109: NOTES ON CAMP 08.28.1998
Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program, we attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding between camp people and non-camp people.
175: BABYSITTING 01.05.2001
Stories of babysitters, and what goes on while mom and dad are away that mom and dad never find out about.
206: SOMEWHERE IN THE ARABIAN SEA 03.01.2002
Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that's supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Only a few dozen people on board actually fly F-18s and F-14s. It takes the rest...
218: ACT V 08.09.2002
We devote this entire episode to one story: Over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act—Act V—of Hamlet.
241: 20 ACTS IN 60 MINUTES 07.11.2003
Instead of the usual "each week we choose a theme, and bring you 3 or 4 stories on that theme" business, we throw all that away and bring you 20 stories—yes, 20—in 60 minutes.
355: THE GIANT POOL OF MONEY 05.09.2008
A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people...
360: SWITCHED AT BIRTH 07.25.2008
On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families.
27: THE CRUELTY OF CHILDREN 06.21.1996
Stories about kids being mean to each other.
38: SIMULATED WORLDS 10.11.1996
Simulated worlds, Civil war reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America. (4 minutes)
46: SISSIES 12.13.1996
Though being gay no longer has much of a stigma in some parts of the country, being a sissy still does — even among gay men. In this show we have a number of surprising and unusual stories of sissies, their families, and why people still get so...
61: FIASCO! 04.25.1997
Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong. When you leave the normal realm of human error, fumble, mishap, and mistake and enter the territory of really huge breakdowns. Fiascos. Things go so awry that normal social order collapses. This week's...
77: PRAY 09.26.1997
Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other?
84: HAROLD 11.21.1997
A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, told two decades after his death. Washington died on November 25, 1987.
88: NUMBERS 01.02.1998
Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that should not be quantified.
90: TELEPHONE 01.16.1998
Stories of who we are on the phone, of things we learn on the phone, and of things that happen on the phone that don't happen anywhere else.
103: SCENES FROM A TRANSPLANT 05.29.1998
An NPR reporter leaves her three-year-old son and heads to Omaha—for cancer treatment—a last chance to save her life. After years of covering stories about medicine, Rebecca Perl enters the hospital as a patient. She moves from the world of healthy...
118: WHAT YOU LOOKIN' AT? 12.18.1998
Stories about seeing and being seen. Taped before a live audience in Town Hall in New York City in December 1998, this was a co-production with WNYC New York, featuring live music by the pop band They Might Be Giants and the This American Life...
119: LOCKUP 01.08.1999
With the number of prisoners in the United States rising rapidly, we present stories of their lives and the lives of their families and children.
154: IN DOG WE TRUST 03.10.2000
Stories of dogs and cats and other animals that live in our homes. Exactly how much are they caught up in everyday family dynamics? We answer this question and others.
164: CRIME SCENE 07.07.2000
Every crime scene hides a story. In this week's show, we hear about crime scenes and the stories they tell.
178: SUPERPOWERS 02.23.2001
We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask.) Chris ware's comic mentioned in the episode...
181: THE FRIENDLY MAN 04.06.2001
A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling stories sound like nothing else on the radio.
186: PROM 06.08.2001
While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it. When they emerged from the dance, they discovered what had happened, and in the weeks that followed, they...
192: MEET THE PROS 08.31.2001
The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity—aided only by his own hard work, a sneaker commercial, and mad handles. And other stories of amateurs hurtling themselves at the pros whose jobs they covet.
199: HOUSE ON LOON LAKE 11.16.2001
Our entire show this week is one long story, sort of a real-life Hardy Boys mystery. More than most of our shows, this one lends itself to a Hollywood-style tagline. Perhaps: "You Might Break In...But You'll Never Forget." Or "Dead Letters Tell No...
203: RECORDINGS FOR SOMEONE 01.11.2002
All the stories in this week's show center on personal recordings that one person made for just one other person.
204: 81 WORDS 01.18.2002
The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
220: TESTOSTERONE 08.30.2002
Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.
233: STARTING FROM SCRATCH 03.07.2003
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
246: MY PEN PAL 09.12.2003
Stories of very unusual pen pals, people whose relationship could not exist without the help of the postal service.
248: LIKE IT OR NOT 10.24.2003
Some stories we make happen, others happen to us. Extremes from the latter category, where people let things happen to them and don't act, even when maybe they should. David Rakoff guest hosts.
252: POULTRY SLAM 2003 11.28.2003
During the period of the year with the highest turkey consumption, we bring you an annual This American Life tradition: Stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds, real and imagined, and their mysterious hold over us.
253: THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE 12.05.2003
Stories from faraway, hard-to-get-to places, where all rules are off, nefarious things happen because no one's looking, and there's no one to appeal to.
268: MY EXPERIMENTAL PHASE 06.25.2004
Three stories about people who decide to try out a new life—the kind of life their parents never wanted for them.
275: TWO STEPS BACK 10.15.2004
Ten years ago, when he was still a reporter for NPR's All Things Considered, host Ira Glass did a year-long series on a Chicago public school where things were getting better. Test scores were rising.
282: DIY 02.11.2005
After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He learns to read court records, he tracks down hard-to-find witnesses, he gets the real murderer to come...
290: GODLESS AMERICA 06.03.2005
At a time when House Majority Leader Tom Delay calls for enacting a "Biblical world view" in government, when Christians are asserting their ideals in the selection of judges, in public school science classes and elsewhere, This American Life spends...
299: BACK FROM THE DEAD 10.07.2005
Stories about people and places that have come back to life after everything seemed lost.
304: HERETICS 12.16.2005
The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he'd worked for over his entire life.
322: SHOUTING ACROSS THE DIVIDE 12.15.2006
A Muslim woman persuades her husband that their family would be happier if they left the West Bank and moved to America. They do, and things are good...until September 11. After that, the elementary school their daughter goes to begins using a...
339: BREAK-UP 08.24.2007
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.
352: THE GHOST OF BOBBY DUNBAR 03.14.2008
In 1912 a four year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi. (The picture at left was taken just days later.)
361: FEAR OF SLEEP 08.08.2008
Mike Birbiglia got used to strange things happening to him when he slept—until something happened that almost killed him. Mike's story is included in his new book Sleepwalk With Me. This and other reasons to fear sleep, including bedbugs, "The...
381: TURNCOAT 05.22.2009
A well-known activist—an anarchic, revolutionary activist—is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor is, it's true. How Brandon Darby transformed from cop-hater to federal witness. Plus, a story by Etgar...
388: REST STOP 09.04.2009
Nine radio producers. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway. In this show, we'll bring you stories of people who are just passing through, and people who are at the rest stop every day—working. One of them has worked there since 1969...
396: #1 PARTY SCHOOL 12.18.2009
This year, The Princeton Review named Penn State the #1 Party School in America. It's a rotating crown—last year it was University of Florida, before that it was West Virginia University. So we wondered: what's it like to be at the country's top...
403: NUMMI 03.26.2010
A car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and...
405: INSIDE JOB 04.09.2010
For seven months a team of investigative journalists from ProPublica looked into a story for us, the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us.
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