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List Of 2015 This American Life Episodes
In 2015, there were 33 new ''This American Life'' episodes. * ** air date: 2015-01-09 ** Act 1: Batman Begins. ** Act 2: The Dark Knight Rises. * ** air date: 2015-01-23 ** Act 1: Ask Not for Whom The Bell Trolls; It Trolls for Thee. ** Act 2: Freedom Fries. ** Act 3: Words of Prey. ** Act 4: Mailer Demon. * ** air date: 2015-01-30 ** Act 1: Burroughs, Part One. ** Act 2: Burroughs, Part Two. * ** air date: 2015-02-06 ** Act 1: ** Act 2: * ** air date: 2015-02-13 ** Act 1: Inconvenience Store. ** Act 2: Comey Don't Play That. * ** air date: 2015-02-27 ** Act 1: Theater of War. ** Act 2: And Baby Makes 0011. ** Act 3: Commander In Brief. * ** air date: 2015-03-13 ** Act 1: ** Act 2: * ** air date: 2015-03-20 ** Act 1: Takes One To Know One. ** Act 2: Heels On The Bus. ** Act 3: No Man Left Behind. ** Act 4: The Test. * ** air date: 2015-03-27 ** Act 1: Full Disclosure. ** Act 2: Total Eclipse of the Son. ** Act 3: The Favorite. * ** air date: 2015-04-03 ** Act 1: Do ... [...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] |
Blair Braverman
Blair Braverman (born May 7, 1988) is an American adventurer, dogsled racer, musher, advice columnist and nonfiction writer. She raced and completed the 2019 Iditarod, the dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. In 2016, the Outdoor Industry Association selected Braverman as one of ''Outdoor 30 Under 30 list'' and '' Publishers Weekly'' called Braverman a "21st century feminist reincarnation of Jack London." Background Braverman was born on May 7, 1988, the daughter of research scientist Jana Kay Slater and university professor and author Marc Braverman. She was raised Jewish in California's Central Valley. When she was ten, her family moved for a year to Norway for her father's research on the country's comprehensive smoking ban. Braverman attended local schools. Returning to Davis, California, Braverman finished her schooling, including a term as an exchange student in Lillehammer, Norway. Spending summers at Camp Tawonga, a Jewish camp near Yosemite, she l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rumpus
''The Rumpus'' is an online literary magazine launched on January 20, 2009. The site features interviews, book reviews, essays, comics, and critiques of creative culture as well as original fiction and poetry. The site runs two subscription-based book clubs and two subscription-based letters programs, Letters in the Mail and Letters for Kids. ''The Rumpus'' has fostered writers, artists, and editors like Roxane Gay who served as Essays Editor and who credits the site for developing her audience, Isaac Fitzgerald who served as Managing Editor before moving to BuzzFeed to help create BuzzFeed Books, Rick Moody, Wendy MacNaughton, Paul Madonna, Peter Orner, Yumi Sakugawa, Steve Almond, and Cheryl Strayed, who began her "Dear Sugar" advice column on the site. In July 2016, the site launched the Rumpus Lo-Fi Film Festival in Los Angeles as response to the high cost of other festivals. In January 2017, ''The Rumpus'' was purchased by Marisa Siegel, previously the site's Managing Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...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] |
2015 In Radio
The following is a list of events that affected radio broadcasting in 2015. Events listed include radio program debuts, finales, cancellations, station launches, closures and format changes, as well as information about controversies. Notable events January February March April May June July August September October November December Debuts Closings Deaths *January 1: Mario Cuomo, 82. Former Governor of New York and early progressive talk radio host. *January 2: Little Jimmy Dickens, 94. Frequent host and member of the ''Grand Ole Opry''; country musician and comedian. *January 4: Lance Diamond, 68. Radio host on WJYE and musician. *January 7: Bernard Maris, 68, French journalist and radio presenter (killed in the terrorist attack on the ''Charlie Hebdo'' offices in Paris. *January 9: Bud Paxson, 79. Radio and television owner, founder of Paxson Communications. *January 15: Raoul Pantin, 71, Trinidadian journalist and broadcaster *January 17: Justin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
