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This American Life

 

Built around the innovative vision of Ira Glass, this program documents and describes contemporary America. Using radio monologues, mini-documentaries, “found tape,” and unusual music, it is radio storytelling at its best.

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Saturday, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
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790: You're It

January 29, 2023

Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.
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789: The Runaround

January 22, 2023

People being dodged, delayed, and evaded—and what they do to put an end to it.
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174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones

January 15, 2023

They mean something, whether we want them to or not.
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788: Half-Baked Stories About My Dead Mom

January 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. These written stories are interspersed with off-the-cuff stories he tells host Ira Glass. 
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787: Baby's First Christmas

December 25, 2022

People experiencing Christmas in brand new ways, giving the holiday even more meaning.
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786: It's a Game Show!

December 4, 2022

Something we’ve never done before: true stories told in the form of a game show.
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785: Through the Looking Glass

November 27, 2022

People trying to coax each other across the line, from one side to the other.
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784: Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map

November 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.
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783: Kids These Days

October 30, 2022

We hear from kids who are dealing with some of the country’s most contentious debates. Debates that are supposedly about them.
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782: Family Dig

October 16, 2022

Two people go on excavations of their families’ pasts. Including the first episode of the new podcast, “We Were Three,” hosted by our longtime producer, Nancy Updike, and from Serial Productions and The New York Times.
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