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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
Backed Into a Corner
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Dawna Lentz was a brand new, part-time employee at a Quiznos in Seattle when things started to fall apart at the franchise. First, the owners...
The Sanctity of Marriage
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Stories of people attempting to figure out what actually happens in marriages, during this time when the definition of marriage is up in the air....
Know Your Enemy
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It's hard for any story about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to be very surprising at this point, but in this show we have the tale of...
Somewhere In the Arabian Sea
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Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that supported bombing missions over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring...
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
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A software writer's job contract ends, but he refuses to go away. He continues to show up at work, sneaking in the door each day...
Family Business
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Stories of family businesses, and what happens when the tension of family dynamics collides with the pressure of capitalist market forces. In one story, Sean...
What I Should Have Said
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People return to the scene of the crime where they should have spoken clearly, plainly, forcefully ... to review what the hell went wrong, and...
DIY
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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He...
This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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Plan B
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There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some...
In Country
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Stories from inside Iraq. Including interviews with Arkansas National Guardsmen stationed a few miles from Baghdad and clips from a new documentary TV series about...
Christmas and Commerce
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Stories about the intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris' story "The Santaland Diaries" (from his book Barrel Fever) about David's two Christmas seasons...
You Are So Beautiful to Me
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Two stories about love, and what people mean when they use the word love. Or, looked at differently, two modern day reinterpretations of the Frog...
The Middle of Nowhere
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Behold the nation of Nauru, population 12,000, a third of the size of Manhattan, a tiny island thousands of miles from anywhere, yet at the...
