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Official free, weekly podcast of the award-winning radio show "This American Life." First-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny and surprising. Hosted by Ira Glass, from WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. In mp3 and updated Mondays.

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206) #462: Own Worst Enemy

Stories of people who can?t seem to stop getting in their own way — sabotaging everything from their romantic relationships to their physical health. Featuring a new radio drama by Jonathan Mitchell.

Datum: 16.04.2012 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

205) #332: The Ten Commandments

Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.

Datum: 09.04.2012 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

204) #461: Take the Money and Run for Office

For anyone who has ever heard the term "Washington insider" and felt outside — we are with you. So this week, we go inside the rooms where the deals get made, to the actual moment that the checks change hands — and we ask the people writing and receiving the checks what, exactly, is the ...

Datum: 02.04.2012 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

203) #454: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.

Datum: 09.01.2012 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

202) #421: Last Man Standing

Is it stubbornness? Tenacity? Survival of the fittest? This week, stories about people who feel compelled to keep going, especially when everyone else has given up.

Datum: 12.12.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

201) #452: Poultry Slam 2011

We bring you our sort-of-annual holiday tradition: The Poultry Slam! Stories of what happens when humans and fowl collide, including the tale of one notorious turkey who unleashed a long reign of terror on an unsuspecting neighborhood.

Datum: 05.12.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

200) #449: Middle School

This week, at the suggestion of a 14-year-old listener, we bring you stories from the awkward, confusing, hormonally charged world of middle school. Including a teacher who transforms peer pressure into a force for good, and reports from the frontlines of the middle school dance. (Pictured: 7th gr...

Datum: 31.10.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

199) #279: Auto Show

Stories about people who love their cars, for better or for worse.

Datum: 17.10.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

198) #448: Adventure!

Sometimes you choose the adventure and sometimes the adventure chooses you. This week, stories that pinpoint when people's boring old lives turn into something wildly unfamiliar. Including a story of one young man's time served in a Chinese prison, and a handful of adventure stories from some of our...

Datum: 10.10.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

197) #309: Cat and Mouse

Stories about the kinds of chase games that just never end. From the high California desert to a high-end furniture showroom.

Datum: 03.10.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

196) #447: The Incredible Case of the P.I. Moms

What do you get when you take a P.I. firm, then add in a bunch of sexy soccer moms, official sponsorship from Glock, a lying boss, and delusions of grandeur? This week's show.

Datum: 26.09.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

195) #446: Living Without (2011)

Stories of people living without. Nubar Alexanian explains what fish can do for him that his own ears cannot. Bobby Morris, on leaving baseball. And other stories.

Datum: 19.09.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

194) #445: Ten Years In

In this show, we return to people who've been on This American Life in the last ten years, whose lives were drastically altered by 9/11, including Hyder Akbar, an Afghan-American teen who moved to Afghanistan after his father was tapped to become governor of Kunar province there.

Datum: 12.09.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

193) #241: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes

Instead of the usual "each week we choose a theme, and bring you 3 or 4 stories on that theme" business, we throw all that away and bring you 20 stories?yes, 20?in 60 minutes.

Datum: 05.09.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

192) #444: Gossip

This week, Sarah Koenig hosts, as we tackle the thing we all hate to love: Gossip. That's right; we've got rumor, we've got innuendo, and we've got a story of gossipers gone pro. Sarah even makes a compelling case that in some places, gossip could very well be saving lives. But you didn't hear it fr...

Datum: 29.08.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

191) #323: The Super

In 1980's New York City, rent is rising: it seems out of control, and residents struggle to keep up. So Jack Hitt helps organize tenants, and threatens a rent strike. This does not go over so well with his building super, who, as it turns out, is a very dangerous man.

Datum: 22.08.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

190) #443: Amusement Park

We head to some of the happiest places on Earth: Amusement Parks! Jonathan Goldstein revisits one he worked at as a teen, Ira takes us behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, where the staff so loves their jobs they make music videos and other videos.

Datum: 15.08.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

189) #442: Thugs

Like a lot of Mexican towns, Florencia has had its share of problems dealing with drug gangs. That is until recently, when new narcos rolled into town telling residents that they were there to liberate them. They promised that people would live in peace and tranquility. And so far, it's working. As ...

