John Safran
speaker
891 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jun
John Safran’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All right.
OK.
No, no, no, thank you.
I guess I'm a storyteller and if that sounds a bit on the nose, it's only because at the moment I'm doing the reboot of Race Around the World and I'm the judge, the weekly judge, so I have to like watch these films and I'm trying to figure out how, you know, like that's got a lot of promise but if they're only da-da-da-da-da and you start thinking about your own work.
And yeah, I think I'm a sideways storyteller.
When the opportunity arises, I use the genre of the opportunity.
So for instance, before I was on Race Around the World, which is a
a documentary show where that was the first time I was on air, dear listener and viewer, where ABC was looking for eight young people who'd never been in the media before.
This was in like 1997.
And they wanted to send them around the world separately and they'd all on their own and they'd all have to film a little documentary
three-minute, four-minute documentary and send it back every 10 days and then judges back in the studio would give judging and stuff.
There was a bit of that reality show aspect.
But before that, I had never thought about...
doing documentary filmmaking, like to the extent of like, oh, I'm sure I'd seen documentaries, like I'm sure my parents had taken me and I'd seen a couple, a handful or whatever.
And then when I was dropped there, dropped down, I just come out in my head and I was going, okay, I'm going to tell these little stories and, yeah,
Here it is.
I'm using the medium of documentary.
And in that case, what I learned in Race Around the World, again, hitting the ground running, was I did this one story about week three or maybe even week four, and I was looking into – I was in the Ivory Coast in West Africa and looking at voodooism.
So I decided, like, to hang out with these different voodoo priests and see what they do in –
in the Ivory Coast.
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