Episode 12: Liza Yeager, Amelia Golcheski, and Jim McGrath on Podcasts

Public Work: a public humanities podcast

Welcome to the season finale of Public Work! This week's episode begins with a conversation between Amelia and Jim on the secret origins of Public Work, the ubiquity of podcasts, and what they've learned from working on this project. Then Jim talks to Liza Yeager, an audio producer and storyteller (and a Brown University alum!) who has worked on a range of podcasts, radio programs, and other projects. Liza talks about what led her to co-found Now Here This, a student-led audio storytelling project, at Brown, what she's learned about radio and podcasts from her work with NPR's Story Lab, Jacobin's The Dig podcast, and other projects, and what she cares about when telling and hearing audio-centric forms of storytelling. Public Work is produced and hosted by Amelia Golcheski and Jim McGrath This is the last episode of Public Work with this team, as Amelia has recently graduated. Congrats Amelia! Stay tuned to @PublicWorkPod and @publichumans on Twitter to learn what podcast projects are on the horizon at Brown's Center for Public Humanities! Questions? Comments? Email us: publicworkpodcast[at]gmail. The music at the beginning of this episode is excerpted from the song “New Day” by Lee Rosevere (licensed via Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). All other music is performed by No-No Boy.