Ira Glass speaks about the two building blocks of telling a story to an audience. An anecdote, or telling a direct sequence of events can be used to bring in the audience’s attention. The anecdote builds suspense by presenting a question to the audience, and that goes into the second phase, which is to constantly present questions within the story and tell the audience the answer. Glass also talks about the kind of stories one would present, that as an amateur, making mistakes and bad takes are part of the learning experience. Much of good radio talking is luck, and that the more one attempts at it, the more chance ...
