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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Our brain is what makes it possible for us to get anything done. Except when it fails. Gets in our way. Play tricks on us. We have the remarkable s...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, stories of people who are in put into positions they’re completely unqualified to handle … but who try to make it work anyway. Including...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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This week, stories of people who are feeling the ground shift underneath them when people they are close to change. Including conservative radio ho...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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We take the stately laws of physics—laws which mathematicians and scientists have spent centuries discovering and verifying—and apply them to the r...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • 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 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people climbing to be number one. How do they do it? What is the fundamental difference between us and them?

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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No Christmas can ever be as good as the ones you had as a kid. But this week we bring the joy, the spontaneity, the sense that anything can happen ...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Sure, there's a crude message that propaganda is trying to get across. But like poetry, when you know how to read it, propaganda contains lots of m...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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For Frank Sinatra's 100th Birthday: stories, tributes, and attempts to understand the Chairman of the Board. An updated version of an episode ori...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Home movies are often all the same—kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties—so why do we make and watch so many of them? Maybe i...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2015
  • Length: 59:00