This American Life
Chicago Public Media
This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.
Location:
Chicago, IL
Networks:
Chicago Public Media
Description:
This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass, produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards.
Twitter:
@thisamerlife
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Email:
web@thislife.org
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Episodes
654: The Feather Heist
3/19/2023
A flute player breaks into a British museum and makes off with a million dollars worth of dead birds.
Duration:01:05:11
793: The Problem with Ghosts
3/12/2023
The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.
Duration:01:03:18
792: When to Leave
3/5/2023
People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave?
Duration:01:01:50
639: In Dog We Trust
2/26/2023
Exactly how much are the animals that live in our homes caught up in our everyday family dynamics?
Duration:00:59:33
556: Same Bed, Different Dreams
2/19/2023
People who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures.
Duration:01:01:33
791: Math or Magic?
2/12/2023
When it comes to finding love, there seems to be two schools of thought on the best way to go about it. One says, wait for that lightning-strike magic. The other says, make a calculation and choose the best option available. Who has it right?
Duration:00:56:34
542: Wait—Do You Have The Map?
2/5/2023
Feeling lost and trying to figure out how to move ahead.
Duration:01:00:11
790: You're It
1/29/2023
Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.
Duration:00:59:50
789: The Runaround
1/22/2023
People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.
Duration:01:03:02
174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones
1/15/2023
They mean something, whether we want them to or not.
Duration:01:00:08
788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom
1/8/2023
Writer Etgar Keret tries to come up with the stories that capture his late mother, Orna Keret—but it’s hard, he says, because she’s like Maria in West Side Story and she’s also like Thanos from the Avengers. He ends up with a series of very short stories — most just a few paragraphs long — that give glimpses of different sides of her.
Duration:00:59:46
598: My Undesirable Talent
1/1/2023
San Francisco’s Spider-Man burglar was remarkable. He dropped into buildings from skylights, leapt 10 feet from one roof to another. But mostly, his talent got him into trouble. This week, his story, and stories of other undesirable talents.
Duration:01:00:23
787: Baby's First Christmas
12/25/2022
People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.
Duration:00:59:42
757: The Ghost in the Machine
12/18/2022
People use machines to find people they lost.
Duration:01:00:28
402: Save the Day
12/11/2022
Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.
Duration:00:59:54
786: It's a Game Show!
12/4/2022
Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
Duration:01:04:49
785: Through the Looking Glass
11/27/2022
People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
Duration:01:02:40
351: Return to Childhood
11/20/2022
People who try to revisit their childhoods—what they find and what they do not find.
Duration:00:59:52
732: Secrets
11/13/2022
Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.
Duration:00:59:32
784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map
11/6/2022
Not long ago, Republicans in Ohio passed a constitutional amendment to end gerrymandering in the state. And then a funny thing happened. The same Ohio Republicans drew electoral maps that violated their own constitutional amendment. They’ll be using them in this week’s midterm elections. We try to understand how that could happen.
Duration:01:02:01