
10 episodes

This American Life WBEZ
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- Personal Journals
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4.6 • 70.5K Ratings
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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.
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694: Get Back to Where You Once Belonged
People looking everywhere to find a place—any place—where, for once, they don't have to be the odd man out.
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729: Making the Cut
There's always someone whose job it is to decide if you measure up.
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692: The Show of Delights
In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.
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728: Lights, Camera, Christmas!
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
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
To commemorate our show’s 25th year, we have a program about people who were born the year our show went on the air.
Customer Reviews
Touching & Funny
Wonderful story telling that made us laugh and made two of us cry...not telling which two 🙏
Dive deep for the great stuff
Many of the older episodes are fantastic, moving, thoughtful and touching. But over the past few years the new episodes have gotten extremely political (and often an echo chamber, with little to no diversity in political ideology). Plus there are frequent reruns. If you are looking for a great show, scroll back a few years.
Awesome!
One of my favorite podcasts. Every episode is so interesting.