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This American Life

Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising pl... Read more

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692: The Show of Delights

692: The Show of Delights

In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely... Read more

4 Jun 2023

1hr 4mins

Ranked #2

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800: Jane Doe

800: Jane Doe

Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who stepped forward and went public wit... Read more

28 May 2023

1hr 15mins

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508: Superpowers

508: Superpowers

We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superh... Read more

21 May 2023

59mins

Ranked #4

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799: The Lives of Others

799: The Lives of Others

Looping thoughts about people you barely know, or don't know at all. Prologue: We get a tip that an entire town is consu... Read more

14 May 2023

1hr 5mins

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798: Leaving the Fold

798: Leaving the Fold

A week after Jerry Springer’s death, we go back to a story we first broadcast years ago, about a side of Springer most p... Read more

7 May 2023

1hr 3mins

Ranked #6

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797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

797: What I Was Thinking As We Were Sinking

It's funny the things that go through your head during a disaster.Prologue: Host Ira Glass has fallen off his bike a num... Read more

23 Apr 2023

1hr 2mins

Ranked #7

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796: What Lies Beneath

796: What Lies Beneath

Summoning up stuff that’s usually hidden down deep.Prologue: A beloved drawing goes missing from Mr. Ablao’s third grade... Read more

16 Apr 2023

1hr 2mins

Ranked #8

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795: Nine Months Later

795: Nine Months Later

It’s been nine months since Roe v. Wade was overturned. We talk to people who wanted abortions right when the laws were ... Read more

9 Apr 2023

1hr 3mins

Ranked #9

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794: So Close and Yet So Far

794: So Close and Yet So Far

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

26 Mar 2023

1hr 3mins

Ranked #10

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793: The Problem with Ghosts

793: The Problem with Ghosts

The ghosts that visit us, the ghosts that never do, and the ghosts that walk among us.Prologue: Chaunte Vaughn’s mother ... Read more

12 Mar 2023

1hr 3mins

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