Datum: 01.08.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

188) #441: When Patents Attack!

Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries. ...

Datum: 25.07.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

187) #339: Break-Up

Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-year-old author of a book about divorce, and other stories from the heart of heartbreak.

Datum: 18.07.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

186) #440: Game Changer

A professor in Pennsylvania makes a calculation, to discover that his state is sitting atop a massive reserve of natural gas—enough to revolutionize how America gets its energy. But another professor in Pennsylvania does a different calculation and reaches a troubling conclusion: that getting ...

Datum: 11.07.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

185) #218: Act V

We devote this entire episode to one story: Over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act?Act V?of Hamlet.

Datum: 04.07.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

184) #439: A House Divided

Stories about people who find themselves either unexpectedly being singled out or doing the singling out. Including one story about nine public officials whose constituents are trying to throw them out of office, and another story about a man's very physical battle with himself.

Datum: 27.06.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

183) #438: Father's Day 2011

Yes yes yes you've heard it all before, when it comes to stories of fathers and their children. There's the story of the kid who idolizes his dad, but then learns something and becomes disappointed. Or the opposite story, where the kid gives up on his dad when he's still young, and then much later...

Datum: 20.06.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

182) #437: Old Boys Network

Stories about standing up to the man—or, really, the men. Nurses at a small Texas hospital report a well-connected doctor for dangerous medical practices, and find themselves under arrest. Plus...how political operators in Chicago get to be judges.

Datum: 06.06.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

181) #436: The Psychopath Test

Recently we heard about this test that could determine if someone was a psychopath. So, naturally, our staff decided to take it. This week we hear the results. Plus Jon Ronson asks the question: is this man a psychopath?

Datum: 30.05.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

180) #393: Infidelity

Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated. Writer James Braly with a story about temptation (performed and recorded at The Moth), Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and more.

Datum: 23.05.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

179) #435: How To Create a Job

It seems like every politician has a plan for putting people back to work. But we and the Planet Money team couldn?t help but wonder?how do you create a job? Can politicians truly create many jobs? Is it possible the whole thing is just well-intentioned hot air?

Datum: 16.05.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

178) #434: This Week

This week we're trying something we've never tried before: An hour of stories about...this week. We take a crack at major news events, like what's happening in Egypt; and at the most minor, like an 8-year-old who's finally taking the training wheels off her bike. The stories are united by one thing:...

Datum: 09.05.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

177) #186: Prom

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas?a town of about 3,000?a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it. When they emerged from the dance, they discovered what had happened, and in the weeks that followed, they tried to explain to themselves why the tornado hit...

Datum: 02.05.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

176) #306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time

A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their 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.

Datum: 25.04.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

175) #433: Fine Print 2011

Stories where the fine print changes everything, whether you read it or not.

Datum: 18.04.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

174) #432: Know When To Fold 'Em

When is it time to walk away, and when is it time to run? This week we have the story of an entire country deciding whether to give up on just one of its citizens, when to hold 'em in order to win nearly a million dollars in poker, and a new story from Dave Dickerson.

Datum: 11.04.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

173) #431: See No Evil

When things are awkward or uncomfortable or distressing, a lot of times it's easier to not think about it. This week we have stories of people pretending that everything is okay and ignoring the awful stuff that's staring them straight in the face. Including a story of deceit and intrigue involving ...

Datum: 04.04.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

172) #430: Very Tough Love

This week: A drug court program that we believe is run differently from every other drug court in the country, doing some things that are contrary to the very philosophy of drug court. The result? People with offenses that would get minimal or no sentences elsewhere sometimes end up in the system ...

Datum: 28.03.2011 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

171) #429: Will They Know Me Back Home?

Stories of people who've grown so accustomed to wartime that the lives they've left behind no longer make sense. Including a US battalion going home on leave after 15 months of deployment, and an Iraqi translator's story of life after the gig is up.

Datum: 14.03.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

170) #428: Oh You Shouldn't Have

Stories about the perils of giving and receiving gifts: Ones that go over spectacularly well in spite of being in poor taste, and ones that flop even with the best intentions. Including what happens when—surprise!—your whole past gets laid out for a live TV audience.

