sound portrait

I found this piece about Geneva Tinsdale very interesting. We know that somebody interviewed her, we know that the interview was then edited and small audio clips were then input into the final project, and we know that David Isay narrated the final project. What we don't actually know is if David Isay conducted the original interview. I personally don't believe he did because typically the individual reporting the news doesn't do the lay work. Also his narrating sounded very choppy, hurried, and placing emphasis on certain words or parts of the interview seemed be... wrong, almost as if he was reading from a script or, like newscasters today, a teleprompter. If this is true then there would be obvious challenges to overcome. The more people that handle a project the greater your chances are for errors and mistakes. Someone would have to interview Geneva, getting plenty of audio so whoever was editing and making the storyboard for the piece would have a lot to chose from. Then, you have to write a narrative that tells the story and leaves openings for audio inserts from the interview. This would require a lot of collaboration between the narrative and the audio interview, especially if the editing of each were being handled by two seperate people. Finally, it seems this was done on the radio, so if this was done live that creates another challenge, as the narrator would have to pause and either himself or some audio technician would have to play these audio snippets from the interview. Most likely these audio clips were set up on some type of script or queue to be in a pre-set order so all you have to do is click next.