A two-hour workshop for on-air announcers, reporters, producers, talk-show participants, interviewers and interviewees. We'll cover microphone skills, voice exercises, care and (non) feeding of the voice, coping with nerves, bringing out reluctant guests, working with speech difficulties (popping plosives and annoying fricatives), and-if there's time-some basic (or advanced, depending on the group) interviewing skills, too. That's all part of sounding good: working with your instrument-your voice, the tools of radio (mics) and being prepared.

Karen Michel is a long-time radio producer who got started in radio as a guest on "Kids Say the Darndest Things" when she was 5 years old. Since then (and a repeat on the tv version of "Kids Say") she's done sound art, investigative reportage, documentaries, features and all sorts of sonic things for radio in all its vagaries, most often on National Public Radio, where she's an occasional cultural correspondent for "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Karen's won the requisite awards and fellowships (NEA, Peabody, yadda-yadda), worked with "youth" and done lots of teaching. Radio is an addiction. Get used to it.