This American Life: Behind the Scenes with Ira Glass and Others
This American Life, a weekly hour-long radio program begun in 1995 and produced by Chicago Public Radio and hosted by Ira Glass, might be to radio what Baseball is to America. As of 2007 it is also found on television at Showtime, as seen in the trailer above.
On Sep 16 NY1’s Budd Mishkin and Ira Glass will show you a behind the scenes look to hear how the award winning public radio and TV show is put together. It’s a great chance to revisit episode 328: What I Learned from Television, when Ira discussed being referenced on a popular TV show at the time, The O.C. Summer, a character on The O.C. asked: “Is that that show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are?”