Recommended Order for Episodes 1. Intro Music • There are many websites with royalty-free music that you can use to create your podcast introduction, such as bensound.com. 2. Welcome Greeting • Write a short greeting to welcome listeners to your podcast. Introduce the podcast’s name, introduce the class and purpose of the podcast, and mention what themes the podcast will explore. This should be summed up into a statement of intent, which will be repeated at the beginning of each episode, and which will form the guiding objective of each episode. • Record the greeting yourself or select a student from the class to be the host of the podcast. This greeting should be used across all episodes. 3. Interview Introduction • Students will be responsible for writing and recording their own interview introductions. They will introduce their speaker, a bit about their background, and the conflicts they have served in. 4. Interview and Context • Students will be responsible for choosing excerpts from the interview to include in their episode and add commentary where more context is required. 5. Episode Closing • Students will close the episode by reflecting on the overall themes discussed and provide their final thoughts and takeaways. 6. Call to Action (“Thank you for listening. Next time on [podcast name], [speaker name] sits down with [interviewer name] to discuss [theme]…”) • The person who did the welcome greeting (the host) should also record the call to action. • The host should record separate calls to action for all episodes, so they can let the listeners know who conducts the next episode, who will be featured in it, and what they will be speaking about. 7. Outro Music • This can be the same as the intro music, a different section of the intro music, or a royalty-free song that is relevant to the episode. We recommend transcribing all podcast episodes for accessibility. If you choose to transcribe your podcast, be sure to transcribe the Welcome Greeting and Call to Action so students are only responsible for transcribing and arranging their interview contribution to the episode template. Arrange the interviews for your students in advance. Request speakers through the Memory Project website: thememoryproject.com/book-a-speaker. How to Make an Oral History Podcast A Memory Project Resource Kit 5. 5
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