Datum: 07.03.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

169) #282: DIY

After four lawyers fail to get an innocent man out of prison, his friend takes on the case himself. He becomes a do-it-yourself investigator. He learns to read court records, he tracks down hard-to-find witnesses, he gets the real murderer to come forward with his story. In the end, he's able to acc...

Datum: 28.02.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

168) #401: Parent Trap

Stories about parents setting accidental traps for their children, and sometimes for themselves, including a story from WNYC's Radiolab about a chimp raised twice?once as a human child, and again as a chimp.

Datum: 21.02.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

167) #427: Original Recipe

The formula for Coca-Cola is one of the most jealously guarded trade secrets in the world. Locked in a vault in Atlanta. Supposedly unreplicable. But we think we may have found the original recipe. And to see if the formula actually might be Coke, we made a batch. Or, anyway, we asked the folks...

Datum: 14.02.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

166) #426: Tough Room 2011

This week we bring you backstage with comedy writers at The Onion. They start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week, and over the course of two days, in the very tough room that is their editorial conference room, they select 16 to go in the paper. Plus other peop...

Datum: 07.02.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

165) #399: Contents Unknown

Stories of filling in the blank. A man finds himself in a train station in India, with no idea how he got there or who he is. His memory gone, he has no choice but to let other people?police, doctors, friends, family?create an identity for him.

Datum: 31.01.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

164) #425: Slow To React

This week we have stories where people's reactions move very slowly, including the story of a wedding 17 years in the making, and what it's like when you have a terminal illness that's supposed to kill you in a year or two, and it decides to take its time. Note: this episode includes a story not sui...

Datum: 24.01.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

163) #424: Kid Politics

What if, say, the U.S.-led invasion of Grenada in 1983 had been decided, not by Ronald Reagan, but by a bunch of middle-schoolers? And what if every rule at your high school had been determined, not by teachers and administrators, but entirely by teenagers? This week, stories about whether, when it ...

Datum: 17.01.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

162) #423: The Invention of Money

Five reporters stumbled on what seems like a basic question: What is money? The unsettling answer they found: Money is fiction. Photo: Stone money on the island of Yap.

Datum: 10.01.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

161) #234: Say Anything

Does talking about it really help? Stories where it does, and stories where it doesn't, including Michael Bernard Loggins, who tried to battle his fears by listing them. He ended up with a list 183 items long.

Datum: 03.01.2011 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

160) #305: The This American Life Holiday Spectacular

A full-throttle, show-stopping, no-holds-barred Christmas Spectacular! Shedding the crusty old Christmas stories of yore, we bring you new holiday classics. With special musical guest Marah!

Datum: 27.12.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

159) #422: Comedians of Christmas Comedy Special

The holidays are stressful so we booked a seasonal pick-me-up: an hour of comedy. Including comedians Wyatt Cenac, Mike Birbiglia, Julian McCullough, Jenny Slate, Gabe Liedman and Edith Zimmerman. Musical guests: Dave Hill and Doug Gillard.

Datum: 20.12.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

158) #371: Scenes From a Mall

This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, to document life in the mall during the run-up to Christmas. Also, a rift in a national association of professional Santas?the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas (yes, there is such a group).

Datum: 13.12.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

157) #252: Poultry Slam 2003

During the period of the year with the highest turkey consumption, we bring you an annual This American Life tradition: Stories of turkeys, chickens, geese, ducks, fowl of all kinds, real and imagined, and their mysterious hold over us.

Datum: 29.11.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

156) #420: Neighborhood Watch

It?s amazing just how much drama can take place in the mini-universe of a neighborhood. This week we bring you stories of neighbors watching out for each other, for better and worse, including a story from CBC's WireTap.

Datum: 22.11.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

155) #419: Petty Tyrant

In Schenectady, NY, a school maintenance man named Steve Raucci works his way up the ranks for 30 years, until finally he's in charge of the maintenance department. That's when he starts messing with his employees. Teasing them at meetings. Punishing them with crummy work assignments. Or worse thing...

Datum: 15.11.2010 01:00 • Größe: unbekannt

154) #418: Toxie

In January 2010, reporters from Planet Money bought a toxic asset—you know, the things that blew up wall street banks, sank the economy and brought the global financial system to a halt—one of those. And "Toxie" turned out to be an encyclopedia of the financial crisis. Here's an animatio...

