Interview a grandparent

Use with: podcast-episode. Resume line when done: Produced an oral-history interview episode — recorded, edited, published at {url}

Brief

One recorded conversation with a grandparent about their life, edited into an episode someone outside the family could listen to. You write the questions, run the recording, and make the cuts. The agent can workshop your question list and plan the edit with you, but the voice asking on tape is yours. They hear the finished episode before anyone else does.

Personalize

• Which grandparent, which chapter. Pick one person and one slice of their life: the move, the first job, the wedding, the years they never talk about at dinner. A whole life in one sitting goes shallow.
• The questions only you can ask. Start from the stories they half-tell at family gatherings. You know which ones have never been finished.
• The language. Record in the language they tell stories in, even if you publish with a translated description.

Milestones

1. Question list drafted by you, workshopped, then trimmed to the ten you most want answered.
2. A five-minute test recording in the same room with the same setup, listened back for levels and background noise.
3. The conversation recorded, forty minutes or more of raw tape.
4. Rough cut: keeper moments marked, the episode's arc chosen.
5. Final edit with a short intro you wrote and recorded yourself.
6. Their listen-through and okay, then published at a public URL or podcast feed.

Done means

• The episode is live at a URL or feed anyone can play
• Your grandparent heard it first and agreed to publish it
• The intro and questions are words you wrote yourself
• Audio is listenable end to end: no clipping, no long dead air
• The episode notes say who is speaking and when it was recorded