This American Life
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Other names	Your Radio Playhouse
Genre	Radio short stories
Running time	ca. 60 min.
Country	United States
Language(s)	English
Home station	WBEZ
Host(s)	Ira Glass
Creator(s)	Ira Glass Torey Malatia
Writer(s)	Various
Producer(s)	Julie Snyder Jane Feltes Sarah Koenig Lisa Pollak Alissa Shipp Nancy Updike Alex Blumberg
Executive producer(s)	Ira Glass
Narrated by	Ira Glass
Recording studio	Chicago, Illinois
Air dates	17 November 1995 – present
Audio format	Stereophonic
Website	www.thisamericanlife.org
Podcast feed	TAL Podcast

This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. It is distributed by Public Radio International and is also available as a free weekly podcast. TAL, hosted by Ira Glass, is primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, although it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... WBEZ (91. ... Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Stereophonic means having two channels of audio. ... Image File history File links Feed-icon. ... Chicago Public Radio (CPR) is a noncommercial, public radio station broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois. ... PRI logo Public Radio International, or PRI, is a Minneapolis-based American public radio organization. ... A podcast is a digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. ... Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... Journalism is a discipline of gathering, writing and reporting news, and broadly it includes the process of editing and presenting the news articles. ... For the book by Chuck Palahniuk titled Non-fiction, see Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories. ... For other uses, see Essay (disambiguation). ... As a literary genre, a memoir (from the French: mémoire from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ...

A television program sharing the name and basic structure of the radio program airs on the Showtime cable network, and features Ira Glass as the host and executive producer. The first episode aired on March 22, 2007.^[1] This article is about the pay TV channel. ... is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

Format

Each week's show loosely centers on a particular theme. The theme of the show is explored in several "acts," usually two to five. On occasion, an entire program will consist of a single act. A notable exception was the show "20 Acts in 60 Minutes", which broke the normal convention by presenting twenty acts in one hour. Each act is produced using a combination of staff and freelance contributors.

Content varies widely by episode, and stories are often told as first-person narratives. The mood of the show ranges from gloomy to ironic, from thought-provoking to hilarious. The show often addresses current events, such as Hurricane Katrina in "After the Flood." Listeners are just as likely to be introduced to subjects and or issues completely new to them as the island nation of Nauru in the story, "The Middle of Nowhere". Often This American Life features stories which explore aspects of human nature, such as "Kid Logic", which presented pieces on the faulty reasoning of children. This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ...

The end credits of each show are read by Ira Glass, and include a quotation extracted from some portion of that show, which Glass attributes out of context to WBEZ general manager Torey Malatia. It is awesome.

History

Radio

Ira Glass, the creator of This American Life, has served as producer and host since its November 17, 1995 debut . The show's first year was produced on a budget that was tight even by U.S. public radio standards: US$243,000 outfitted a studio, covered marketing costs, purchased satellite time, and paid for four full-time staffers and various freelance writers and reporters.^[2] National syndication began in June 1996 when Public Radio International formed a distribution partnership with the program. It now airs on 509 public radio stations in the United States, reaching an estimated 1.7 million listeners each week.^[3] The show is also carried on XM Satellite Radio over the XM Public Radio channel. Ira Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life. ... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... PRI logo Public Radio International, or PRI, is a Minneapolis-based American public radio organization. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... “XM” redirects here. ... XM Public Radio (abbreviated XMPR) is XM Satellite Radios 24/7 satellite radio channel dedicated to public radio programming. ...

Originally titled Your Radio Playhouse, the show's name was changed beginning with the March 21, 1996 episode. The reference to each segment of the show as an "act" is a holdover from its original "playhouse theme." TAL helped launch the literary careers of many including contributing editor Sarah Vowell and essayists Augusten Burroughs and David Sedaris.^[3] is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. ... Augusten Xon Burroughs (born Christopher Robison on October 23, 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer noted for his New York Times best-selling memoir Running with Scissors (2002), which spawned a feature film of the same name written and directed by Ryan Murphy and starring Joseph Cross as... Sedaris in 2005. ...

