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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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635: Chip in My Brain

February 28, 2021

A boy who can’t dribble gets a coach, a new best friend, and something to believe in.
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732: Secrets

February 21, 2021

Why we tell them, and what happens after we do.
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731: What Lies Beneath

February 14, 2021

Stories of people summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.
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670: Beware the Jabberwock

February 7, 2021

Stories from the upside-down world where conspiracy theorists dwell.
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730: The Empty Chair

January 24, 2021

Things we’ve lost in the past year — since the first American coronavirus case — that we haven’t talked about so much. Gossip. The chance to make new friends. And much larger stuff.
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729: Making the Cut

January 10, 2021

There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
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728: Lights, Camera, Christmas!

December 27, 2020

This holiday season, we bring you a show filled with stories of people going to great lengths to throw a special Christmas for their families.
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727: Boulder v. Hill

December 20, 2020

What the day-to-day business of saving the world looks like. We visit with one group of people who are trying to rescue us from something very large, and another group trying to rescue us from something very small.
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726: Twenty-Five

December 13, 2020

To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
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725: Turkey in a Face Mask

November 29, 2020

For Thanksgiving weekend, stories about food, and people who set out on very particular missions with food. 
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