Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Ira Glass on Working in Television, Public Radio's Struggle For Innovation, and Hanging Up On People

Ira Glass is the host and creator of "This American Life," a weekly public radio show produced by WBEZ-Chicago and distributed by Public Radio International that draws 1.7 million listeners per week. David Mamet wrote in Time magazine that Glass "seems to have reinvented radio," and the show helped launch the careers of writers David Sedaris, David Rakoff and Sarah Vowell. Glass just finished putting together a "pilot presentation," a shorter and cheaper version of a pilot, for Showtime, which is interested in turning "This American Life" into a TV series.

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