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AUDIO: Ira Glass is shown in 2009 in an image from the TV version of This American Life, now repeating on Current TV. Glass talked to Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC's Q current affairs show, about the pioneering show now airing for the first time in Canada on CBC Radio One. (Monty Brinton/Showtime/Associated Press)

Acclaimed radio program This American Life made its Canadian debut Sunday night on CBC.

Q host Jian Ghomeshi talked to host Ira Glass on Monday about the pioneering show, which does unusual, often very personal stories, using creative narrative techniques.

Glass, who has been doing public radio since he finished college in the 1970s, talked about his love of radio and how stories make a connection to an audience.

"There's a certain kind of story you can do on the radio, with characters and scenes to it and funny moments, and there came a point where I realized this kind of story can be made, and no one else is making it," Glass said.

"There's an intimacy to radio that makes this kind of story-telling have real power."

This American Life has been made into a television series, now on Current TV, and some of its seminal stories are being developed as films. It airs on CBC Radio One at 11 p.m. Sunday (12 midnight AT).