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

Genres:

Storytelling

Public Radio

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

Listen on a live station

KALW

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Episodes

794: So Close and Yet So Far

3/26/2023

People so close to each other, in extremely intimate situations, who are also a million miles apart.

Duration:01:03:43

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