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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In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?

  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
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We document one day in a Chicago diner called the Golden Apple, starting at 5 a.m. and going until 5 a.m. the next morning. We hear from the waitre...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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What happens when an event changes the way we see the people who are most important to us.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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People ​so close to each other, ​in ​extremely intimate situations​,​ who are also a million miles apart.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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We head to some of the happiest places on earth: amusement parks! Ira Glass takes us behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, where the y...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Boen Wang goes back to a day before he was born. It's a day that changed the course of his family's life.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.

  • Added: Jun 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Forced to make a choice he does not want to make.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Donald Trump has a plan for his second term: retribution. We check in with the people who’ve crossed him to hear how they feel about that.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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People tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.

  • Added: May 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:01