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January 01, 1990 - December 06, 2012 + This American Life
My Two Cents
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A machine was supposed to revolutionize the beverage business. It dispensed chilled off-brand soda into reusable two-liter bottles for a fraction of the cost of...
Miracle Cures
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This week on This American Life, a deaf woman goes to Brazil to ask John of God for her hearing back, and brings her skeptical...
The Facts Don't Matter
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In 1942, George Dasch led a team of eight Nazi saboteurs who landed on the beach on Long Island with plans to blow up factories...
Simulated Worlds
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Simulated worlds, Civil war reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle and other re-created worlds that thrive all across...
Guns
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Stories about guns, and the special hold they have on the American imagination.
The Fix Is In
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Yes, airline prices are always the same no matter which airline you call; in Presidential elections you always feel like you're choosing between the lesser...
Selections from Crimebusters + Crossed Wires
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Some of the many brilliant pieces from the award-winning PRI radio show with host Ira Glass featuring humorist David Sedaris, author Sarah Vowell and others.
30 Acts in 60 Minutes
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instead of the regular "each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme" business, we throw all that...
Recordings for Someone
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Every story in this show is built out of a recording that one person has made for another person, usually somebody they're close to. A...
Middlemen
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Stories of people caught in the middle. A young man gets a job transcribing and reading TTY calls for deaf people and their hearing friends...
This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
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Oh, they shouldn't have! Two grown sons show up on their mother's doorstep bearing a gift only a mother could love. Also the story of...
Poultry Slam
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As we near the highest poultry consumption time of year - the weeks between Christmas and Thanksgiving - we hear stories of chickens, turkeys, ducks,...
Brother's Keepers
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In his ongoing effort to write his own version of the Bible, Jonathan Goldstein retells the story of Cain and Abel. Finally we hear Cain's...
The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice
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A man gets himself elected to the state legislature to try and make the world a better place, but finds that personal principles and representative...
Like It or Not
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Some stories we make happen, others happen to us. Sometimes we have no choice, but other times we just can't seem to act, even when...
