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January 01, 1990 - March 01, 2013 + This American Life

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...

Not What I Signed Up For

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Marian Fontana thinks she's going onto a news show for a five-minute interview about firefighters and 9/11 ... and ends up in a situation that...

Unconditional Love

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Hard as it is to believe, during the 1930's and 40's a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible...

Getting and Spending

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How far will we go to get money? And once we've got it, what should we spend it on? This week, answers to these giant...

Americans in Paris

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Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s, to the vision of Paris created by the...

This American Life Pledge Drive Special

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The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig

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Wolves and rabbits and bears are the usual suspects in our fables --- but who will serve as the heroes of our modern-day tales? This...

D.I.Y.

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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man, Collin Warner, out of prison, his friend, Carl King, takes on the case himself. He becomes...

Reunited (and It Feels So Good)

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Stories about getting back together with your parent, your spouse, your ... Brahmin bull. When Ralph and Sandra's pet bull Chance died, science brought him...

It's Never Over

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Jon Ronson goes to his high school reunion to try to get to the bottom of why his schoolmates threw him into a lake twenty...

Father's Day

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For Father's Day, stories about fathers going out of their way to protect their kids, and kids going out of their way to protect their...

Julia Sweeney

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When comedienne Julia Sweeney and her brother both got cancer, she decided to tell the story the best way she knew how: in a comedy...