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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34 Pieces

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Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about people being so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, but who are also a million miles apart.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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A new pledge show for Spring 2023, including brand new modules featuring Ira Glass and Snap Judgment Host Glynn Washington

Bought by Michigan Radio, KJZZ, KUAC, Colorado Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 39:48
  • Purchases: 86
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People sizing up homes, jobs, and countries that don't quite fit anymore - and deciding whether not not to break their own hearts and leave them.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Exactly how much are the animals that live in our homes caught up in our everyday family dynamics?

  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jon...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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When it comes to finding a life parter, there are two opposing schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about people feeling lost and trying to figure out how to move ahead: two brothers take a doomed road trip through Mexico and a couple from...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00