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January 01, 1990 - November 17, 2012 + This American Life
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.
Away From Home
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A 26-year-old who grew up in Los Angeles gets deported to his parents' home country of El Salvador, a country he has not seen since...
Advice
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A program taped in Seattle (thanks to public radio station KUOW) and at HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen before live audiences. Stories...
I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort of
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The various ways of being a woman. David Sedaris writes about his sister Amy, and how she refuses to act like a pretty girl,...
Four Corners
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There's a tourist monument called Four Corners, where Arizona,
Colorado, Utah and New Mexico meet. In this episode, we try to tell the
story of life in...
High Cost of Living
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Jack Hitt on a moment when living is harder than dying. And other stories.
Monogamy
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In what will likely be the wake of the impeachment hearings, we re-run a show we first broadcast in the opening weeks of the...
Valentine's Day '99
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For Valentine's Day, stories of impossible love, love that announces itself in situations and places where it's not expected or easy.
20th Century Man
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The story of a man who was a preacher-in-training in the 1940's, a movie actor and beat generation writer in the 50's, a man in...
Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
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A visit to a historical site where people try to re-live the experience of being African American slaves. A member of the staff talks...
