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This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #304: Heretics

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:07:15 -0400

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #321: Sink or Swim

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:07:11 -0400

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #226: Reruns

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:07:08 -0400

Stories of people stuck in their own, personal reruns--moments or episodes that they revisit over and over again.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #306: Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:06:54 -0400

A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool its money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In the beginning, they're full of hope and optimism...and then something turns. Stories of good ideas gone bad.

This American Life: #326: Quiz Show

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:06:18 -0400

A quiet, painfully shy man blossoms on a TV game show, and a confident young woman has her high ideals dashed by one. Also, the hardest puzzles in the world and the people who solve them--for fun.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #328: What I Learned from TV

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:06:06 -0400

A show assembled from our 2007 live tour--featuring brand-new stories by Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, and Dan Savage. Stories about what TV can teach us...and how TV lies to us. With music by Mates of State.

This American Life: #245: Allure of the Mean Friend

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:06:01 -0400

What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute; and yet we come back for more. We offer an inquiry into the phenomenon--and perhaps some helpful hints on breaking the cycle.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #335: Big Wide World

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:04:24 -0400

Haider was a teenager in Iraq when the war broke out. And he decided to do one of the least safe things possible: work for foreign media covering the war. Plus, other stories of what happens when you strike out into the world.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #73: Blame It on Art

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:03:57 -0400

The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And also what's great about art.

This American Life: #339: Break-Up

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:03:34 -0400

Stories from the heart of heartbreak: people trying to comprehend their own break-ups and those of others--including writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect post-break-up song.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #121: Twentieth Century Man

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:03:13 -0400

The story of Keith Aldrich, whose life is a case study of the question, "What happens if you're too good at transforming yourself?"

This American Life: This American Life: #314: It's Never Over

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:03:03 -0400

Stories of things that never seem to come to an end.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #110: Mapping

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:02:35 -0400

Five ways of mapping the world: by sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #253: The Middle of Nowhere

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:01:30 -0400

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.

This American Life: #346: Home Alone

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:01:03 -0400

A 79-year-old woman dies in Los Angeles. She's lived alone for decades. No one knows her, or her next of kin. There's a body to be buried, stuff to get rid of. Who takes charge? This and other stories about what happens when people are left alone.

This American Life: This American Life: #326: Quiz Show

Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:12 -0400

A man with social anxiety goes through a transformation, a young woman with high ideals has them dashed, and teams compete to solve some of the hardest puzzles in the world, for fun. The secret life of quiz shows, behind the questions and answers.

This American Life: This American Life: #348: Tough Room

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:35 -0400

Comedy writers at The Onion pitch 700 story ideas a week. 16 make the cut. Also, a man on a mission of peace in a country that has one more slogan for him to push This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #352: The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/~r/talpodcast/~3/252657699/Radio_Episode.aspx In 1912 a boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. In 2004, his granddaughter discovered a secret beneath the legend of her grandfather's kidnapping. We devote our entire episode to the story.

This American Life: This American Life: #329: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:25 -0400

A man makes his living getting lottery winners to sign over their jackpots. Sarah Vowell on the downside of the dream job. And John Hodgman on what happens when celebrity finds you--on your couch, pushing 40, a couple sizes larger than you'd like to be.

This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: This American Life: #353: The Audacity of Government

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:08 -0400

We've noticed a trend in actions taken lately by the U.S. government. Tiny things you probably haven't heard of, but with big implications. So we've decided to spend an hour talking about the unrelenting, combative style of this Administration.

This American Life: This American Life: #258: Leaving the Fold

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:59:01 -0400

Stories of people leaving the situation they're used to and striking off for something less familiar.