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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Exactly how incompetent you are. What your ex’s best friend really thinks of you. The approximate time that you will die. Some things in life are b...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Words mean things, but some words are especially meaningful -- whether in a survival manual, a song lyric, or a slur.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Many Americans have dreamy and romantic ideas about Paris, notions which probably trace back to the 1920s vision of Paris created by the expatriate...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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People go on missions to save young girls from danger. But sometimes they get so caught up in the mission that it overshadows the girl herself.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This country is crawling in presidential candidates right now and they're bumping into each other in Des Moines and yelling over each other in Miam...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is v...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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People coming face to face with unfiltered versions of themselves and what that tells them about who they are.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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A security guard at the airport notices something going wrong on the tarmac, and takes it upon herself to fix it. It’s way harder than she expects....

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Adults telling kids who they are, and kids wondering - are they right? Note: This episode was previously titled "Better Than You Know Yourself"

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:00