This American Life

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This American Life
 is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.1 million listeners. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. From 2006-2008, we produced a television version of This American Life on the Showtime network, which won three Emmys. We're also the co-producers, with NPR News, of the economics podcast and blog Planet Money. And a half dozen stories from the radio show are being developed into films.

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This American Life is a weekly public radio show produced by Chicago Public Media and broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners each week. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with around one million people downloading each week. This American Life is distributed independently with WBEZ, and is available to stations weekly via the PRX Exchange broadcast distribution technology

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People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.

  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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A man finds himself thrust into a new world he didn’t necessarily ask to visit. He takes a look around.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, it upended daily life in all kinds of unexpected ways - for people in Ukraine, and people very very far fr...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In this moment when autocrats and almost-autocrats are getting bolder and more powerful, we bring you two stories of resistance, from Hungary and R...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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People trying to jump in and solve other people’s problems, putting themselves directly in the gap between the problem and the solution.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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It is a peculiar feeling to know with certainty that something big is about to happen to you. This week we watch people go right up to the edge of ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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An new This American Life pledge show for Spring 2022. Does not pitch a premium. There's also a new standalone module about paywalls. Good luck on ...

Bought by Michigan Radio, KRCB 104.9, Capital Public Radio, KENW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
  • Purchases: 84
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A new pledge show that pitches our brand new T-shirt premium

Bought by Prairie Public, KOSU, WBHM, WBST, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 41:03
  • Purchases: 12