Life Stories Reports as a Starting Point for Dramatized Radio and Non-Fiction 'Podcast' in Digital Ecosystem. Case Study: ‘Sin mi Identidad’ (Cadena Cope), ‘Lo Conocí en un Corpus’ (Podium Podcast) and ‘Las Tres Muertes de mi Padre’ (Cuonda)

Abstract

In current digital ecosystem, sound is gaining prominence through new formats such as podcasting, born in the era of mobility. Formats that can share elements, characteristics, dynamics of work and consumption with other traditional radio formats, such as reports, docudramas or the radio soap opera. This article aims to analyze whether the strength of human reach storytelling is a common starting point in analogic reports and in fictional and non-fiction podcasts, both on audio platforms and on conventional radio. For this, three podcast are proposed as case study: ‘Sin mi identidad’ (2018, COPE network), ‘Lo conocí en un Corpus’ (2017, Podium Podcast) and ‘Las tres muertes de mi padre’ (2017, Cuonda). The methodology is classified as descriptive and qualitative and includes semi-structured interviews with key subjects in the process of the three spaces considered as objects of study. In the analyzed cases it can be stated that, although reports and fiction and nonfiction podcasts are different products, they share similarities of production, documentation and recording. Also, all have as starting point a real story, even when podcasts are fiction.