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January 01, 1990 - May 05, 2012 + This American Life
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
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta061111david_and_goliath
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
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta061104whats_in_a_number_20
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...
Not What I Signed Up For
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ta/ta060930not_what_i_signed_up
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...
