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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Exactly how incompetent you are. What your ex’s best friend really thinks of you. The approximate time that you will die. Some things in life are b...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, at the suggestion of a 14-year-old listener, we bring you stories from the awkward, confusing, hormonally charged world of middle school...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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The older and wiser we get, the more bewildering our past decisions can seem. This week, people revisit those decisions — and we revisit a story we...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jo...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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At first, it’s super annoying, getting told it’ll make sense when you’re older. Then, when you’re a teenager, hard lessons are learned, despite you...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
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Stories about people in trouble, who look for help in mystifying places. A 15-year-old boy travels more than 1,000 miles, alone, to seek out his he...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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New This American Life pledge show, composed of two recent favorite stories from the show. The first story is broken into two segments. There are t...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 42:04
  • Purchases: 115
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We human beings think we run the world, that we’ve got things under control. And then an animal shows up, and things don’t go as planned. We have s...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, a story about doubt: how it germinated, spread, and eventually took hold of an entire community, with terrible consequences. A collabora...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Forget the easy way. This week, stories about people who come up with very innovative…and unusual...solutions to their problems. Including the stor...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:00