The Backstory to Great Audio Storytelling, hosted by Rob Rosenthal, for Transom and PRX.
https://transom.org/topics/sound-school/
Tips For Interviewing Shy People (Especially Nuns)
Some interviewees are shy. Others guarded. Yet, you need to talk to them for a story. How do you help them open up? Erika Lantz and Elin Lantz Lesser have a lot of ideas. They spent the better part of a year interviewing former nuns in Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, for The Turning: The Sisters Who Left. Their approach offers valuable lessons for any interviewer.