Ira Glass on Ex

[FredLeonard]

As PRI is about to drop "This American Life," the BBC is picking it up in the UK and host Ira Glass sits from a featured interview in "The Guardian," one of Britain's leading national newspapers.

Ira Glass: 'The first time I took ecstasy, my anxiety lifted away'

Host and producer of This American Life on Orange is the New Black, why he doesn't tweet and how his dog Piney is doing

You might not know his face, but if you're one of the 2.1million listeners who tune into his weekly radio show, you definitely know his voice. Ira Glass is the host and producer of This American Life, a weekly radio show broadcast on 587 local radio stations in the US, the CBC in Canada, ABC in Australia, and as of Sunday, BBC Radio 4 Extra in the UK. As Glass prepares to take his show to another non-American audience, he discusses his feelings about becoming "the face of radio" in the US, and which stories have affected him the most. ... READ MORE

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-r...st-time-i-took-ecstasy-my-anxiety-lifted-away

Still no word on who will distribute "This American Life" after July 1st. The program is produced at WBEZ, Chicago. PRI is owned by WGBH, Boston.

 

[TheBigA]

The truth is he doesn't need a distributor. He's in a unique position where he could self-distribute if he wanted to.

 

[FredLeonard]

The truth is he doesn't need a distributor. He's in a unique position where he could self-distribute if he wanted to.

True, enough. And, of course, there's PRX (which is the next best thing). The way PRI and 'BEZ are not talking, this sounds like it's all about money.

 

[TheBigA]

The way PRI and 'BEZ are not talking, this sounds like it's all about money.

Maybe. From what I've read, the issue was control of web content.