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This American Life airs on Chicago Public Radio Fridays at 7pm and Saturday at 12pm.
One of the most critically-acclaimed programs in all of radio, Chicago Public Radio’s Ira Glass presents documentaries, essays and narrative exploring everyday life. Each week, we choose a theme, on which writers and performers share stories in a variety of styles.
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The Giant Pool of Money
A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the collapse of the investment bank Bear Stearns? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money. |
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Ira Glass
Host and Executive Producer, This American Life
Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978 when he was 19, as an intern at National Public Radio's Washington Headquarters. Over the course of the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show, and did nearly every production job they had: he was a tape cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter and substitute host.
He moved to Chicago in 1989. From there, he did several documentary series about public schools and about race relations for NPR. One followed a group of sophomores at Lincoln Park High School over a span of three years. Another documented school reform at Taft High School for a year. Yet another tracked life at Washington Irving Elementary School for a year.
This American Life went on the air in November of 1995.
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| Visit thisamericanlife.org for more! |
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