Ira glas

He is the host and producer of the radio and television series This American Life and has participated in other NPR programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considere and Talk of the Nation. Ira Glass , Writer: This American Life. The show is heard each week by over 2. He’s also one of the editors of the podcasts Serial and S-Town.

Sometimes Ira goes by various nickname including Ira J Glass. When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list. State Theatre - Minneapolis. The stories were funny, poignant, sometimes sa but always thoroughly engaging.

He is best known as the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. He said on the podcast that he recently went camping in upstate New York with friends, and that he’d never gone camping before. It is his identity. He is seen here from the In “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host,” pieces. He is from the long-running radio show and podcast “This American Life.

Glass will present “Seven Things I’ve Learned” at p. Saturday, July 1 at the Schuster Center, W. UPDATE: Thanks for all your kind words guys! He is a second cousin of acclaimed composer Philip Glass. Evelyn From The Internets Recommended for you. His parents are Shirley and Barry Glass. He’s producer and the host of radio shows that are famous but remembered for tv series This American Life and its radio.

This week, stories where a longtime standoff keeps both sides coming back for more. Each week, This American Life is broadcast to more than 1. Glass , this is actually my first time interviewing another interviewer… (Laughs) Generally when I’m interviewing other reporters it’s somebody who’s appearing on This American Life and we’ve agreed that they’re going to come on and tell this story about this thing that happened — so actually it’s very straightforward. Jesse: Did being a reporter fit you naturally? Like was it an ambition for you? Just, just the opposite in fact.

I wasn’t very good on the air, and so when I started I was basically like a tape cutter. I was a production assistant and a tape cutter and a behind-the-scenes person and got better and better at that part. What Glass and his team did was to present first-rate journalism stylishly packaged as intelligent entertainment. The rest, as they say, is history.

The armchair experts travel to NYC to record in the esteemed This American Life studios. Thank you for telling beginners what nobody else does. Would I have stumbled upon that revelation on her page had I not been thirsting for information about female cartoonists?

His signature storytelling approach — candi narrative, sometimes. Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker. Copy quote I dont go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my hea no.

The New York Daily News reports that court documents filed Monday reveal that. But, you might not think of the well-known radio host and producer as a movie producer.