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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Your mother and I have something we want to talk with you about.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning-strike ma...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Sometimes we don’t want to say what’s going on because putting it into words would make it real. At other times, words don’t seem to capture the we...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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A show about people who find themselves in situations that are worse than they thought…and decide to really go with it.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Often we see someone’s situation from the outside and think we know exactly what’s going on. This week we get inside and find out just how much mor...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Instead of the usual "each week we choose a theme, and bring you 3 or 4 stories on that theme" business, we throw all that away and bring you 20 st...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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A major political party in a major swing state bets on a new leader: a total political outsider. How does that work out for them?

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00