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January 01, 1990 - January 07, 2013 + This American Life
In the Shadow of the City
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Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight.
This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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Settling the Score
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Erin Einhorn grew up begging her mother to tell her
the remarkable story of how she survived World War II, thanks to a
Polish woman who risked...
The Super
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Reporter Jack Hitt tells the story of how he helped
organize tenants and threaten a rent strike in a New York City building
back in the 1980s....
Shouting Across the Divide
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Serry and her husband's love story began in a place
not usually associated with romance: the West Bank. It was there that
the couple met, fell in...
Reruns
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In his comic novel Clumsy, Jeffrey Brown
documents the rise and fall of one of his very first romantic
relationships. Just after his girlfriend broke up with...
Sink or Swim
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta061202sink_or_swim
Stories of people who find themselves in over their
heads. A high school student, Chauncey Julius (pictured meeting
then-President Bill Clinton), turns his life around, only to...
Babysitting
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Stories of babysitters, from the point of view of
those doing the sitting, as well as those being sat. Includes one of
the most popular stories we've...
Heretics
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The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, an evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His church, Higher Dimensions,
was once one of the biggest in the city, drawing...
David and Goliath
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Variations on an old tale with very modern
consequences. Cambodia is competing with other nations for the business
of big clothing companies all over the world, buyers...
What's in a Number? 2006 Edition
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A new study in the British medical journal The Lancet
estimates the number of Iraqi dead since the U.S. invasion at over
600,000. This week, we look...
And the Call Was Coming from the Basement
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This week we terrify you with true stories of
kidnappings, zombie raccoons, haunted houses – real haunted houses! –
and things that go "EEEK!!!!" in the night....
Fiasco!
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Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong.
When you leave the normal realm of human error, fumble, mishap and
mistake and enter the territory of really...
Recordings For Someone
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All the stories in this week's show center on personal recordings that one person made for just one other person. We hear a tape that...
With Great Power
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A family in a quiet suburban neighborhood was
tormented by their next door neighbor. They say he killed their cat,
used weed killer to write the word...
