothy X Atack and director Becky Ripley tell you how they went about creating this very special sonic world.

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Matt Lieber is head of podcast operations at Spotify and the co-founder of Gimlet Media. In this episode, you’ll hear Matt’s story on how Gimlet was built and why they joined Spotify, as well as what all this tells us about the growth of audio storytelling and the future of the industry.

Matt’s joined for questions by Prithi Dey, Podcast Partner Manager at Spotify Australia and New Zealand.

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Accessibility is not a checklist you can tick off — it’s the pathway between a disabled person and the thing they're trying to access. Erin Kyan (Passer Vulpes Productions) shares language, tools and knowledge so you can take your thinking about podcast accessibility beyond just transcripts, and make your production more accessible, both in front of and behind the mic. If you're looking for some extra resources on accessibility here is a list the Audiocraft team put together https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I-xB-cWrCYoLkGTLLya-VXoqsnquMIBi

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Five audio makers give provocations on the theme ‘risk’; what risk sounds like, how it feels to take it, how we make room for taking risk in our storytelling. Who defines what’s ‘risky’ or ‘safe’, in an audio story, a career, an industry? After listening to Pat Abboud (ABC / JCAF), Sarah Dingle (ABC), Marlee Silva (Tiddas 4 Tiddas / Always was, always will be our stories), Jessica Hamilton (Slaughterhouse Road) and Renay Richardson (Broccoli Content), you won’t think about risk in the same way again.

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