INTERVIEWS
Get ready to groove with the amazing interviews featuring passionate audio enthusiasts.
Check out our Spotify channel ‘Quotecast about Radio‘ as we explore the magic of storytelling in our lives.
Discover the secrets to crafting your feature and the rules of documentary production.
It’s everything you’ve ever wanted to know about feature making, served with a side of sunshine and smiles.
INTERVIEW with Torben Brandt
Torben Brandt ( * 1953, Denmark ) is a Danish radio legend and belongs to the “Golden age of the Danish radio documentary generation.” He has been producing and engineering documentaries, reportage, drama, sound art, culture news programs. He is the inventor of the well known interviewing style “The Moment Interview.”
| Torben Brandt speaks about closeness, intimacy and imagination on the radio. There are lots of things hidden in the language but a good story is always a good story, no matter what language. Interview recorded in Stockholm in 2017. Torben Brandt – interview from 10. 5. 2017 [21:25] |
INTERVIEWS with Peter Leonhard Braun
Peter Leonhard Braun (*1929, Germany) is a well-known producer and dramaturge of radio documentaries and features, a pioneer of stereophony, the founder of the International Feature Conference.
| Peter Leonhard Braun speaks about the history of the radio feature and the IFC. Then he describes his experience with a work for TV, but mainly his radio work – pieces that changed the world of the feature forever. Hyenas, Chickens and Bells in Europe. And much more. Part 1. [2:19:01] Peter Leonhard Braun – interview from 11. 4. 2017 | |
| Peter Leonhard Braun tells his definition of a feature and goes through some old photos from the IFC. Interview recorded for the book “European Radio Documentary” in Berlin in 2017. Part 2. [25:14] Peter Leonhard Braun – interview from 12. 4. 2017 |
INTERVIEWS with Edwin Brys
Edwin Brys (*1945, Belgium) is a Belgian radio creator. For many years, he was the Head of the Radio Documentary Department at the VRT (Vlaamse Radio – en Televisieomroep), the member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) Radio Documentary Project Group.
| Edwin Brys explains the essence of a good feature, he talks about ways to find a topic and about the difference between radio and television. And much more. Interview recorded at the house of Edwin Brys in Brussel 2017. Part 1 – [1:30:57] | |
| Edwin Brys talks about music in features and the importance of scenes. You will find out how to build a good story, and also something about the history of the IFC. And much more. Interview recorded at the house of Edwin Brys in Brussel 2017. Part 2 – [1:43:21] | |
| Edwin Brys talks about the compilation of the recordings created for the 30 years of the IFC. Interview recorded at the house of Edwin Brys in Brussel 2017. Part 3 – [17:00] |
INTERVIEW with Willem Davids
Willem Davids (*1952, the Netherlands) is a radio and television creator, documentary maker, sound artist, podcast analyst and also a webmaster of the IFC website.
| Willem Davids speaks about the conference of shoe makers – the term he uses for the IFC. He also deals with the future of this event and describes how much the world changed for him after he met the international community. And much more. Interview recorded in Stockholm in 2017. Willem Davids – interview from 8. 5. 2017 [11:40] |
INTERVIEW with Simon Elmes
Simon Elmes is a British documentary maker and theoretician, Creative Director at BBC.
| Simon Elmes talks about the structure of a radio feature and about significant stories which stuck in his head after many years of working for the BBC. He also goes back to the invention of the internet and explains why people are the backbone of every good radio feature. And much more. Interview recorded in Prague in 2017. Interview from 16. 2. 2017 [1:12:05] |
INTERVIEW with Laurence Grissell
Laurence Grissell is a British documentary maker who played a significant part in the development of the documentary production at the BBC Radio 4. He has received many international awards. Since 2022, he has worked for the newly emerged platform Blanchard House.
| Laurence Grissell talks about Prix Europa and compares it to the IFC. He also describes changes that happened at the Prix Europa in 2019. And much more. Interview recorded in Potsdam in 2019, 8. 10. 2019, Prix Europa. [21:36] |
INTERVIEW with Gabriela Hermer
Gabriela Hermer works as the producer-in-chief at the Berlin branch of the RBB radio station. Before working at the RBB, she worked as an independent film documentary maker and a radio feature creator.
| Gabriela Hermer speaks about the ‘The Åke Blomström Award‘ for young documentary makers, about the history of the competition and also about the special meaning of the IFC conference. And much more. Interview recorded in Stockholm in 2017. Interview from 10. 5. 2017 [10:27] |
INTERVIEW with Jens Jarisch
Jens Jarisch (*1969, Germany) is an independent radio maker, producer, coach, and tutor.
| Jens Jarisch speaks about the differences between IFC, Prix Europa and Prix Italia. He compares these three events and shares his experience with being the part of a PI jury. And much more. Interview recorded in Capri in autumn 2018, Prix Italia. [16:50] |
INTERVIEW with Ingo Kottkamp
Ingo Kottkamp (*1972, Germany) studied literature, but has worked for radio for many years.