Television

Discussions of a television adaptation of TAL date back to at least 1999.^[2] In January 2006, Showtime announced it had greenlighted six episodes of a new series based on TAL.^[4] The announcement noted that each half-hour episode "will be hosted by Ira Glass and will explore a single theme or topic through the unique juxtaposition of first-person storytelling and whimsical narrative."^[4] This article is about the year. ... This article is about the pay TV channel. ... To greenlight a project, in the context of the movie business, is to formally approve production finance, thereby allowing the project to move forward from the development phase to pre-production and, barring disasters, principal photography. ...

For budgetary reasons, Ira Glass and four of the radio show's producers left Chicago for New York, where Showtime is headquartered.^[3] In January 2007, it was announced that Glass had completed production on the show's first season, with the first episode set to premiere on March 22. TAL has a contract for a total of 30 shows over the next four years.^[5]

Film

Stories from TAL have been used as the basis of movie scripts. In 2002 the show signed a six-figure deal with Warner Bros. giving the studio two years of "first-look" rights to its hundreds of past and future stories.^[6] One film to have apparently emerged from the deal is Unaccompanied Minors, a 2006 film directed by Paul Feig and reportedly based on "In The Event of An Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position" from "Babysitting."^[7] Also see: 2002 (number). ... “WB” redirects here. ... Unaccompanied Minors (also called: Grounded: Unaccompanied Minors) is a 2006 film directed by Paul Feig and starring Lewis Black, Wilmer Valderrama, Tyler James Williams, Dyllan Christopher, Brett Kelly, Gina Mantegna, and Quinn Shephard. ... // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing... Paul S. Feig is an American director and author. ...

Potential Warner Bros films:^[8]

• "Niagara," which explored the town of Niagara Falls, New York, after those who sought to exploit the tourism and hydroelectrical opportunities of the area left;
• Wonder Woman, from "Superpowers," the story of an adolescent who took steps to become the superhero she dreamed of being, well into adulthood;
• "Act V," about the last act of Hamlet as staged by inmates from a maximum security prison as part of Prison Performing Arts Adult Theatre Projects.

Paramount Pictures and Broadway Video are in production on Curly Oxide and Vic Thrill, a film based on the TAL story in the episode "My Experimental Phase."^[9] This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the state. ... Tourist redirects here. ... Hydroelectricity is electricity produced by hydropower. ... For other uses, see Superhero (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Hamlet (disambiguation). ... Supermax is the name used to describe control-unit prisons or units within prisons, representing the most secure and austere levels of custody in the prison systems of the United States and other countries. ... Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Broadway Video is an American independent entertainment company started by Lorne Michaels. ...

Live tours

This American Life has taken the radio show on the road three times since 2000; material recorded on each of the three tours has been edited into an episode which aired on the radio shortly after the tour.

• "Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones," recorded in December 2000 in Boston (Berklee Performance Center), New York, Chicago (Merle Reskin Theatre), and Los Angeles. Performers included Sarah Vowell, Russell Banks, David Rakoff, Ian Brown, and OK Go.
• "Lost in America," recorded in May 2003 in Boston, Washington, D.C., Portland, Denver, and Chicago. Performers included Sarah Vowell, Davy Rothbart, and Jonathan Goldstein. Jon Langford of the Mekons led the "Lost in America House Band" during the show.
• "What I Learned from Television," recorded in February and March, 2007 in New York City (February 26 at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center); Boston (February 27 at the Boston Opera House); Minneapolis (February 28 at the Orpheum Theatre); Chicago (March 1 at the Chicago Theatre); Seattle (March 7 at the Paramount Theatre); and Los Angeles (March 12 at Royce Hall, UCLA). Performers on this tour included David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Dan Savage, Jonathan Goldstein, and Chris Wilcha. In New York, Boston, Seattle, Chicago, and Minneapolis, Mates of State were the house band, while in Los Angeles, OK Go performed between acts.

