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January 01, 1990 - October 08, 2012 + This American Life
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...
Sentencing
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Changes in U.S. sentencing laws over the last two decades have led to a doubling of the prison population. We meet some...
Barbara
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The story of a woman trying to get two of her children through their senior year of high school.
Invisible Worlds
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A man who listens in on all the police dispatcher messages, cellular phone conversations and other electromagnetic waves that fill the air around us...
The Book that Changed Your Life
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Stories of people who believe a book changed their life. It's a romantic notion, and one reason we believe it is because we...
Ghosts of Elections Past
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As we head into Presidential primary season, This American Life reruns the ...
The Real Thing
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The Real Thing, stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be. How some people...
You Are Here
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Stories of people trying to figure out where they are in the world - in the most literal and least literal ways possible. One...
We Didn't
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Stories about people NOT falling in love, NOT writing the Great Book, NOT doing the smart, fast thing. It turns out that NOT doing...
Marathon
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Celebrate the Fourth of July with an all-day marathon of "This American Life." The marvelous characters, the odd and eccentric personalities who tell us strange...
Trek
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For the Independence Day weekend, the story that describes the state of race relations in America, by following two Americans abroad. The story: ...
Sales
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It can be argued that the artform America leads the world in - more than any other - is the art of selling. We...
How To
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"How to" stories. Most how-to lessons promise that you'll not only learn skills; you'll be transformed. Host Ira Glass teaches writer Sarah Vowell...
The End of School
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Stories of students taking matters in their own hands: student activists, students who tote guns, students who pull pranks.
