Some last minute tickets to see Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life program at Atlanta Symphony Hall fell into our laps late yesterday afternoon. Since the tickets came with a pre-arranged baby-sitter, it was a no-brainer. We knew that the appearance wasn’t going to be a live radio show, so we weren’t sure what to expect.
Glass presented an hour long lecture about story telling and why he thinks that radio works so well for telling “human-sized” stories. It was a great lecture, filled with humor and recorded examples from the show. I haven’t had time to fully integrate my new story telling techniques into this post, however. It was a very cool way to spend a Sunday night with friends. Do check him out if he comes to a city near you.
Some Links:
- An episode, Habeas Schmabeus, about the Guantanamo prison camp just won a Peabody Award. The episode will keep you up nights. Listen to it here.
- Watch the first episode of the TV show here.
- This American Life spoofed at The Onion.
Speaking of Peabody, there is this strange resemblance…
April 30th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Of all the things to comment on, this is so inane - but, wow - Mr. Peabody! Haven’t thought of him in years. (Of course, why would I?) Kind of fun to see that picture.
And, yeah, there’s a definite resemblance.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
The glasses, the smile, the hair. It’s all there. Thanks for backing my call.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
And you’ll notice that you never see them both in the same place at the same time. Hmmmm.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
I hate I missed this last night, and as it turned out, I could have gone. Oh well, your post mortem and the one episode of the TV show that I haven’t watched yet will have to do (they only did 5, and now the show is on a break — don’t know for how long).
April 30th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Frank: It was interesting, Glass said that the TV show audience is less than half of the radio show. Yet, everyone assumes that since they are on TV that they’ve somehow made it.