This American Life is an American public radio program hosted by Ira Glass, first broadcast in 1995 from Chicago public radio station WBEZ, presenting each week a set of documentary-style journalism and personal-narrative segments loosely organized around a single theme. The program departed from conventional radio news formats by favoring long-form storytelling with a strong authorial voice, a style that proved highly influential on the narrative-journalism podcasts that followed it decades later. This American Life is widely regarded as instrumental in establishing the modern narrative-audio format now common across public radio and podcasting.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: United States, originated there.
- Also in Language Atlas: English, original language there.
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1. This American Life (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, fourth sentence
The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse.
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This American Life is a weekly hour-long American radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.
This American Life, Description, original language
This American Life is an American public radio program hosted by Ira Glass, first broadcast in 1995 from Chicago public radio station WBEZ, presenting each week a set of documentary-style journalism and personal-narrative segments loosely organized around a single theme.
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This American Life is a weekly hour-long American radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.
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