Ira Glass began his career as an intern at National Public Radio’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in 1978. Today he is the host and producer of This American Life, a program that each week chooses a theme and puts together different kinds of stories on that theme. The show is heard on 500 radio stations and, most weeks, is the most popular podcast in America. Under Glass’s direction, This American Life has won the highest honors of broadcasting and journalistic excellence, including several Peabody and DuPont-Columbia awards.