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January 01, 1990 - March 01, 2013 + This American Life
After the Flood
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Surprising stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. A woman who was at the convention center talks about some things she says were...
Garbage
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We make what's usually invisible, visible: the world of trash. We follow it from the sanitation men on the street, to the mob guys who...
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...
Hitler's Yacht
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early this entire show is devoted to the story of the boat known as "Hitler's Yacht." It's a modern-day fable about what happens when the...
This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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Family Legend
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How, one might wonder, could a simple hunk of cheese drive a wedge between an aging aunt and her devoted niece? Sure, every family has...
A Little Bit of Knowledge
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An electrician believes he's discovered a flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity and sets out to prove to the world that he's right. And other...
Home Movies
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Home movies are often all the same - kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties - so why do we make and watch...
The Arms Trader
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The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation, trapping an Indian man named Hemant Lakhani whom they suspected of being an illegal arms...
Notes On Camp
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Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we attempt...
My Experimental Phase
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Stories about people taking a shot at a whole new life. A man who's living like someone in 19th century Poland - no television, no...
I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
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Contributing Editor Nancy Updike went to Iraq last year to try to figure out what it's like to be a private citizen working in the...
Godless America
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At a time when House Majority Leader Tom Delay calls for enacting a "Biblical worldview" in government, when Christians are asserting their ideals in the...
Animals
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Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human. Includes an original radio drama by David Sedaris in which...
Didn't Ask To Be Born
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Debra Gwartney loved her two oldest daughters like she loved herself. And they loved her in return. But Debra got a divorce, moved the family...
