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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + This American Life
Do-Gooders
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Kenny and Jackie Wharton were kids in the tiny town of Canalou Missouri, off of old Highway 61. They moved away for 40 years, but...
Pimp Anthropology
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A former pimp tells how he and three childhood friends became pimps in the 1970's in Oakland, California. He explains all...
I Didn't Ask to Be Born
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Two stories that are worst case scenarios for any parent. In each story, when you take apart what happened and how it happened, it's hard...
Hoaxing Yourself
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Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does. In other words: stories about...
Office Politics
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Just as in real politics, office politics comes in all forms. In this show, office democracies, office oligarchies, office dictatorships, and loosely affiliated office federations....
Valentine's Day
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Stories of couples that all take place decades after the moment their eyes first met.
Winter Subscription Drive 2002, Week 2
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Winter Subscription Drive 2002, Week 1
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The Three Kinds of Deception
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Some are born liars, some achieve lying and some have lying thrust upon them. In this program, three stories, one from each category of deception....
Babysitting
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Stories of babysitters, and what goes on while mom and dad are away that mom and dad never find out about.
Faith
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Pictured above is the largest cross in the Western hemisphere. It stands 190 feet tall, along a lonely stretch of I-40, near Groom, Texas. It's...
Hearts and Minds
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Of all the types of modern war to win, perhaps the toughest is the propaganda war. We bring you stories from various...
Pray
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Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other? We ask that question while visiting Colorado Springs, CO, where Pastor Ted Haggard at...
Rashomon
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Current events, told from varying perspectives. A Palestinian teenager explains why she still doesn't believe Muslims could have attacked the World Trade Center and the...
War Stories
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Decades of domestic peace and prosperity have left us unable to imagine what a war might be like. And yet, never in recent history has...