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Awards

WBEZ-FM received a Peabody Award in 1996 and again in 2006 for TAL, for a show which "captures contemporary culture in fresh and inventive ways that mirror the diversity and eccentricities of its subjects" and "weav[es] original monologues, mini-dramas, original fiction, traditional radio documentaries and original radio dramas into an instructional and entertaining tapestry."^[10] WBEZ (91. ... The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ...

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• 2006 WBEZ-FM Chicago
• 1996 Ira Glass, Peter Clowney, Alix Spiegel, Nancy Updike, and Dolores Wilber, WBEZ-FM Chicago, for This American Life.

Third Coast International Audio Festival Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions. ... Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions. ... The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is a celebration of the best feature and documentary audio work heard worldwide on the radio and the Internet. ...

• 2001 Susan Burton Best New Artist award for act 1, Tornado Prom from episode 186, "Prom."
• 2002 Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass: Best Documentary Gold Award for act 3, Yes, There is a Baby from episode 175, "Babysitting."
• 2003, Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar, Best Documentary Silver Award for episode 230, "Come Back to Afghanistan."

Livingston Award The Livingston Awards are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. ...

• 2002 Alix Spiegel: National Reporting for episode 204, "81 Words."

Scripps Howard Foundation The Scripps Howard Foundation is the corporate foundation of the E.W. Scripps Company, an American media conglomerate which owns newspapers, television stations and other media outlets. ...

• 2004 Nancy Updike: Jack R. Howard Award for episode 266, "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help."

Edward R. Murrow Award The Edward R. Murrow awards are presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association in recognition of what the Association terms outstanding achievements in electronic journalism. ...

• 2005 Nancy Updike: for News Documentary for episode 266, "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help."

Music

Episodes of TAL are accompanied by music, in the form of interludes between acts (credited in the episode guide for each show), and incidental background music during acts. Background music is typically not credited, but provides important thematic emphasis.

Some songs and artists that have played a role in TAL background music include the following.

Key Themes

• "The Rules of Personal Space", "Many Different Hats", "The Beautiful People", "Lullaby Lost" from the album Extra: in the Background of a Dream by Bobby Johnston
• "Catalog and Classify" from the album Tiger Banana by Mark Robinson
• "Talisman" from the album Moon Safari by Air
• "Highschool Lover", "Dirty Trip" and "Ghost Song" from the album Virgin Suicides: Original Soundtrack by Air
• "kt" from the album Haralambos by Bexar Bexar
• "Whipping the Horse's Eyes" from the album Feast of Wire by Calexico
• "So What" from the album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
• "Carpathian Ridge" and "Did You Know Him" from the album Donnie Darko: Original Soundtrack by Michael Andrews
• "Midnight in a Perfect World" and "Stem/Long Stem" from the album Endtroducing by DJ Shadow
• "Paul's Dance" from the album Penguin Cafe Orchestra by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• "Sketch" and "Perpetuum Mobile" from the album Signs of Life by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• "Kyoko's House: Stage Blood is not Enough" from the Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters soundtrack by Philip Glass
• "Metamorphosis I" and "Japura River" performed by Uakti on the Philip Glass album Aguas Da Amazonia
• "Still Dre" from the album 2001 Instrumental by Dr. Dre
• "Namaste" and "Groove Holmes" from the album Check Your Head by The Beastie Boys
• "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" from the album Flight of the Cosmic Hippo by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
• "Viva Tirado, Pt. 1" from the album "Viva El Chicano!" by El Chicano
• "Big Calm" from the album "Big Calm" by Morcheeba

