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January 01, 1990 - November 20, 2012 + This American Life
81 Words
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For decades, the entry on "Sexual Deviations" in the official manual of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) contained 81 words. For decades, homosexuality was included...
Classifieds
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In this show we take the classifieds from one Sunday edition of the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the local alternative weekly Chicago Reader,...
Jobs That Take Over Your Life
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This show is about you. You spend too much time at work. You spend too much time thinking about work. And if you don't have...
What Is This Thing?
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This thing called love, that is. For answers we explore the romance novel industry, a 1.5 billion dollar empire run almost entirely by and for...
Allure of the Mean Friend
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What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and...
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...
