This American Life

Author: This American Life

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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.

48 Episodes

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Cryptic messages on a cell phone and a teeter totter at a construction site: these are clues people found, trying to make sense of a death.

646: The Secret of My Death

2018-05-2001:06:2841

Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories from the heart of heartbreak.

339: Break-Up

2018-05-1301:01:1539

Conservative students don't feel like their ideas are welcome on campus. So they're fighting back. We go to Nebraska, where one skirmish spins out of control.

645: My Effing First Amendment

2018-05-0601:01:1936

Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is very different from what they’re supposed to.

644: Random Acts of History

2018-04-2900:58:3858

The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a rising star in the evangelical movement, who cast aside the idea of hell, and with it everything he'd worked for over his entire life.

304: Heretics

2018-04-2200:59:0545

It’s one thing to weigh pros and cons. But sometimes all you have is con and con. This week, stories of people having to make a choice, when no good options exist.

643: Damned If You Do…

2018-04-1501:00:1145

Before he leaves the Senate for good, Republican Jeff Flake is trying to get a bill passed. He has his work cut out for him, with a Senate that barely brings anything to the floor, a party he feels estranged from, and a president who seems to hate his guts. Producer Zoe Chace hung out with him for four months.

642: The Impossible Dream

2018-04-0801:05:5538

Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father. The answers aren't always what they hope for.

289: Go Ask Your Father

2018-04-0100:59:3553

A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In the beginning, they're full of hope and optimism...and then something turns. Stories of good ideas gone bad.

306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time

2018-03-2500:58:4660

Stories from border walls around the world, where one place ends and another begins. And the strange ecosystems that arise.

641: The Walls

2018-03-1801:11:1258

Sparkle Butt

T Abel I think Courtney is a **** she sits there and cry's about loosing her privilege to educate students yet she shows NO REMORSE for ridiculing a student on her campus who has different political views from her own. Maybe if she had been an educator FIRST and discussed her views about this party in lieu of her actions, she would have more respect. for the record, I consider myself a liberal independent, but I do not condone this behavior. our country is built on the idea of having a political balance. Even though I don't agree with all of their views, I do agree that the younger generation needs more people like katie, fighting for the Republican party. Shame on you Courtney.

May 18th

Comments (114)

Darkersun

So many twists in each act. I love that it kept you on your toes the whole time.

May 24th

Alexander Payne

sounds racist

May 23rd

Linda Nancarrow Grimm

Ear hustle

Mic Kash

Amistad was produced before S.L. I believe.. Good podcast though. Please more!!

May 22nd

tsering wangial

So much onions were cut in the end.

May 21st

Ben Davis

tsering wangial I'm not crying. You're crying!

Jenny Righi

May 20th

Ryan Wiberg

we are not left we are not right we are we. listen to your peers object their views if you don't agree but respect them regardless. We are all in this together for

May 19th

Cj James

🤔

May 17th

Eileen Haller

Michelle Dash

Your "details" on the show explain nothing about what the show is about. It seems more like bragging about the number of listeners

May 13th

Michelle Dash the show is about a lot of things. it's kind of hard to categorize it. personally I find it enjoyable

Alessio Carta

Michelle Dash i don't think they made the description

May 14th

Jordana Fisher

l palomino p l

May 10th

T Abel

Typical intolerant left.

May 9th

wolfthorn

T Abel Right cause putting professors who express discenting views on a watchlist, and having general racist undertones is totally tolerant. Sure.

Louisiana Pats Fan

Maybe just once a liberal can show some restraint and not shouting down opinions of others in their typical vulgar manner

May 8th

Bryan Wolfe

The conference sounds far too much like a Nazi propaganda session. Not that they were advocating Nazi views, rather they sound one step away from outright shooting people who disagree.

Federico Andino

Amazing. Mentor and Tormentor, indeed

May 6th

One of the best episodes ever produced.

May 3rd

Emily Cage

this is also how they are in Israel. Just horrible.

May 2nd

Michael Sumstine

absolutely amazing. As a gay man, now in his early 40s, I grew up in the assembly of God church, and left with resentment 22 years ago. I have known this inclusion message in my entirety for about 4 years now. How refreshing this podcast was. I'm sharing it. thank you.

Apr 27th

Mantu Chakraborty

really good story

Apr 26th

jen

oral roberts is an embarrassment to. the state of Oklahoma , and his family

Apr 23rd