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January 01, 1990 - October 14, 2012 + This American Life
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.
Kid Logic
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The perfectly logical, and perfectly wrong, reasoning of children.
This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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This week's special edition of This American Life features segments from the forthcoming collection Crime Busters and Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life....
This American Life Pledge Drive Special
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This week's special edition of This American Life features segments from the forthcoming collection Crime Busters and Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life....
Later that Same Day
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Despite the pretty title, most of the stories in this show don't actually happen in one day. In fact, there's a huge passage of time....
Enemy Camp
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Stories of enemies who become friends, friends who become enemies, and the ever-shifting line between friendly and hostile territory. A priest who once covered up...
Media Fringe
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Scott Carrier took a job in commercial radio working for a network correspondent he refers to as "The Friendly Man." Every story he was sent...
Trail of Tears
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Writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" -- the route their Cherokee ancestors took when expelled from their own land...
I'm In Charge Now
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Tye Thomas was only 21 when he was elected mayor of Gun Barrel City, TX, the youngest elected official in the town's history. At 22,...
Lost in Translation
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In this show, the story of how Colin Pine, a 5' 9" East Asian language specialist who couldn't make his high school basketball team, ended...
Perfect Evidence
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After a decade in which DNA evidence has freed over 100 people nationwide, it's become clear that DNA evidence isn't just proving wrongdoing by criminals,...
The Other Man
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Stories about what happens when a new guy comes on the scene, and changes the way everyone who was already there relates to each other.
Regime Change
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Sure, John Kerry got in trouble for using the phrase, but we have no fear. Because we know that regime change, like charity, begins at...
The Balloon Goes Up
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As the attack on Iraq begins, we read a soldier's emails about the war so far: "We all just wonder, just like the people back...
Say Anything
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Does talking about it really help? Stories where it does, and stories where it doesn't, including Michael Bernard Loggins, who tried to battle his fears...
