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List Of 2011 This American Life Episodes
In 2011, there were 31 new '' This American Life'' episodes. * **Act 1: ''The Lie That Saved Brazil'' – Chana Joffe-Walt **Act 2: ''Weekend at Bernanke's'' – Alex Blumberg and David Kestenbaum * **Act 1: ''Trickle Down History'' – Starlee Kine **Act 2: ''Climate Changes. People Don't'' – Ira Glass **Act 3: ''Minor Authorities'' – Jyllian Gunther * **Act 1: ''When I Grow Up'' – David Holthouse **Act 2: ''Isn't It Slow-Mantic'' – Sean Lewis **Act 3: ''I'm Still Here'' – Jonathan Menjivar * **Act 1: ''Make 'Em Laff'' – Ira Glass **Act 2: ''Bar Car Prophesy'' – Rosie Schaap **Act 3: ''Mission: Impossible'' – Jane Feltes **Act 4: ''Contrails of My Ears'' – Brett Martin * **Act 1: ''Message in a Bottle'' – Ira Glass **Act 2: ''Ask Not What Your Handwriting Authenticator Can Do For You; Ask What You Can Do For Your Handwriting Authenticator'' – Jake Halpern * **Act 1: Act One **Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This American Life
''This American Life'' (''TAL'') is an American monthly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internationally, and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage. The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, ''Your Radio Playhouse''. The series was distributed by Public Radio International until June 2014, when the program became self-distributed with Public Radio Exchange delivering new episodes to public radio stations. A This American Life (TV series), television adaptation of the show ran for two seasons on the Showtime (TV network), Showtime cable network between June 2007 and May 2008. Format Each week's show has a theme, explored in several "acts". On occasion, an entir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Martin (writer)
Brett Martin may refer to: * Brett Martin (baseball) (born 1995), American professional baseball pitcher * Brett Martin (squash player) (born 1963), Australian professional squash player {{hndis, Martin, Brett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of This American Life Episodes
The following is a list of the yearly lists of ''This American Life'' radio episodes. ''This American Life'' is a weekly hour-long public radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio and hosted by Ira Glass. It began as a radio program in 1995. * List of 1995 ''This American Life'' episodes (#1–7) * List of 1996 ''This American Life'' episodes (#8–47) * List of 1997 ''This American Life'' episodes (#48–87) * List of 1998 ''This American Life'' episodes (#88–118) * List of 1999 ''This American Life'' episodes (#119–148) * List of 2000 ''This American Life'' episodes (#149–174) * List of 2001 ''This American Life'' episodes (#175–202) * List of 2002 ''This American Life'' episodes (#203–227) * List of 2003 ''This American Life'' episodes (#228–255) * List of 2004 ''This American Life'' episodes (#256–279) * List of 2005 ''This American Life'' episodes (#280–305) * List of 2006 ''This American Life'' episodes (#306–322) * List of 2007 ''This American Life'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Goldstein (author)
Jonathan Goldstein (born August 22, 1969) is an American-Canadian author, humorist and radio producer. Goldstein has worked on radio programs and podcasts such as ''Heavyweight'', ''This American Life,'' and ''WireTap''. Goldstein's work has been academically examined as representative of "the positioning of Jews and Canadians as potentially overlooked minorities in the late-twentieth- and early twenty-first-century United States". Early life Goldstein was born to Buzz and Dina Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, where he spent the first four years of his life before the family moved to Montreal, Quebec, his mother's hometown. The family settled in the suburb of Laval. Goldstein attended McGill University and later completed a master's program in creative writing at Concordia University. Career After graduation, Goldstein supported himself by working in the telemarketing industry for ten years while continuing to write and attend readings. He talked about this tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson (born 10 May 1967) is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker whose works include '' Them: Adventures with Extremists'' (2001), ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'' (2004), and ''The Psychopath Test'' (2011). He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a '' faux-naïf'' character in his stories. He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as ''The Guardian'', '' City Life'' and '' Time Out''. He has made several BBC Television documentary films and two documentary series for Channel 4. Early life Ronson was born in Cardiff on 10 May 1967. He attended Cardiff High School and later worked for CBC Radio in Cardiff before moving to London to study for a media degree at the Polytechnic of Central London.Nathan BevanWho is Jon Ronson? WalesOnline.co.uk, retrieved 13 June 2011. Career Writing Ronson's first book, ''Clubbed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Updike
Nancy Updike is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on radio programs including '' This American Life'' and '' All Things Considered'', and has been published in '' The New York Times Magazine'', ''LA Weekly'', '' The Boston Globe'', and Salon.com. She graduated from Amherst College in 1991. Personal life Updike is married to Daniel Ephron, an editor at Foreign Policy. They had their first date on July 1, 2003 at Focaccia Bar, an Italian restaurant in Jerusalem. Career ''This American Life'' Updike won a Peabody Award in 1996 for her work as a producer on ''This American Life''. She won the Edward R. Murrow Award for news documentary (2005), and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award for the episode of ''This American Life'' about private contractors in Iraq titled "I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help." ''Serial'' Updike is a producer and co-creator of the true crime podcast '' Serial''. Early in production, the creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rakoff
