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January 01, 1990 - November 26, 2012 + This American Life
D.I.Y.
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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man, Collin Warner, out of prison, his friend, Carl King, takes on the case himself. He becomes...
Reunited (and It Feels So Good)
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Stories about getting back together with your parent, your spouse, your ... Brahmin bull. When Ralph and Sandra's pet bull Chance died, science brought him...
It's Never Over
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Jon Ronson goes to his high school reunion to try to get to the bottom of why his schoolmates threw him into a lake twenty...
Father's Day
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For Father's Day, stories about fathers going out of their way to protect their kids, and kids going out of their way to protect their...
Julia Sweeney
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When comedienne Julia Sweeney and her brother both got cancer, she decided to tell the story the best way she knew how: in a comedy...
Them
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Several years ago, before most of us paid much attention to the name Osama bin Laden, Reporter Jon Ronson spent a year following around a...
Cringe
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Stories that make us cringe. And an investigation into just what, exactly, makes some stories capable of forcing this physical reaction out of us when...
Parental Guidance Suggested
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Stories where kids actually want their parents to look out for them. When Gene Cheek was twelve, his mom was forced to make an impossible...
How We Talked Back Then
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In this show we return to two radio programs originally broadcast in 1996 and 1997. In one show, listeners came onstage with their letters, which...
Lockup
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Over two decades ago, not long after he got out of Texas prison for robbery, Ray Hill got a job at his local public radio...
Allure of Crime
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We think of crime as a kind of monolithic, menacing presence. But there are many kinds of crimes, and many kinds of criminals. Through our...
Fake I.D.
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Stories of people traveling under fake papers, false identities, not for power or personal gain, but for their own deeper personal reasons. A woman goes...
Neighbors
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When he was just a kid, Found Magazine's Davy Rothbart and his family visited the most famous neighbor in America --- Mr. Rogers --- at...
Mind Games
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An improv group decides that members of an unknown band playing their first New York gig ought to think they're a smash hit. So they...
Superpowers
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We answer the following questions about superpowers. Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better, flight or...
