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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People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Kids feeling the pressure and hype to make their final year of high school as good as the movies.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2024
  • Length: :00
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Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of t...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The one animal we can’t seem to live without - even when we really really want to.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreak, the lives they change.

  • Added: Aug 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?

  • Added: Aug 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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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