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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
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...
Recordings for Someone
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Every story in this show is built out of a recording that one person has made for another person, usually somebody they're close to. A...
Middlemen
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Stories of people caught in the middle. A young man gets a job transcribing and reading TTY calls for deaf people and their hearing friends...
This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
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Oh, they shouldn't have! Two grown sons show up on their mother's doorstep bearing a gift only a mother could love. Also the story of...
Poultry Slam
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As we near the highest poultry consumption time of year - the weeks between Christmas and Thanksgiving - we hear stories of chickens, turkeys, ducks,...
Brother's Keepers
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In his ongoing effort to write his own version of the Bible, Jonathan Goldstein retells the story of Cain and Abel. Finally we hear Cain's...
The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice
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A man gets himself elected to the state legislature to try and make the world a better place, but finds that personal principles and representative...
Like It or Not
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Some stories we make happen, others happen to us. Sometimes we have no choice, but other times we just can't seem to act, even when...
Conventions
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What happens when people with one common interest gather in monstrous, flourescent-lit halls for the weekend? Sometimes they drive each other crazy, sometimes they fall...
81 Words
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For decades, the entry on "Sexual Deviations" in the official manual of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) contained 81 words. For decades, homosexuality was included...
Classifieds
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In this show we take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the local alternative weekly Chicago Reader,...
Jobs That Take Over Your Life
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This show is about you. You spend too much time at work. You spend too much time thinking about work. And if you don't have...
What Is This Thing?
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This thing called love, that is. For answers we explore the romance novel industry, a 1.5 billion dollar empire run almost entirely by and for...
Allure of the Mean Friend
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What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and...
Give the People What They Want
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Stories of people who go to great lengths to give people what they want - how they're rewarded sometimes, and misguided other times.
