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“It would be journalism but it would be unashamedly out for fun.” First broadcast in 1995, This American Life has paved the way for many of the podcasts we hear today. Host Ira Glass reflects on the show’s humble beginnings… | BBC Radio 4

3.8K views · 98 reactions | Incoming truth bombs from Ira Glass on the 100th episode of Working It Out this Monday June 5. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mike-birbiglias-working-it-out/id1515419751 | Mike Birbiglia | Facebook

In 1995, Ira Glass co-founded the weekly public-radio show and podcast “This American Life.” The show has had the same essential format for 28 years and more than 800 episodes. “It was instrumental in creating a genre of audio journalism that has flourished in recent decades,” Sarah Larson writes. “This American Life” has trained a generation of talented people, and Glass’s three-act structures, chatty cadences, and mixture of analysis and whimsy are now so familiar as to seem unremarkable. “At

Our third annual Interviews Issue features wide-ranging conversations with people of note on politics, culture, and craft. Read the first two interviews, with Nicolas Cage and Ira Glass, and check back for new conversations each day this week: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tF26PY | The New Yorker