He creates his own programmes and works as a director at the station Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Since 2007 he has worked as an editor for the section Hörspiel und Feature (Radio Drama and Feature).
| Ingo Kottkamp speaks about the importance of feature making in his life. He also describes the characteristics of the International Feature Conference, and why we would miss it if it didn’t exist. And much more. Interview recorded in Stockholm,, from 9. 5. 2017 Part 1 [6:48] | |
| Ingo Kottkamp speaks about the history of feature making in Germany. He describes various “schools of feature”. And much more. Interview recorded in Berlin, from 9. 10. 2019 – Prix Europa. Part 2 [22:38] |
INTERVIEW with Vladimir Kryuchev
Vladimir Kryuchev is a Russian journalist devoted to field recording who actively participates in various gatherings of radio enthusiasts and creators.
| Vladimir Kryuchev talks about documentary making tradition in Russia and about his addiction to audio festivals. And much more. Interview recorded in Potsdam, 9. 10. 2019, Prix Europa [21:33] |
INTERVIEW with Silvia Lahner
Silvia Lahner (*1959, Austria) is a radio maker, the chair of the EBU’s Radio Features Group and a head of the cultural department of the Austrian public radio station Ö1. Lahner deals with the radio documentary as well as literary adaptations, radio dramas and other cultural programmes.
| Silvia Lahner speaks about the changes in the structure of the IFC 2018, the basic idea of the conference and the importance of good storytelling. And much more. Silvia Lahner – interview from 24. 5. 2018 [16:46] |
INTERVIEW with Diarmuid McIntyre
Diarmuid McIntyre (*1972, Ireland) is a radio and television documentary maker and the founder of the production company Grey Heron Media as well as the HearSay Audio Arts Festival. For his work, McIntyre has received several awards, among others the main prize at the New York Radio Festival, PPI Gold Radio Award or an award given by the Association for International Broadcasting.
| Diarmuid McIntyre speaks about the HearSay Audio Arts Festival and compares it to the IFC. He describes the basics of the HearSay festival – in his words the largest and most unique celebration of creative audio in the world. And much more. Interview recorded in Kilfinane, Ireland, April 2019. Part 1 [1:04:21] | |
| Diarmuid McIntyre explores some ideas about audio making while he drives in beautiful scenery deep in rural Ireland. He speaks about the Irish tradition of feature making and also about the reasons why he personally dedicated his life to documentary making. And much more. Interview in Ireland, May 2019. Part 2 [28:19] |
INTERVIEW with Neil Sandell
Neil Sandell is a Canadian journalist and a radio documentary maker living in France. He used to work for the Canadian station CBC and has received many awards (Prix Italia, Premios Ondas, the New York Festivals, the Third Coast International Audio Festival and more).
| Neil Sandell speaks about the differences between IFC, the Third Coast International Audio Festival, Prix Europa, Prix Marulic and Prix Italia. And much more. [30:43] |
INTERVIEW with Jonathan Zenti
Jonathan Zenti is an independent Italian producer and creator of podcasts. His programmes were nominated for the Prix Europa Award, he also won the Skylarking Awardat the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the GanBéarla Award at the Hearsay Audio Festival.
Zenti is one of the co-founders of the MIRP conference – Meeting of Independent Radio Producers.
| Jonathan Zenti speaks about his experience with the Third Coast International Audio Festival and how he sees the US podcast world. He also explains some crucial differences between the public radio and independent podcast makers. And much more. Interview recorded in Chicago in 2018, autumn 2018, Third Coast. [29:26] |
INTERVIEW with Johanna Zorn
Johanna Zorn is an executive director and co-founder of the Third Coast festival.
Previously she spent 30 years at WBEZ, Chicago, producing and directing a wide variety of programmes.
She was an executive producer of the award-winning public affairs series Chicago Matters.
| Johanna Zorn speaks about the Third Coast International Audio Festival and the differences between that event and the IFC. She also describes the American way of documentary making and shares her experiences. And much more. Interview recorded for the book “European Radio Documentary” in Chicago, autumn 2018, Third Coast. [21:04] |
IFC AudioDocs (50 years archive) 