David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, 1964 – August 9, 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer of prose and poetry based in New York City, who wrote humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's ''This American Life''. Rakoff described himself as a "New York writer" who also happened to be a "Canadian writer", a "mega Jewish writer", a "gay writer", and an "East Asian Studies major who has forgotten most of his Japanese" writer. Early life and education David Rakoff was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the youngest of three children. His brother, the comedian Simon Rakoff, is four years older than David. Their sister, Ruth Rakoff, author of the cancer memoir ''When My World Was Very Small'', is the middle child.Johnson, Sharilyn"Preview: Simon and David Rakoff" ''Uptown Magazine'', June 6, 2006. Retrieved January 20, 2010.Hamson, Sarah ''Globe and Mail'', October 22, 2005. Ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Very Tough Love
"Very Tough Love" is a radio documentary and an episode of ''This American Life'' (''TAL''), which originally aired on March 25, 2011. The segment described a drug court and program in Glynn County, Georgia, which conducts itself in a manner unlike other drug courts throughout the United States. Offenders with no prior criminal record or history of drug abuse or addiction, charged with possession of small drug quantities, would wind up under drug court control for five years or more. In most other jurisdictions, the same offenses would result in probation or a drug education class. These charges went contrary to drug court philosophy, according to standards set by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals. New project In the spring of 2010, ''TAL'' staff took on a different challenge: follow the methods used by Charles Salter in the 1970s when he wrote hundreds of "Georgia Rambler" columns for the ''Atlanta Journal''. Nine diverse counties across Georgia were selected— ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jake Halpern
Jake Halpern (born 1975) is an American writer, commentator, and radio producer. Life and career He was born in Buffalo, New York, where he attended City Honors School. Halpern later attended Yale University, where he received an undergraduate degree in 1997. He has written for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New Yorker'', the '' New Republic'', ''Entertainment Weekly'', ''Slate'', '' Smithsonian'', '' GQ'', ''Sports Illustrated'', ''New York Magazine'', and other publications. Halpern is also a commentator and a freelance producer for National Public Radio's ''All Things Considered'' and a contributor to ''This American Life''. Jake's hour-long radio story, "Switched at Birth," was selected by host Ira Glass as one of the eight stories that best represent ''This American Life'' to new listeners. His first book, ''Braving Home'' (), considered the lives of Americans who actively chose to live in or near dangerous places like volcanoes. The boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Feltes
Jane may refer to: * Jane (given name), a feminine given name * Jane (surname), related to the given name Film and television * ''Jane'' (1915 film), a silent comedy film directed by Frank Lloyd * ''Jane'' (2016 film), a South Korean drama film starring Lee Min-ji * ''Jane'' (2017 film), an American documentary film about Jane Goodall * ''Jane'' (2022 film), an American psychological thriller directed by Sabrina Jaglom * Jane (TV series), an 1980s British television series Music * ''Jane'' (album), an album by Jane McDonald * Jane (American band) * Jane (German band) * Jane, unaccompanied and original singer of " It's a Fine Day" in 1983 Songs * "Jane" (Barenaked Ladies song), 1994 * "Jane", a song by Ben Folds Five from their 1999 album '' The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner'' * "Jane" (Century song) * "Jane", a song by Elf Power * "Jane", a song by EPMD from '' Strictly Business'' * "Jane" (Jefferson Starship song), 1979 * "Jane", a song by the Loved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chana Joffe-Walt
Chana Joffe-Walt is a radio journalist and producer. She has worked for ''Planet Money'' and ''This American Life''. Early life Joffe-Walt's parents are South African. She graduated from Oberlin College in 2003. Career Joffe-Walt began her radio career volunteering for a community radio station outside Seattle, KBCS. She was later a reporter for the Seattle radio station KPLU and a freelancer for NPR before being recruited to work for ''Planet Money''. She then became a producer for ''This American Life''. In 2020, the ''New York Times'' published ''Nice White Parents'', a five-part podcast reported by Joffe-Walt. Awards In 2016, Joffe-Walt, along with Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ira Glass Ira Jeffrey Glass (; born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television series ''This American Life'' and has participated in other NPR programs, including ''Morning Edition'', ..., won a Peabody Award for an episode of ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Schaap
Rosie may refer to: Geography * Rosie, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Rosie River, Northern Territory, Australia People and characters * Rosie (given name) * Rosie the Rocketeer (aka "Rosie"), a Boeing spaceflight test dummy * Rosie the Riveter, a World War II character used to encourage women to work on the home front Film * ''Rosie'' (1965 film), an Indian Malayalam film starring Prem Nazir * '' Rosie!'', a 1967 film starring Rosalind Russell * ''Rosie'' (1998 film), a Belgian film * ''Rosie'' (2013 film), a Swiss film * ''Rosie'' (2018 film), an Irish film * ''Rosie'' (2022 film), a Canadian film Television * ''Rosie'' (TV series), a 1970s BBC TV police series * Rosie Awards, the Alberta Film and Television Awards Music Groups * Rosie and the Originals, an American 1960s musical group * Rosie, a 1970s band of singer David Lasley Albums * '' Rosie (album)'', by Fairport Convention (1973) * ''Rosie'', an album by John Parish (2000) Songs * "Rosie", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
