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January 01, 1990 - October 07, 2012 + This American Life
The Secret World of Daytime
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What happens in the world when people are supposed to be at work and school?
Sinatra
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Stories, tributes, and attempts at understanding the Chairman of the Board. Gay Talese reads his classic Sinatra Has a Cold. Sarah Vowell makes a...
What Remains
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Stories in the aftermath of great change. David Rakoff goes searching across borders, in hospital backrooms, for something he lost years ago. Julie...
Dolls
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Stories of what people are playing at when they play with dolls.
Crush
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Stories of love in its earliest stage. Crushes: what's terrible about them, what's great about them and how they can overshadow real love...
Primary
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Today's program is made all of stories from the New Hampshire primary. Voters want to find a candidate who inspires them. Candidates want...
Kids As Adults
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Stories of kids acting like adults. Working adult jobs, making meals and keeping house, witnessing adult disasters, seeing things that most adults try to keep...
Hospital Diplomacy
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In the hospital, we give up our normal schedule and sleep patterns; we give up our normal food and clothing; we're in a...
Twentieth Century Man
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A program for the end ...
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
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A special Christmas edition of our show, with stories about...
A Teenager's Guide to God
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It's an odd fact of religious life in America that in ...
Urban Nature
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We usually believe that our dominion over nature is thorough and near-complete. But sometimes it becomes clear that there are some chinks the...
Poultry '99
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For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and...
Other People's Mail
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When you read other people's mail, you can't help but try to fill in between the lines. You try to decipher the stories of the...
Death in the Family
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One reason we tell stories is to explain to ourselves things that cannot, in the end, always be explained. When someone we're close...