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.
550: Three Miles
There’s a program that brings together kids from two schools. One school is public and in the country’s...
Listen528: The Radio Drama Episode
Our most ambitious live show ever! We pulled together a massive team of theater pros at the Brooklyn...
Listen778: Me Minus Me
When a fundamental part of yourself changes dramatically, are you still who you thought you were?
Listen102: Road Trip!
With so many songs, movies, and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard to take just a normal...
Listen777: Name. Age. Detail.
Ten people were killed at a grocery store in Buffalo, NY. Their stories, as you’ve never heard them.
Listen625: Essay B
In 1967, the first two Black students were enrolled at an all-white private boarding school in Virginia....
Listen776: I Work Better on Deadline
Stories of people racing against time to solve a huge intractable problem. Will they make it?
Listen109: Notes on Camp
People who love summer camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about...
Listen400: Stories Pitched by Our Parents
We try something harder than anything we've ever tried before, by taking the random ideas that members...
Listen775: The Possum Experiment
An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?
Listen774: The Pink House at the Center of the World
The Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade began with a lawsuit filed by a Mississippi abortion...
Listen583: It’ll Make Sense When You’re Older
Kids do not like being told it’ll make sense when they’re older. They’re pretty sure the grown-ups...
Listen772: The Kids' Table
Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.
Listen771: The Parents Step In
Government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in: parents whose...
Listen638: Rom-Com
The one thing you know for sure when you're watching a romantic comedy is that it's going to turn out...
Listen605: Kid Logic
Kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
Listen770: My Lying Eyes
People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.
Listen769: The Reluctant Explorer
A man finds himself thrust into a new world he didn’t necessarily ask to visit. He takes a look around.
Listen360: Switched at Birth
On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants...
Listen767: Do Not Go Gentle
In this moment when autocrats and almost-autocrats are getting bolder and more powerful, we bring you...
Listen766: Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!
People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems, putting themselves directly in the gap between...
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