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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
Lost in America
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Stories of people who are lost, histories that are lost, and things that are lost. Sarah Vowell tells the lost story behind a patriotic song,...
Propriety
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Once upon a time there were clear rules for the right things to do and the right things to say. These days, it's not so...
Prom
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Tales from what is often the most eagerly anticipated and bitterly disappointing night of high school, including Susan Burton's story of what happened on Prom...
Fake Science
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Stories of people trying to drag science where it doesn't belong. Jake Warga attempts to record the voices of the dead in a "haunted" cemetery....
Special Treatment
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We love it when we get it, but is it ever really fair? Is trying to get it worth it? This week, The U.S. Medical...
Testosterone
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A lot of stuff gets attributed to this one little hormone. We hear stories of its actual power, from people who would know. A man...
Desperate Measures
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Stories of people and places at rock bottom, and the ingenious ways they try to turn things around. A town in Pennsylvania decides taking in...
My Two Cents
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A machine was supposed to revolutionize the beverage business. It dispensed chilled off-brand soda into reusable two-liter bottles for a fraction of the cost of...
Miracle Cures
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This week on This American Life, a deaf woman goes to Brazil to ask John of God for her hearing back, and brings her skeptical...
The Facts Don't Matter
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In 1942, George Dasch led a team of eight Nazi saboteurs who landed on the beach on Long Island with plans to blow up factories...
Simulated Worlds
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Simulated worlds, Civil war reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle and other re-created worlds that thrive all across...
Guns
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Stories about guns, and the special hold they have on the American imagination.
The Fix Is In
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Yes, airline prices are always the same no matter which airline you call; in Presidential elections you always feel like you're choosing between the lesser...
Selections from Crimebusters + Crossed Wires
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Some of the many brilliant pieces from the award-winning PRI radio show with host Ira Glass featuring humorist David Sedaris, author Sarah Vowell and others.
30 Acts in 60 Minutes
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instead of the regular "each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme" business, we throw all that...
