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An Evening with Ira Glass Seven Things I've Learned Tonight’S Program Will Last Approximately 90 Minutes

Saturday, March 23, 2019, 8pm Zellerbach hall An Evening with Ira Glass Seven Things I've Learned Tonight’s program will last approximately 90 minutes. ere will be no intermission. Cal Performances’ 2018 –19 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public a television adaptation of is American radio program is American Life , which is Life ran on the Showtime network for two sea - heard each week by over 2.2 million listeners sons. Glass has also produced three feature on more than 500 public radio stations, with films: Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t ink Twice and another 2.5 million downloading each podcast. Sleepwalk with Me , and the netflix movie he is also one of the editors of the podcasts Come Sunday . Serial and S-Town . Under Glass’ editorial direction, This Amer - Glass began his career as an intern at national i can Life has won the highest honors for broad - Public radio in wash ington, Dc in 1978, when casting and journalistic excellence, including six he was 19 years old. over the years, he worked Peabody awards. in 1999, the American Journa - on nearly every nPr network news program lism Review declared that This Ameri can Life was and held virtually every production job in the “in the vanguard of a journalistic revolution.” washington headquarters. he has been a tape Since then, a generation of podcasts and radio cutter, newscast writer, desk assistant, editor, shows have sprung up—including Radiolab, reporter, and producer. Glass has also filled in Invisibilia, StartUp, Reply All, Love + Radio, and as host of Talk of the Nation and Weekend All Heavyweight —building on the style of narrative ings Considered . journalism originally championed by Glass he put is American Life on the air in 1995. and his staff. 19.

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