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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Stories of people making the wrong choice, even though the right one is staring them squarely in the eye. Basketball players making a conscious dec...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about being fat. About embracing it, and feeling ashamed of it. About trying to change, or refusing to. About our obsession with it and ou...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Some information is so big and so complicated that it seems impossible to talk to kids about. This week, stories about the vague and not-so-vague w...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves in way over their heads.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories about mysteries that exist in relationships we thought couldn't possibly surprise us, and the strangeness of putting our wants on the line ...

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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Stories from faraway, hard-to-get-to places, where all rules are off, nefarious things happen because no one's looking, and there's no one to appea...

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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For millennia, people have tried to reach a spiritual promised land by fasting. Jesus did it. The Buddha did it. Monks and saints and new age gurus...

  • Added: May 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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It’s nice to belong, to feel connected to others. But what happens when you realize that your fundamental beliefs don’t line up with the people you...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it. Whe...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
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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