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January 01, 1990 - November 20, 2012 + This American Life
You Gonna Eat That?
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Three stories about families and everything you can learn about them at the kitchen table. This show includes a beautiful new documentary from Jay Allison's...
Poultry Slam -98
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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...
Windfall
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What gobs of money can do to your life. Alix Spiegel visits a Minnesota tribe who've built a casino and are ...
Blame It on Art
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The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And what's so great about art. David Sedaris tells the story of his shortlived...
Ladies and Germs
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Germs, and the people who become obsessed with them. Includes stories by Hanna Rosin and NPR's Frank Browning.
Adventures in the Simple Life
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Two brothers set out with a friend to cross America on horseback. They take a tape recorder with them, to make a kind of audio...
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...
