Ira Glass on Storytelling
Has anyone not seen this?
Ira Glass is the executive producer/host of the long-running NPR show "This American Life" which hails out of Chicago. Episodes of the show are available as podcasts through iTunes or can be streamed (or purchased) of the TAL website.
Each hour-long program is journalistic storytelling at its very best. One of my favorite stories is from 2001. It's the third act in a show called Them. It's about a black sailor during WW2 who washes onshore in Newfoundland and nursed back to life by a group of white nurses who have never seen a black man. They thought he was covered in oil and tried to scrub him clean. It is a story so touching that I sat in my car for fifteen minutes to hear the whole thing even though I was late for work that day.
Do yourself a favor and watch Ira talk about storytelling. If you've seen this, watch it again.
Ira Glass is the executive producer/host of the long-running NPR show "This American Life" which hails out of Chicago. Episodes of the show are available as podcasts through iTunes or can be streamed (or purchased) of the TAL website.
Each hour-long program is journalistic storytelling at its very best. One of my favorite stories is from 2001. It's the third act in a show called Them. It's about a black sailor during WW2 who washes onshore in Newfoundland and nursed back to life by a group of white nurses who have never seen a black man. They thought he was covered in oil and tried to scrub him clean. It is a story so touching that I sat in my car for fifteen minutes to hear the whole thing even though I was late for work that day.
Do yourself a favor and watch Ira talk about storytelling. If you've seen this, watch it again.
posted by Gina Black at 5:33 PM
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Thanks, Gina.
I started watching/listening and now will have to grab the podcasts of that show.
What a storyteller and such wisdom he shared.
Thanks!
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