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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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
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People around the country talking about the coming four years. Some of them exalted, some of them, as President Obama said Wednesday, "less so."

  • Added: Nov 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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A story about Hillary Clinton that offers a different picture than what we’ve been hearing from both sides during this campaign. And some funny stu...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Right now a lot of Republicans feel like they don’t recognize their own party. This week we try to get inside their heads. In one story, a Minneso...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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What do you do when someone sees everything completely opposite of you? Blue is yellow. Up is down. Fact is fiction. This week, Ira confronts an un...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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A journalist named Meron Estefanos gets a disturbing tip. She's given a phone number that supposedly belongs to a group of refugees being held host...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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San Francisco’s Spider-Man burglar was remarkable. He dropped into buildings from skylights, leapt ten feet from one building to another. But of co...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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A story about someone who's desperately trying – against long odds – to make it to the United States and become an American. Abdi is a Somali refug...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, stories about what people say when they're in a big, final moment with someone they care deeply about. Including a story about an unusua...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there'...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:00