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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Fundraiser for Public Radio stations that air This American Life

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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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Our most ambitious live show ever! We pulled together a massive team of theater pros at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House—nearly 50 singe...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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How much of a person has to change before they're no longer who they thought they were?

  • Added: Aug 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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With so many songs, movies, and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard to take just a normal road trip without huge expectations.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Five new This American Life generic promos. You asked and we (finally) answered. Air these any time on your schedule, including local tags.

Bought by WVPE, Michigan Radio, WUSF, KLRE, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 44

  • Added: Aug 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In 1967, the first two Black students were enrolled at an all-white private boarding school in Virginia. The main reason they were there? To benefi...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people racing against time to solve a huge intractable problem. Will they make it?

  • Added: Jul 29, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we att...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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For our 400th show, we try something harder than anything we've ever tried in the previous 399. We take the random ideas that members of our own fa...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?

  • Added: Jul 09, 2022
  • Length: 58:58