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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This week, stories about people trying their best to turn themselves into something else—like a badger. Or a professional comedian, in a language t...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2016
  • 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: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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What do you do when you're thrown into a situation you’re not prepared for? And while you’re flailing around—what happens to the people who depend ...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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What do you get when you take a P.I. firm, then add in a bunch of sexy soccer moms, official sponsorship from Glock, a lying boss, and delusions of...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Summer is a time when change seems more possible than ever. But is that really how it happens? Can people actually reinvent themselves in the warme...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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We return to Greece with stories of people trying to move on with their lives in whatever way they can. We meet a couple trying who fell in love ev...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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A bunch of us from our show went to refugee camps all over Greece. We found people falling in love, kids mad at their parents for dragging them to ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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A captain’s log is a simple thing: the date, the time, maybe the weather — and the current status of a long journey. You wouldn’t know from the cry...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people trying to make sure they get what they paid for, from political change to bedroom slippers. We follow a donor as he vets presiden...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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There are all sorts of situations in which we suspect the fix is in, but we almost never find out for certain. On today's show, for once, we find o...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00