Over the past six months, along with my amazing producer Sam Loy, I have been recording a podcast.
It tells, in truncated form, the story of the German resistance to Hitler, and calls on the research I have done for my book TREASON.
The process has been fascinating for someone like me, who did not know what was involved.
First, the scripts had to be written, edited, debated, settled.
Then, we recorded. We did this for a morning a week over about 3 months.
With the words recorded, Sam would work on the sound edit, which included writing music, sourcing sound effects and music, mixing – and a lot more that I don’t understand.
He would send a first draft, and I would provide feedback, and then a final draft would emerge.
I had to select a podcast platform, and after research I chose Buzzsprout. I’ve been very happy with their service. With their help, I am now on all the hosting platforms.
As well as sound, a podcast needs graphics, and I engaged my friend and design guru Mike Vernon – known for his MakeBooks Australia business – to produce artwork for the podcast. He has done a great job, producing generic artwork as well as artwork for each episode.
Selling a podcast is pretty hard. I had great help from my daughter Georgia, who researched an approach to this, and filmed and edited a number of film clips for promotion.
We released a trailer in late June, and then on 6 July dropped the first three episodes – 1, 2 and 3. The fourth went out on 13 July, and they’ll be once a week from now on.
The 80th anniversary of the July plot is upon us, and this seems a fitting tribute to mark the occasion.