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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Fundraiser for Public Radio stations that air This American Life

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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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Stories of people who believe there is always a way. And also those who don’t.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of women in unsettling situations. When they try to explain what’s wrong, they’re told that they don’t understand—that there’s nothing uns...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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EVERGREEN VERSION of This American Life episode #436: The Psychopath Test. Description: Recently we heard about this test that could determine if...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who tell a lie and then believe the lie more than anyone else does. In other words: Stories about people pulling hoaxes... on the...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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There’s no rulebook on how to handle a school shooting. And no real way to prepare for one. This week, people take what they’ve learned from these ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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Making big decisions about other people's lives can feel pretty awful. Zoe Chase followed Senator Jeff Flake as he decided to force the Senate to d...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones we decided to ma...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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A bunch of teenagers go missing from a town in Long Island. For months, the police treat them as runaways, ignoring the kids' parents, who keep try...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:59
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A new fundraising episode of This American Life for Fall 2018. The show includes an Evergreen module "The Lion King" that can be dropped in anywher...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Prairie Public, WBEZ, KJZZ, KRPS and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 41:34
  • Purchases: 111