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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A 22-year-old republican drives to Washington for his first job on capitol hill, with over 30 ties. Border patrol agents dream of catching and not ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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When you’re the only one who can see something, sometimes it feels like you’re in on a special secret. The hard part is getting anyone to believe y...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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We’ve fought two wars since 9/11. We got help from tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans—some were targeted or killed, because they helped us. We...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we have stories of people deciding to take on some very big fears. A prisoner who hasn't talked to anyone in years comes up with a bold p...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories from people who want something desperately—for Christmas or otherwise—and then have their wishes fulfilled. Or do they?

  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Samantha Broun talks to cops, politicians, inmates, and family closest to the crime that changed policy 20 years ago for inmates serving life sente...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who decide to rethink the way they’ve been doing things... or try to get others to do that. Including the story of a veteran who ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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When Jesse first started getting letters from Pamala, he couldn’t believe his luck. He'd been waiting all his life to fall in love—and then he star...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Josh's mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much. His brother got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't lived with them since he was ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00