Sound School Podcast
by Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org
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Estimated from 27 chart positions in 27 markets.
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- 🇦🇺AU · How To#49100K to 300K
- 🇧🇷BR · How To#5300K to 800K
- 🇰🇷KR · How To#5110K to 30K
- 🇲🇽MX · How To#6510K to 30K
- 🇫🇷FR · How To#6810K to 30K
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Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
267K to 784K🎙 ~2x weekly·380 episodes·Last published 1w ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
534K to 1.6M🇧🇷51%🇦🇺19%🇰🇪6%+24 more - Active Followers
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160K to 470K
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Coming Soon: Old School Sound School
Aug 25, 2026
Unknown duration
Revisiting: Remember to Breathe
Aug 11, 2026
Unknown duration
Sounds Cool!
Jul 28, 2026
Unknown duration
Elizabeth Arnold — Have Mic, Will Travel
Jul 14, 2026
21m 11s
Meditating with Platypuses, Penguins, and Wombats
Jun 30, 2026
20m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/25/26 |  Coming Soon: Old School Sound School | Rob has a small but mighty collection of old audio documentaries on CDs. And even more audio files crammed on his computer. "Bazillions," he says, "and it's time share the ear candy!" In September, Rob's launching a series called Old School Sound School featuring deep cuts and classic docs and sound works from 20+ years ago. Please listen. Your ears will thank you. | — | ||||||
| 8/11/26 | Revisiting: Remember to Breathe | A breath may seem like the most insignificant detail in an audio story. But, actually, the opposite is true. For proof, all you have to do is listen to stories where the breaths are cut out. On this episode of Sound School, a primer on editing breaths. Perfect for people teaching audio storytelling. | — | ||||||
| 7/28/26 | Sounds Cool! | Sounds Cool! | — | ||||||
| 7/14/26 | journalismreporting+3 | Elizabeth Arnold | NPR | North Pole | Elizabeth ArnoldNPR+4 | — | 21m 11s | ||
| 6/30/26 | sciencenature+3 | — | AudiocraftNocturnal Worlds | — | meditationscience+3 | — | 20m 41s | ||
| 6/16/26 | audio essaysnarration techniques+3 | Cloe Axelson | WBUR | — | audio essaysnarration+4 | — | 17m 10s | ||
| 6/2/26 | audio storytellingdocumentary+3 | — | Sound School | — | audio storytellingdocumentary+3 | — | 27m 27s | ||
| 5/19/26 | audio storytellingreporting insights+4 | Jad AbumradFayFay Odudu | Fela Kuti: Fear No Man | — | audio storytellingFela Kuti+4 | Radio Workshop | 45m 52s | ||
| 5/5/26 | reportingjournalism+4 | Andrew Leland | RadiolabSound School | — | reportingnausea+5 | — | 20m 10s | ||
| 4/21/26 | podcastinginspiration+3 | — | Sound School | — | Salman KhanMore Muslim+3 | — | 18m 44s | ||
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| 4/7/26 | silence in storytellingaudio production+3 | Noam Hassenfeld | VoxSound School+1 | — | silencestorytelling+5 | — | 23m 13s | ||
| 3/24/26 | radio storytellingdocumentary+3 | Pejk Malinovsky | Sound School Podcast | — | radio storydocumentary+3 | — | 25m 16s | ||
| 3/10/26 | podcast productionpilot episodes+3 | Julie ShapiroJohn Delore | Audio Flux | — | Audio Fluxpodcast pilot+3 | — | 33m 00s | ||
| 2/24/26 | pitchingpublic nudity+3 | Will Coley | Short CutsWNYC+2 | — | pitchpublic nudity+3 | — | 13m 32s | ||
| 2/10/26 | storytellingwriting+3 | Noel King | Planet Money | — | storytellingwriting+3 | — | 12m 46s | ||
| 1/27/26 | emotionsyouth unemployment+3 | Kabir Jagram | — | South Africa | reportingemotions+4 | — | 18m 49s | ||
| 1/13/26 | storytellingearly-career producers+3 | Anna Van Dine | — | Vermont | storytellingpodcast+5 | — | 19m 25s | ||
| 1/6/26 | Transom Traveling Workshopaudio production+3 | — | Transom | Nashville | TransomNashville+4 | — | 25m 19s | ||
| 12/16/25 | audio storytellingworkshops+3 | — | Transom Traveling Workshop | — | audio storytellingTransom+3 | — | 15m 56s | ||
| 12/2/25 | Revisiting: We Need More Words to Describe Audio Stories | When you limit language, you limit thinking. When you limit thinking, you limit creativity. When you limit creativity, audio storytellers wind up making the same thing over and over and over again and that's not good. In this archive episode from 2022, producer Jazmine Green says we need new language to describe our work. And we can start by borrowing from art and architecture. | — | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | Seeking Small True Things | Audio reporter Samantha Broun says young people are "full of life, complicated, passionate, confused, and they want to talk and want to be heard." That's why Sam offers them her curiosity and her caring ear for her project "Small True Things." Rob spoke to Sam in October for Sound School on the mainstage at the annual Audio Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | Revisiting: Hang A Picture In Front of the Microphone | Susan Stamberg sang her own song at NPR. Her writing and her voice, you could always tell it was Susan behind the mic. She died at the age of 87 in October. In honor of Susan, we present this archive episode of Sound School where she lays out her best practices for reporting on the visual arts. | — | ||||||
| 10/21/25 | When Funny Points to Truth | Neena Pathak produced a very touching story about grieving the death of her father. She says the humor in the story wasn't uncouth. It was how she captured the truth. | — | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | Revisiting: Fill Your Notebook with Color Notes | In this archive episode from 2018, legendary NPR reporter and raconteur John Burnett answers a perplexing question "How to make an immigration story visual when no mics are allowed in the courtroom?" Answer: Fill your note book with color notes. | — | ||||||
| 9/23/25 | Host Sits Down With a Reporter | "Host sits down with a reporter." That's a good way to describe how Radiolab stories are produced. Same with "two-ways" on NPR. You can hear those approaches everywhere. But, how else can a "host sit down with a reporter?" The Ghost of a Chance podcast from the Minnesota Star Tribune offers a solid example. | — | ||||||
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Chart history for Sound School Podcast
Peaked at #5 in Brazil, top 10 in 1 of 27 tracked markets, currently #5 in Brazil.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| KE | — | #13 | #13 | — |
| PE | — | #15 | #15 | — |
| IS | — | #25 | #25 | — |
| HU | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| Australia | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| South Korea | — | #51 | #51 | — |
| AT | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| CO | — | #53 | #53 | — |
| AE | — | #64 | #64 | — |
| Mexico | — | #65 | #65 | — |
| France | — | #68 | #68 | — |
| PT | — | #77 | #77 | — |
| Denmark | — | #98 | #98 | — |
| Italy | — | #106 | #106 | — |
| CH | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| Norway | — | #116 | #116 | — |
| South Africa | — | #117 | #117 | — |
| PL | — | #148 | #148 | — |
| TW | — | #148 | #148 | — |
Chart Positions
27 placements across 27 markets.
Chart Positions
27 placements across 27 markets.