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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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


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We all love to travel to different places, but not many of us like the stressful, banal process of the journey. This week, stories about people get...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we ask: who thought that would be a good for a kid? Neil Drumming looks back at a toy he loved that, in retrospect, probably wouldn’t lov...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about mysteries that exist in relationships we thought couldn't possibly surprise us, the strangeness of putting our wants on the line with...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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A black comedian was the spiritual leader of a group of guys he advised on how to get women. At the center of his philosophy: no masturbation. Then...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Words can seem so puny and ineffective sometimes. On this show, we have stories in which ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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If you’ve applied to college in the US, you might remember an essay question like Essay B. Ten years ago, on Texas college applications, Essay B as...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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A brand new This American Life fundraiser show for Fall 2017 pledge, composed of four segments: three recent favorite stories, plus a new short mod...

Bought by KJZZ, NET Radio (Nebraska), High Plains Public Radio, KJZZ, South Carolina Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 45:34
  • Purchases: 133
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Betsy DeVos's ideas for education are so divisive that Vice President Mike Pence had to cast a historic tie-breaker vote to secure her confirmation...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He le...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 59:00