Podcast

This American Life

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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1:00:06
Published: Sun Apr 30 2023
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Description

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. In 2004, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather's kidnapping, a secret whose revelation would divide her own family, bring redemption to another, and become the answer to a third family's century-old prayer.

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This American Life
1:02:59
Published: Sun Apr 23 2023
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Description

It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.

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This American Life
1:02:05
Published: Sun Apr 16 2023
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Description

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.

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This American Life
1:03:07
Published: Sun Apr 09 2023
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Description

It’s been nine months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were changing in their states. They had to wait for appointments, for money to travel or abortion pills. And during that waiting, a lot of interesting things happened. We see how much life has changed, nine months later.

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This American Life
1:06:19
Published: Sun Apr 02 2023
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Description

Three people, and one animal, who know the path their lives will take until, suddenly, they don’t.

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This American Life
1:03:43
Published: Sun Mar 26 2023
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Description

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

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This American Life
1:03:18
Published: Sun Mar 12 2023
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Description

The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.

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This American Life
1:01:50
Published: Sun Mar 05 2023
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Description

People staring down that hardest of questions: Is now the time? To leave?

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This American Life
56:34
Published: Sun Feb 12 2023
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Description

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?

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This American Life
59:50
Published: Sun Jan 29 2023
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Description

Sometimes you raise your hand. Other times you’re just the only one left.

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This American Life