Siobhan McHugh is a leading podcast studies scholar and multi-award-winning narrative podcast producer. She is also a documentary-maker, oral historian, writer, journalism academic, podcast critic and podcasting consultant.

Her book, The Power of Podcasting – Telling Stories Through Sound (2022) is an insider’s guide to how narrative podcasts are made and a love letter to audio storytellers old and new.

Narrative podcasts Siobhan worked on include Phoebe’s Fall, Wrong Skin, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su and The Greatest Menace, all of which won Gold at New York Radio Festival, as well as other awards.

In 2013, McHugh founded the first journal of radio documentary and podcast studies, RadioDoc Review.

She was Associate Professor in Journalism at the University of Wollongong, south of Sydney, and Honorary Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, where in 2022 she launched the Hub for Innovation in Podcasting, a coalition of researchers, makers, fans and teachers of podcasting.

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Stories of Sound is an audio series that delves into sound arts and audio storytelling, offering listeners a window into the creative processes, challenges, and inspirations of artists, authors and theorists who tell stories through sound.

Audio documentaries, radio dramas, interviews, soundscapes, narration, auto-fiction, sound installations, archival material, sound design, radio, podcasting, and much more. 


Stories of Sound: Conversations on Sound, Art, and Audio Storytelling is curated by Riccardo Giacconi at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University.

Narration by Megan Hyde.

Additional editing by Marion Nicvert. 

This episode features excerpts from the following audio-documentaries: The Greatest Menace (2022), Heart of Artness (2018), The Last Voyage of the Pong Su (2019), Saigon Tapes (2020), Minefields and Miniskirts (1993).

Produced with support from the Faculty Research Awards Committee, School of Arts & Sciences at Tufts University.

https://botafuego.org/STORIES-OF-SOUND