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January 01, 1990 - November 20, 2012 + This American Life
Hospital Diplomacy
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In the hospital, we give up our normal schedule and sleep patterns; we give up our normal food and clothing; we're in a...
Twentieth Century Man
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A program for the end ...
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
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A special Christmas edition of our show, with stories about...
A Teenager's Guide to God
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It's an odd fact of religious life in America that in ...
Urban Nature
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We usually believe that our dominion over nature is thorough and near-complete. But sometimes it becomes clear that there are some chinks the...
Poultry '99
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For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, fowl of all types, and...
Other People's Mail
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When you read other people's mail, you can't help but try to fill in between the lines. You try to decipher the stories of the...
Death in the Family
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One reason we tell stories is to explain to ourselves things that cannot, in the end, always be explained. When someone we're close...
Sentencing
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Changes in U.S. sentencing laws over the last two decades have led to a doubling of the prison population. We meet some...
Barbara
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The story of a woman trying to get two of her children through their senior year of high school.
Invisible Worlds
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A man who listens in on all the police dispatcher messages, cellular phone conversations and other electromagnetic waves that fill the air around us...
The Book that Changed Your Life
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Stories of people who believe a book changed their life. It's a romantic notion, and one reason we believe it is because we...
Ghosts of Elections Past
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As we head into Presidential primary season, This American Life reruns the ...
The Real Thing
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The Real Thing, stories of people drawn to some idea, some picture, some "thing" that they just want to be. How some people...
You Are Here
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Stories of people trying to figure out where they are in the world - in the most literal and least literal ways possible. One...
