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BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University will present a talk by “This American Life” radio host and producer Ira Glass at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 20 on the Performing Arts Center Mainstage. Borrowing the title from his audio CD, Glass will speak about “Lies, Sissies and Fiascoes: Notes on Making a New Kind of Radio.” Tickets cost $15 for adults, seniors and WWU faculty and staff, and $11 for students. Tickets may be purchased at the Western Box Office, open weekdays from noon to 6 p.m. and beginning one hour prior to the performance. Contact the WWU Box Office at (360) 650-6146, boxoffice@wwu.edu or http://www.tickets.wwu.edu. For disability accommodations, please contact the Western Box Office at the number above or (800) 998-2372. “This American Life” premiered on Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ in 1995 and is now heard on more than 500 public radio stations each week by at least 1.7 million listeners. Glass documents contemporary American culture through narratives and pinpoints the unusual in everyday life. His CD was named one of the best of 1999 by Amazon.com. “With the rise of more and more forms of media, the American storytelling tradition has become increasingly fractured,” wrote reviewer Randy Silver. “Praise be then for ‘This American Life,’ a weekly radio anthology of stories that never fail to move even the most casual listener.” Glass began his public radio career in 1978, at the age of 19, as an intern at National Public Radio’s Washington Headquarters. For the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did every production job available, including tape cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter and substitute host. For more information about this lecture, contact Amber Darland, New Student Services, New Student Services, (360) 650-3846 Amber.Darland@wwu.edu. |
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