Ira GlassIF YOU GOWhat: George T. Hunter Lecture Series, featuring Ira GlassWhen: 4 p.m. Sunday, April 7Where: Tivoli Theatre, 709 Broad St.Admission: FreePhone: 423-267-4311Venue website: www.benwood.orgHEAR IT”This American Life” is locally broadcast Saturdays at 7 p.m. on WUTC-FM 88.1.
The fifth season of the George T. Hunter Lecture Series will bow out with the help of one of the airwaves’ most-celebrated radio personalities, Ira Glass.
Glass, 54, is best known as the host and producer of “This American Life,” a three-time Peabody Award-winning program featuring thought-provoking segments, often related as first-person narratives. According to its website, “This American Life” is carried by 500 stations and heard by an average audience of 1.8 million.
A podcast of the program has long been the most-popular podcast on iTunes. A televised edition aired on Showtime from 2007 to 2009 and won two Emmy Awards for outstanding nonfiction series and directing for nonfiction programming.
Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s Washington D.C., headquarters at age 19. In addition to his work with “This American Life,” he also has served as a stand-in host for “Talk of the Nation” and “Weekend All Things Considered.”