This American Life
Comedy
Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Comedy
Description:
Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org
Episodes
843: A Little Bit of Power
10/13/2024
So much of the fight for the presidency is coming down to battles for small slices of voters who can help throw swing states to one candidate or another. Abbas Alawieh, a leader in the Uncommitted movement, grapples with how to get his voters the thing they want.
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Duration:00:56:15
842: 51 Days
10/6/2024
Chen Almog-Goldstein was kidnapped by Hamas along with her three youngest children on October 7, 2023. This week, she tells the story of their life as hostages in Gaza.
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Duration:00:58:38
553: Stuck in the Middle
9/29/2024
People caught in limbo, using ingenuity and guile to try to get themselves out.
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Duration:00:59:36
841: My Senior Year
9/22/2024
One kid comes to America as an exchange student and commits herself to the senior year experience.
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Duration:00:58:48
840: How Are You Not Seeing This?
9/15/2024
People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.
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Duration:00:59:39
839: Meet Me at the Fair
9/8/2024
Iowa has three million people and a million come to their State Fair, each with their own goals and dreams for the fair. We hang out with some of them, to see if they get what they hoped for.
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Duration:01:04:21
838: Letters! Actual Letters!
8/18/2024
When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.
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Duration:00:58:43
837: Swim Towards the Shark
8/11/2024
In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?
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Duration:01:05:46
836: The Big Rethink
7/21/2024
People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives — with their sister, their political party, and the nominee for president.
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Duration:00:59:40
835: Children of Dave
6/30/2024
Boen Wang has a theory that a lot of the misery in his life can be traced to a single moment that happened years before he was born. So he makes a pilgrimage to see if he’s right.
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Duration:01:01:10