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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Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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They mean something, whether we want them to or not.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture his mother, but it’s hard, he says, because she’s like Maria in West Side Story and she’...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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San Francisco’s Spider-Man burglar was remarkable. He dropped into buildings from skylights, leapt 10 feet from one roof to another. But mostly, hi...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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People go looking for the ghost in the machine. They turn to mechanical apparatuses of all sorts to find people they lost – people they can’t find ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
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People have questions. We invent games to find out the answers.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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People deciding to pass from one world into another.

  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00