This textbook offers a practical guide to creating narratives in audio media. It is one of the most beautiful and complex tasks in radio and podcasting: how do you tell a compelling story and keep your listeners tuned in? In Storytelling in Radio and Podcasts, Preger offers practical answers to crucial questions: What material is suitable for long stories? How can I bind listeners to a real story for 15, 30 or 60 minutes? Or even get them excited about a whole series? How do I maintain suspense from beginning to end? How do I find my narrative voice? And, how do I develop a sound design for complex narratives? Richly illustrated using practical examples, the book guides the reader through various stages of developing a non-fiction narrative and examines structure, character development, suspense, narration, sound-design and ethics.

Sven Preger is a multi-award-winning journalist, story consultant and systemic coach, specialising in telling complex stories. His latest works include the German serial The Hitchhiker, the podcast Deep Talk for national German radio and the narrative science podcast StoryQuarks, of which he is reporter-in-chief. He enables others to tell a better story and find their own voice.