This American Life Goes Hollywood (or Something Like That)

in Media | March 5th, 2007

 


      

 


This Amer­i­can Life, a slight­ly quirky but always com­pelling radio show, has devel­oped a large and fierce­ly ded­i­cat­ed audi­ence since it first aired in 1995. And nowa­days, the pro­gram, host­ed by Ira Glass, is one of the most pop­u­lar pod­casts on iTunes. (It cur­rent­ly ranks #2 on the most pop­u­lar pod­cast list: iTunes  Feed  Web Site.) On March 22, This Amer­i­can Life will take the next step in its evo­lu­tion when Show­time airs a tele­vised ver­sion of the pro­gram. If you’re a fan who is won­der­ing what the show might look like on TV — how they might trans­late the feel of the show to a visu­al medi­um — below you can find a cou­ple of trail­ers that will give you a quick taste:

See Open Cul­ture’s Pod­cast Col­lec­tions:

Arts & Cul­ture — Audio Books — For­eign Lan­guage Lessons — News & Infor­ma­tion — Sci­ence — Tech­nol­o­gy — Uni­ver­si­ty (Gen­er­al) — Uni­ver­si­ty (B‑School)

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MLK’s “Stride Toward Freedom” (A Free Lecture)

in History | March 5th, 2007

For many life­long learn­ers, The Teach­ing Com­pa­ny is a bless­ing. Since 1990, the com­pa­ny has record­ed uni­ver­si­ty cours­es taught by lead­ing pro­fes­sors and made them avail­able to con­sumers. The cours­es, which tend to be bread-and-but­ter in a good way, range in price depend­ing on the media for­mat you choose. If you buy cours­es on sale (they always run sales), and if you buy the cheap­er MP3 ver­sions (as opposed to the more expen­sive DVDs and audio CDs), you can get a lot of val­ue for your mon­ey. For exam­ple, 24 excel­lent lec­tures on Ancient Greece will run you $34.95, which is not too shab­by.

Now how does all of this tie into what we do here at Open Cul­ture? Here’s how: The Teach­ing Com­pa­ny has post­ed a free 45-minute lec­ture on Mar­tin Luther King, “Stride Toward Free­dom,” which is part of a larg­er course called “Free­dom: Phi­los­o­phy of Lib­er­a­tion.” You can access the lec­ture in dif­fer­ent audio for­mats here, and you’ll get a sense of what The Teach­ing Com­pa­ny is all about.

Caveat: The free offer­ing was sup­posed to have expired on Feb­ru­ary 28. So it may go away soon.


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