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January 01, 1990 - October 14, 2012 + This American Life
Truth and Lies at Age Ten
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When he was ten years old, Dan Gediman was cast in the public TV show "Zoom." Then he was cut from the cast. So he...
Tales From the Net
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Are people having experiences on the Internet they wouldn't have anywhere else? This American Life -invited listeners to help answer that question, and several hundred...
Two Worlds
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This show is built around a story by a reporter named Rich Robinson. His father's black, his mother's white, and they married during the civil...
Scenes from a Transplant
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An unusual and powerful documentary by producer Dan Collison about NPR Reporter Rebecca Perl, about what it means to go through a life-threatening illness.
Niagara Niagara Niagara
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Chicago playwright David Kodeskie heads back to his hometown: Niagara Falls, NY. It's a seedy dump of a town, built on the edge of a...
100th Episode
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This is the 100th episode of This American Life. A radio show about the pleasures of radio. Including a day with one of the consultants...
Throwing the First Punch
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Stories about boxing, and the pleasure of fighting, for men and women.
Death to Wacky
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Filmmaker Errol Morris recently did a smart, lovely, emotionally-affecting documentary called "Fast Cheap and Out of Control." The ad campaign for the film tried to...
Pinned in History
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A Vietnam vet haunted by a very interesting moral dilemma ... and a survivor of the McCarthy era who faced down his own moral quandary...
Monogamy and Its Discontents
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Adultery and monogamy and what we're supposed to think of things like Roy Romer's "arrangement" with his wife, and the Clinton's marriage.
Escape the Box
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A Mexican-American girl who says her immigrant mom wants her to live in a box, never go to college, never make anything of herself. "I'm...
Best of This American Life
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Tune in for some of the best of "This American Life" from the last six months during KCRW's on-air subscription drive which runs Friday, January...
Sibling Rivalry
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The meanest thing your brother or sister ever did to you - and other stories. Writers Donald Antrum, Sandra Tsing Loh and others.
How to Take Money from Strangers
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Three stories of how to get money from strangers: one about someone who takes money from strangers on the street, one about someone who gets...
Letters
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Ordinary people read their mail onstage: letters they received, letters they sent, and letters they found. They include a young person's brassy letter trying to...
