This American Life: The Complete First Season

Public radio's award-winning THIS AMERICAN LIFE makes a successful translation to television with this penetrating Showtime series. As with the radio program, Ira Glass hosts these themed episodes about the bizarre, inspiring, heartbreaking, and often hilarious lives of average Americans. The emphasis continues to be on the voices of people telling their stories in their own words; but the added visual element adds an important dimension to these tales that make the show much more than merely a retread of the radio version. This collection presents all six episodes of the first season of the show.