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  1. Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) American television and radio personality who was the popular host of a radio program (begun 1995 and later adapted for television) called This American Life. In 1978 Glass talked his way into an internship at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C.

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  2. Jun 25, 2007 · Today, Glass, 46, is still busy and full of startlingly fresh ideas, like making a new Showtime television series based on This American Life. He is still boyishly thin and still wearing black ...

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  4. Mar 15, 2022 · Glass, who has the nasal voice and nerdily handsome looks of an attractive suburban maths teacher, is the founder and host of the long-running radio show and podcast This American Life.He started ...

  5. Mini warfare … Ira Glass, at back, filming a TV version of This American Life in 2007. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy “I would try to tell a story live on the air,” he says, “and ...

  6. Apr 22, 2020 · Apr 22, 2020. 5. Share. Ira Glass began his career in public radio as a 19-year-old intern at NPR in 1978. There, he held nearly every possible job — tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. Seventeen years after joining NPR, he pitched an idea for a show that would become This American ...

  7. Sep 29, 2018 · September 29, 2018. Michal Story. Joe Frank working in the studio at KCRW, Santa Monica, 2012. Through his broadcasts over the course of forty years, Joe Frank, who died at seventy-nine this past January, brought the notion of the auteur to postwar American radio.

  8. Ira Glass is the host and creator of “This American Life,” the public radio program heard each week by over five million listeners. The show has won the highest honors for broadcasting and ...

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