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Recurring Themes

• "Bathing Blossom" from the album Secretary: Original Soundtrack by Angelo Badalamenti
• "Untitled III (Remix)" from the album Even My Sure Things Fall Through by Calexico
• "Strange Bath", "Cubes" and "Coincidences" from the album I ♥ Huckabees: Original Soundtrack by Jon Brion
• "Theme" and "Phone Call" from the album Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Original Soundtrack by Jon Brion
• "The Beast" from the album Mulholland Drive: Original Soundtrack by Milt Buckner
• "Dreams" and "Lux Aeterna" from the album Requiem For a Dream: Original Soundtrack by Clint Mansell, as performed by Kronos Quartet
• "All that you give" from the album Every Day by Cinematic Orchestra
• "Drunken Tune" from the album Man With The Movie Camera by Cinematic Orchestra
• "Diabolus" from the album Motion by Cinematic Orchestra.
• "Numbers 1-4" and "Telephone and Rubber Band" from the album Penguin Cafe Orchestra by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• "Penguin Cafe Single" from the album Music From The Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• "Music For A Found Harmonium" from the album Broadcasting From Home by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
• "A Grand Love Theme", "The Bootleggers" and "Alone Again So" from the album A Grand Love Story by Kid Loco
• "Buried at Sea" from the album One Step Ahead of the Spider by MC 900 Ft. Jesus
• "Scrapping and Yelling" by Mark Mothersbaugh from the album Royal Tenenbaums: Original Soundtrack
• "Turquoise Hexagon Sun" from the album Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
• "Laura's Theme" from the album Brick Soundtrack (Original Motion Picture) by Nathan Johnson
• "Sleepless" from the album Distance by Marconi Union
• "Green Arrow" from the album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo

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Other Artists

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Other media

Some of the show's episodes are accompanied by multimedia downloads available on This American Life's website. One notable mention is a remake of the Elton John song "Rocket Man" that was produced for episode 223, "Classifieds," and released as an MP3. The song was performed by a "one day band" composed of musicians looking for work in the classifieds. The band, consisting of various performers (one played a Theremin), met and practiced for only one day before recording the song. Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Rocket Man (I Think Its Going To Be A Long, Long Time) is a song composed by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and popularized by John. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... ‹ The template below is being considered for deletion. ...

Three 2-disc CD sets collecting some of the producers' favorite acts have been released: Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes was released on May 4, 1999, Crimebusters & Crossed Wires was released on November 11, 2003, and Stories of Hope and Fear was released on November 7, 2006. CD redirects here. ... is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

A 32-page comic book, Radio: an Illustrated Guide (ISBN 0-9679671-0-4), documents how an episode of TAL is put together. It was drawn by cartoonist Jessica Abel, written by Abel and Glass, and first published in 1999. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work. ... Jessica Abel (b. ...

Staff

Current production staff

Former production staff members

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Other contributors

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In popular culture

This American Life was referenced in the television series The O.C., prompting the character Summer to respond, "Is that that show by those hipster know-it-alls who talk about how fascinating ordinary people are?" and, with a dismissive snort, "Gawd!" This reference was itself repeated in a segment of the 2007 Live Tour episode, when Glass, a self-confessed shameless fan of the teen soap opera, described his experience responding to the aforementioned line. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ...

The Onion, a parody newspaper, published a satirical story on April 20, 2007, entitled "This American Life Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence".^[11] The Onion is a United States-based parody newspaper published weekly in print and daily online. ...

See also

• List of This American Life episodes

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References

• Abel, Jessica; Glass, Ira (1999). Radio: An Illustrated Guide. WBEZ Alliance Inc. ISBN 0-9679671-0-4. 

• WBEZ Chicago Public Radio (2 Jan 2006). This American Life Radio Program to air Television Series on SHOWTIME. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.

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External links

• This American Life Official website
• This American Life podcasts
• Ira Glass at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival
• Chicago Public Radio Official website
• National Public Radio Official website
• Public Radio International Official website
• This American Life Showtime Official website
• Ira Glass talks about This American Life on Charlie Rose April 4, 2007
• Ira Glass Goes Electric Chicago Life's April 2007 article on the TV version of "This Americal Life"
• PopGurls Interview: Chris Wilcha Director Chris Wilcha talks about developing the TV version of "This American Life"