Article

One story, told week by week: episodic podcast storytelling and The Habitat

Author: Charlotte De Beauvoir (Los Andes University, Bogotá)

Abstract

The rise and success of podcasting introduced episodic storytelling in the world of non-fiction sound narrative. Delivering a story in different entries is very different from producing a one-off piece. What concrete implications does this have for the narrative? And what keeps an audience listening to a podcast, episode through episode? This article offers some answers to these questions via a case study of The Habitat, a 2018 podcast by the American network Gimlet.

Keywords: episodic storytelling, podcasting, audio storytelling, Mars

How to Cite: De Beauvoir, C. (2019) “One story, told week by week: episodic podcast storytelling and The Habitat”, RadioDoc Review. 5(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.14453/rdr.66