Joel Werner
Joel Werner (@joelwerner) is the Audio Lead for ABC Science, and host of the podcast Sum of All Parts. At the 2019 Third Coast Conference, Joel will be co-present a Breakout Session with Honor Eastly about turning her dark & funny life into a sound-rich, creative serialized story with feeling.
In 2011 Joel created the ABC’s nature documentary program, Off Track, which he hosted for two years before relocating to the United States. Living and working in NYC, Joel produced for shows including Radiolab, Freakonomics, On The Media, and 99% Invisible, with whom he won a Third Coast International Audio Festival Award. Throughout his career, Joel’s work has featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight, and podcasts including Science Vs, Undiscovered, and Twenty Thousand Hertz. More recently, Joel produced the ABC astronomy podcast Cosmic Vertigo, and was Executive Producer on Honor Eastly’s six part memoir about mental health and suicide, No Feeling Is Final.
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Irukandji; an invisible, thumbnail sized jellyfish whose sting causes unimaginable pain.
When it was built in 1977, the 59-story CitiCorp Center had a fatal flaw that could have caused the building to collapse, and take out the entire mid-town Manhattan skyline with it.
The 2015 Third Coast Festival Broadcast, featuring the winners of our annual competition.
This hour, the most famous chord in pop music, swimming pools, skateboarders and more!
This hour, journeys of discovery, from personal identity to mathematical infinity.
Usually when we talk about suicide we say those four magic words: "Just ask for help." But Honor Eastly knows it’s not that simple.
This hour, winners of our annual Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition.
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You know about reading between the lines, right? Well good sound design can make you dance between the lines. And when you’re talking about big, uncomfortable ideas — sound can be a super powerful tool to have on hand.
You can now hear sessions from the 2019 Third Coast Conference on the new season of the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast!