Please help us to continue. You have two new shows a month, and you can't miss your deadline, or you lose your slot. Oh, and don't forget to buy lots of blank Hi8 tape for shooting footage, because you need to shot a lot more footage than what you actually use in the final edit. Be sure to reserve time at the editing suite, and pay up your annual fee to use the Chicago Access Corp. editing facilities. How to Produce a Radio Series Labor Express starts with the decision to develop issues or events to cover.
Time is spent lining up interviews either for the phone or in person.
News items or calls from friends usually can give some direction. Interviews are done sometimes quickly after initial contact, sometimes after weeks of phone tag. Ten to fifteen minutes preparatory discussion is often useful for a twenty to twenty-five minute discussion. A day or two before editing labor news is taken from the Internet sources available. This is used in the Labor News from Around the World segment at the beginning of each show.