Ira Glass to Bring 'REINVENTING RADIO' to MPAC, 5/5

Ira Glass, host of public radio's This American Life and editorial advisor for Serial, talks about pushing broadcast journalism to do things it normally doesn't do when he speaks at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 8 pm. Tickets for Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass are $29-69.

Glass will recreate stories from This American Life, combining his narration with pre-taped segments and music. He also will play funny and memorable moments from the program and what was behind their creation.

Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. The show is heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners on more than 500 public radio stations, with another million downloading the podcast. The show also airs each week on the CBC in Canada, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio network, and on BBC Radio 4 Extra in the UK. For years, the podcast of This American Life was the most popular podcast on iTunes, until the show started its first spin-off program Serial, which quickly became the most popular podcast in the world.

Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio's network headquarters in Washington, DC in 1978, when he was 19 years old. Over the years, he worked on nearly every NPR network news program and held virtually every production job in NPR's Washington headquarters. He has been a tape cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor, reporter and producer. He has filled in as host of Talk of the Nation and Weekend All Things Considered.

Under Glass's editorial direction, This American Life has won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including five Peabody awards. The American Journalism Review declared that the show is "at the vanguard of a journalistic revolution." A television adaptation of This American Life ran on the Showtime network for two seasons in 2007 and 2008, winning three Emmy awards including Outstanding Nonfiction Series.

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