This American Life

GroupAccount image
  • Location: New York,

--> Head here to subscribe to This American Life on PRX and get details. <--

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.

Series

Series image
0 Pieces

Fundraiser for Public Radio stations that air This American Life

Series image
511 Pieces

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

Learn more about the radio show or find details about This American Life on PRX below.

To set up your subscription, login to PRX and hit Subscribe on the right of this page (prx.org/thisamericanlife). If you don't know your login or need any help, contact PRX. If you need to create a username for yourself, sign up here.

For questions about the show or fees, contact Marge Ostroushko.

Caption: PRX default Series image
34 Pieces

Stations airing This American Life can download generic promos and fundraising material for air. This is specials and generic content only - not the weekly episodes. Download help prxhelp@prx.org


Pieces

Piece image
Yes, you've heard about the family separations, you've heard about the travel ban. But there are dozens of ways the administration is cracking down...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong—including one man's mission to rescue two kids who were kidnapped ...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
Students all over are starting college this month, and some of them still have a nagging question: what, exactly, got me in? An admissions officer ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
An athlete prepares to leave home for a place he's never seen. An astronaut goes where no one has gone. On this week's show, stories of people who ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which i...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell. (Updated version of an episode from 2...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
Just a few years before he got the internship at NPR that started him in radio, our host Ira Glass had another career. He performed magic at childr...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
Dispatches from a government agency in its tumultuous teenage years.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
Piece image
A young preacher opens a new church. A new restaurant reopens old wounds. This week, stories of people trying to build something that will last.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 59:00