EDUCATIONAL GUIDE
Creating podcasts that address sexuality and intimacy

The podcast is often listened to on a daily basis in transport or in the kitchen, places of life and intimacy. To reach listeners in their daily lives, on topics of intimacy and sexuality, it is important to understand how a narrative podcast is built, how a story is written only in sound. How do you choose which of the dozens of podcast ideas will be the right story? The stories we tell shape and are inspired by our reality. Personal stories are powerful carriers of political messages. We’ve put together some podcast playlists to inspire you and tips for creating inclusive podcasts.

As a facilitator, you can then create your workshops using the examples of those we have conducted. To make it easier for you, we have created proposals to lead to the writing of scripts written collectively. The script is the skeleton of your podcast story, its storyline. Everything you hear will be transcribed into the script. It is with this tool that you will lead the group to shape its story and therefore its radio production.

HOW TO WRITE A PODCAST PITCH FROM AN EMOTION

This video aims to teach you how to write a podcast pitch based on an exploration of emotion. A pitch is a little text explaining in a few lines your radio project.

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HOW TO WRITE A GOOD STORY

If you’ve ever gotten bored listening to someone tell a story, it’s likely because they don’t understand the fundamentals of what makes a good story. In this video, we’ll explain what storytelling is today.

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HOW TO WRITE A COLLECTIVE SCRIPT

This video aims to teach you how to write a collective script from a theme. A script is the storyline for everything that will be heard in the podcast. We’ll show you how to facilitate discussion to write this script as a group.

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HOW TO DELIVER A SCRIPT

The first time you deliver a script into a microphone, it can be a little bit hard to feel confident.  But, with the three tips in this video, you’ll grow more confident and the result will be a much more compelling listen.

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THE MANUAL: Creating podcasts around intimacy and sexuality

We will offer you guidelines for creating a podcast, talking about issues of intimacy and sexuality, that said these methods are not set in stone, feed on as many podcasts as possible to assume your point of view and better transmit it from orally during the workshops. These activities have been written with as many points of view as possible in terms of gender, sexualities, origins and social class. These activities are available to everyone, no matter if you’ve never written a podcast or hosted groups. They are intended in particular for people who would like to animate groups with young adults to create podcasts around sexualities. To create a podcast on intimacy and gender, it is useful to know the stages of a story which are described in the different teaching sheets in this manual.