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January 01, 1990 - February 16, 2013 + This American Life
'This American Life' Television Series
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"...When we started talking about doing a television show, we knew we
wanted to do something that would keep the feeling of the radio show --
that'll...
By Proxy
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Robert was a kid with a bad reputation—he
got in trouble at school a lot—but his best friend, Lilly, thought he was misunderstood. After Robert died,...
Kid Logic
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Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
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
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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....
