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Ira gives you a tour of the TAL app

Jake posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 | Blog | 1 Comment

It’s become de rigeur to offer quick video tours of new iPhone apps – something we also did for the Public Radio Player 2.0 release.

But when you’re developing an app for This American Life, who better to narrate the tour than the host of the show, Ira Glass himself?

Voilà! The TAL App tour by Ira. Evidently it’s hitting its mark, here’s one of the YouTube comments:

Ira, you’re a good salesman. I have had an iPhone for 2 years. This is the very first app that I’ve ever purchased. I began watching the video, saying to myself that if this app wasn’t free, I wouldn’t download it. I ended up buying it while the video was still playing.

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This American App: PRX and TAL partner to launch This American Life iPhone app

Jake posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 | Blog | 1 Comment

The official press release is coming soon, but we can’t contain ourselves here at PRX now that the This American Life iPhone app is live in the iTunes store!

http://tinyurl.com/thisamericanlifeapp

This American Life iPhone app

The app is a smorgasbord of TAL – the complete show archive, exclusive audio and video extras, staff lists of favorites and contributors, a link to the live broadcast each Friday night from Chicago Public Radio.

This has been many months in the making, with lots of hard work from the PRX tech team together with Ira Glass and his gang. Congratulations to everyone!

More news and background to come.

PRX staff gathers 'round the laptop for the big moment

Tags: app, iphone, ira glass, tal, this american life