Welcome, Dartmouth English Department



Thank you for your consideration. What follows is an explanation of my work and how to engage with it.

I write, I produce, and I edit audio documentaries. 

Sometimes my work is investigative. Sometimes it’s historical. Sometimes it’s personal. Always it features the core elements of creative nonfiction — structure, pacing, tone and texture — in stories primarily meant to be heard, not read. 

You can engage with my work in a few different ways: 

1. Selected works: To the right of your screen is a curated selection of my work (or find it by clicking here and scrolling down, if you’re on a phone). These stories aren’t in a particular order, so feel free to click around to what interests you most. Note: some of these are taken out of order from a larger series, so keep that in mind while listening.

2. An alternative route: You may prefer to listen to all the episodes of one show from start to finish. (In the audio world that might be most like a book, since it’s written over a period of years.) If you want to do that, I’d suggest “The Last Archive”, a show I created with historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. Here’s a landing page for that, with links to listen and a description of how this award-winning podcast found and used sound. 

Thank you, and enjoy.

- Sophie Crane    

Sophie Crane | Selected Works



THE LAST ARCHIVE
creator, showrunner, senior editor

  1. Unheard
  2. Cell Strain
  3. For The Birds
  4. It Came From Outer Space
  5. Hush Rush
  6. Information, Please!
  7. The Farming Game
  8. Acting Out
  9. Player Piano


FRONTLINE PBS
series producer  

  1. Living With Murder Pt. 1
  2. Living With Murder Pt. 2
  3. Child Marriage in America
  4. I Don’t Want To Shoot You, Brother
  5. The Weight of Dust
  6. Muzamil’s Day 


McCartney, A Life in Lyrics
senior editor

  1. Penny Lane
  2. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
  3. Let It Be


Death of an artist
senior editor

  1. Crash
  2. Inner Rhythm 


THE LOUDEST GIRL IN THE WORLD  
showrunner, senior editor

  1. Talking, A Love Story
  2. Goodbye Routine, Hello Meltdown
  3. Lauren Comes Out To Family