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January 01, 1990 - July 12, 2012 + This American Life
Turncoat
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A well-known activist -— an anarchic, revolutionary activist —- is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor...
No Map
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A show about people who find themselves well off the beaten path, at
least in any way that they could have anticipated — in terms of...
This I Used to Believe
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Stories of people forced to let go of their firmly held beliefs. When the daughter of a pro-choice activist concludes that abortion is murder, her...
Scenes from a Recession
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The economy works in mysterious ways. We highlight the unusual circumstances our economic drought has left us in, and the newly-hatched plans being made to...
Wrong Side of History
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Bernie Epton went down in history as the Other Guy: the white opponent who almost defeated the first black mayor of Chicago. But what’s the...
Bad Bank
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Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson team up once again
to talk economy about why America's working men and women have given billions of taxpayer dollars...
Somewhere Out There
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Of all the six and a half billion people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match? Stories...
Radio Round-up of This American Life, Chapter II
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A
round-up of favorite stories from the series, selected especially for the pledge drive.
Radio Round-up of This American Life
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A round-up of favorite stories from This American Life that reminds us what makes radio special.
The Inauguration Show
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People from all over the country weigh in with their feelings about the new president. Plus, NPR international economics correspondent Adam Davidson on how Obama's...
Numbers
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Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that...
The Mall Show
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This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, to see what people are buying in this grim financial mood, and how...
Ruining It for the Rest of Us
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When they decided not to vaccinate their son against measles, two San Diego parents thought they were making the best decision for their child. But...
Heretics
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The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he'd...
Poultry Slam 2008
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A man in Pakistan wants to break his friend out of prison. He buys him
an amulet that supposedly has the power to protect anyone from...
