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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
Middle of the Night
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Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping -- some for work, some for play, and some for a free...
Bait and Switch
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Stories about people who take the bait, and those who place it. Including the story of man who tries to investigate a neighborhood crime and...
Infidelity
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Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated. Writer James Braly with a story about temptation (performed and recorded at The Moth), Dani Shapiro on being...
Someone Else's Money
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This week, we bring you a deeper look inside the health insurance industry: the dark side of prescription drug coupons, a story about Pet Health...
More Is Less
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An hour explaining the American healthcare system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising. One story looks at the doctors, one at the patients...
Another Dive into 'The Giant Pool of Money'
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In which we mark the anniversary of the economic collapse and the anniversary of Planet Money: recapping some of the original episode, The Giant Pool...
Frenemies
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This week we bring you stories about friends. Or wait, enemies? How about both? Tales of estranged sisters, BFF's breaking up and making up and...
Rest Stop
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Nine radio producers, two days, one rest stop on the New York State Thruway. Stories of people who are just passing through, and people who...
Fear of Sleep
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Mike Birbiglia got used to strange things happening to him when he slept -- until something happened that almost killed him. Mike's story and other...
Pro Se
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It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause. Who better to defend your position than you? This week, stories of...
Fall Guy
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Sometimes when things go wrong, parsing out who all is to blame and taking them to task is just too complicated and haaaard! What's easy...
Origin Story
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This week we bring you little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions — from a controversial legal precedent to a Hollywood teen...
The Watchmen
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One of the biggest questions about this financial crisis gripping our economy: How did it happen? Wasn't someone supposed to watching things? Making sure people...
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...
