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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34 Pieces

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Stories of very small injustices and also one very big one.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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The enduring appeal of connecting dots that probably should not be connected.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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To be, or not to be a pirate? This week, that is the question. Hold fast, mateys! We have stories about both historical and modern-day swashbuckler...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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A new This American Life pledge show for Spring 2019! Four segments totaling 38:07. Plus a 2 1/2 minute module.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, NET Radio (Nebraska), Prairie Public, WBEZ, KJZZ and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 38:07
  • Purchases: 114
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Stories from the upside-down world where conspiracy theorists dwell.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Can love be taught? A family uses a controversial therapy to train their son to love them. And other stories about the hard and sometimes painful w...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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The Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee may have to fight to protect Mueller's investigation and make his report public. Now that they’re in...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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In Schenectady, NY, a school maintenance man named Steve Raucci works his way up the ranks for 30 years, until finally he's in charge of the mainte...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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How the smallest, most thoughtless actions — sometimes as simple as three words — can catch and burn for decades.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Love makes us do crazy things. But usually not this crazy. This week for Valentine's Day we have stories of people going to extremes to find and pu...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 59:00