This American Life
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| Radio show from Chicago , United States | |
| publication | since 1995 |
| production | WBEZ |
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| Moderation | Ira Glass |
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This American Life (TAL) is a one-hour, weekly radio broadcast produced by Chicago Public Radio in the United States and available worldwide as a podcast . The program, moderated by Ira Glass , focuses on reports that are always dedicated to a specific topic and are sometimes supplemented by essays or short stories. TAL was first broadcast on November 17, 1995, at that time under the title Your Radio Playhouse .
This American Life's entries have won a number of awards including six Peabody Awards , the George Polk Award , Chicago Third Coast International Audio Festival awards, and a Pulitzer Prize . The show reaches around 1.8 million listeners every week and is downloaded as a podcast half a million times.
From 2007 to 2008 a TV adaptation of the same name, also moderated by Ira Glass, ran on the American TV channel Showtime . Although the show ran successfully and received three Emmy Awards , Glass and the editorial team decided after two seasons to discontinue the TV show and concentrate fully on the radio show.
The popular podcast serial by This American Life journalist and producer Sarah Koenig from 2014 is a spin-off from TAL .
In 2019, the Netflix in-house production Unbelievable , based on the TAL episode The Anatomy of Doubt , premiered .
Web links
- Site of This American Life (English)
- Website of TAL -Spinoff Serial (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Audio Reporting: Staff of This American Life with Molly O'Toole of the Los Angeles Times and Emily Green, freelancer, Vice News. Columbia University , 2020, accessed June 11, 2020 .
- ^ This American Life: About the Television Show
- ^ The New Yorker: Serial
- ↑ Randall Colburn: Netflix unveils trailer for Unbelievable, a limited series based on Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting. In: The AV Club. July 18, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2020 .