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Radiotopia Presents: Bot Love
What really happens when stories about people’s lives are collected, edited, and consumed? Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking,Transformative is a four-part non-fiction series created by Jess Shane, about the nuts and bolts of documentary storytelling, the power dynamics between makers and subjects, and rewriting unwritten rules of the documentary and non-fiction content industry.Radiotopia Presents: Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is written, hosted and produced by Jess Shane. Sara Nics is the story editor. Sound design, mix/mastering by...
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4.3 stars from 1,181 ratings
Producer tells subjects she’ll make series about them, uses their stories to make it about herself
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“In episode 4, Jess tells her three sources that episodes 2 and 3 are about them. This is not, in fact, true. None of this series is about them. Their stories are simply fodder to tell Jess’s own story. The fact that she isn’t transparent about this with the three of them or even with herself...”Read full review »
Dioecious05 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/29/24
“This season was a masterpiece. I can’t even begin to imagine the time and struggle that went into concocting all the arcs in these episodes. I almost missed it because I didn’t want to listen to a meta series. I worried it would be too navel-gazey and boring. But it was so the opposite of that....”Read full review »
dswdrff via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
03/26/24
Def not shocking or transformative
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“I listened bc I wanted to like it but the more I listened, the more I became annoyed with the narration and banal insights. The stories shared were not very interesting and neither were the insights shared.”
Blackberries12 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/25/24
Recent Episodes
Back in 2017, Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative host/producer Jess Shane made “Perfect Woman”, an episode of Love Me, the CBC podcast. In 2018, Nick van der Kolk made “Points of Egress” for his show, Love + Radio, inspired by “Perfect Woman”. Today, we come full circle to share “Points of...
Published 03/19/24
Published 03/19/24
After Jess receives feedback that throws a major wrench into her production schedule, she has to make some tough decisions.
Shocking, Heartbreaking, Transformative is written, hosted and produced by Jess Shane. Sara Nics is the story editor. Sound design, mix/mastering by Michelle Macklem....
Published 02/13/24
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