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WHEN: Sat,
Apr 30, @ 8PM
WHERE: The Town Hall, 123 W 43rd Street, New York, NY
Pre-show VIP Meet & Greet add-on available for purchase.
It’s a
public radio dream event when prolific audio storytellers Ira Glass (This American Life) and Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) come together
to take you on a journey of insight, investigation and humanity in a way
that only they can.
Ira Glass
is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life.
Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio in 1978, when
he was 19 years old. He put This American Life on the air in 1995. He also
served as an editor for the groundbreaking podcasts Serial, S-Town and Nice White Parents. This American Life has
won the highest honors for broadcasting and journalistic excellence,
including seven Peabody awards and the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded
for audio journalism.
Jad Abumrad
is the creator and host of Radiolab,
co-hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser. He also hosts Everything. Together. Radio on Apple
Music Hits.
He’s won three George Foster Peabody Awards, and was honored as a MacArthur
Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant). Jad created and hosted three
seasons of More Perfect, a series about untold stories of the Supreme
Court. In 2019, he created Dolly
Parton’s America (along with osm Audio’s Shima Oliaee), a
Peabody Award-winning series that explores a divided America through the
life and music of one its greatest icons.
Presented by NJPAC Productions
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