Jay Allison
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Jay Allison is an American independent public radio producer and broadcast journalist. His work has been featured on radio programs such as This American Life, All Things Considered, and Morning Edition. Allison is the Executive Director of Atlantic Public Media and is the curator and co-producer of This I Believe.
Before coming to broadcasting, Allison was a theatre director in Washington, D.C. and New York City in the early 1970s.
He was the 1996 recipient of the CPB's Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding contributions to public radio; the only independent producer to have received it. He has also received five Peabody Awards.
Allison collected some of the best essays from the This I Believe series and published them in the book This I believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (ISBN 0-8050-8087-2).
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Allison's work has been featured in the following episodes of This American Life:
- Episode 26 - Father's Day '96
- Episode 31 - When You Talk About Music
- Episode 35 - Fall Clearance Sale
- Episode 40 - Lessons
- Episode 51 - Animals Die, People Ponder
- Episode 68 - Lincoln's Second Inaugural
- Episode 108 - Truth and Lies at Age Ten
- Episode 117 - You Gonna Eat That?
- Episode 149 - Bedside Diplomacy
- Episode 161 - Million Bubbles
- Episode 223 - Classifieds
- Episode 241 - 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
- Episode 256 - Living Without
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