S-Town
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.
Directors' Choice2017 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition2017 / Brian Reed / Julie Snyder / S-Town, USA
S-Town is hard to describe. It’s a podcast that starts as a traditional investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in rural Alabama.
Over the course of its seven chapters it becomes something much newer and stranger: a literary profile of one man’s life. We're featuring an excerpt from Chapter 1.
S-Town was produced by Brian Reed and Julie Snyder with editorial advisors Ira Glass, Sarah Koenig and Neil Drumming.
S-Town artwork by Valero Doval.
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Brian Reed is the host and co-creator of S-Town , as well as the senior producer of This American Life .
Julie Snyder is the co-creator of S-Town and Serial.
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