Datum: 08.11.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

153) #417: This Party Sucks

A show for this year's midterm elections. Two best friends in Michigan, both political novices, get tired of yelling at their TVs and take matters into their own hands. They form a Tea Party chapter to effect political change. But when push comes to shove and they have to choose a candidate, their ...

Datum: 01.11.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

152) #317: Unconditional Love

Stories of unconditional love between parents and children, and how hard love can be sometimes in daily practice.

Datum: 25.10.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

151) #317: Unconditional Love

Stories of unconditional love between parents and children, and how hard love can sometimes be in daily practice.

Datum: 24.10.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

150) #416: Iraq After Us

Operation Iraqi Freedom is over. And the next chapter of Iraq is being written now. But what actually happened there the last seven years?

Datum: 17.10.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

149) #361: Fear of Sleep

Mike Birbiglia had bizarre adventures at night, but just got used to sleep being slightly scary?until it almost killed him. Reasons to fear sleep, including roaches, bedbugs, "The Shining," and mild-mannered husbands who turn into maniacs while asleep.

Datum: 10.10.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

148) #389: Frenemies

This week we bring you stories about friends. Or wait, enemies? How about both?

Datum: 03.10.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

147) #415: Crybabies

Crybabies are annoying. They whine, they complain, sometimes they ruin it for the rest of us. But being a crybaby can be a really effective tactic.

Datum: 26.09.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

146) #359: Life After Death

When John returned from Iraq, he was haunted by the killing he'd done. He got treatment, and his case looked optimistic. Then John attacked his fiancée. This and other stories of people who've come face to face with death and are struggling to move on.

Datum: 19.09.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

145) #414: Right To Remain Silent

Stories about people who have the right to remain silent...but choose not to exercise that right?including a police officer who begins recording his supervisors to prove they're manipulating crime statistics in potentially dangerous ways.

Datum: 12.09.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

144) #214: Family Physics

We take the stately laws of physics?laws which mathmaticians and scientists have spent centuries discovering and verifying?and apply them to the realm of human relationships, to see if they shed useful light on our daily lives.

Datum: 05.09.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

143) #177: American Limbo

Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life. Americans in Paris. Chinese in America. West Virginians in treehouses. Mexican-Americans in Rochester.

Datum: 29.08.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

142) #388: Rest Stop

Nine radio producers. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway.

Datum: 22.08.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

141) #178: Superpowers

We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And which is better: flight or invisibility? (Depends who you ask.)

Datum: 15.08.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

140) #259: Promised Land

Datum: 08.08.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

139) #413: Georgia Rambler

In the 1970s a journalist named Charles Salter wrote a column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called "Georgia Rambler." He traveled to towns all over the state of Georgia, in search of the most interesting people to interview. This week...we...

Datum: 01.08.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

138) #383: Origin Story

This week we bring you little-known and surprising stories of how all sorts of institutions?from a controversial legal precedent to a Hollywood teen dance flick?began.

Datum: 25.07.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

137) #412: Million Dollar Idea

Back in the 1980s Michael Larson made the most money ever on the game show Press Your Luck. And it was no accident?Larson had a plan to get rich that surprised everyone: The home viewers, the show's producers and mostly Larson himself.

Datum: 18.07.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

136) #385: Pro Se

It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause. Who better to defend your position than you? This week, stories of pro se defenses: some brilliant, some disastrous.

Datum: 11.07.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

135) #109: Notes on Camp

Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing. In this show, we attempt to bridge the gap of misunderstanding.

Datum: 04.07.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

134) #411: First Contact

Stories of first encounters with unknown beings: girls, foreigners and perhaps even aliens. Including a story by comedian Mike Birbiglia about his first kiss.

Datum: 27.06.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

133) #410: Social Contract

Richard Ravitch has helped fix three governmental crises, including when New York City nearly went bankrupt in 1975. What's changed, to make it so much harder for him to solve the state's current financial crisis?

Datum: 20.06.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

132) #203: Recordings for Someone

Datum: 13.06.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

131) #409: Held Hostage

A kidnapping victim in Colombia spends his nights listening to a radio station that plays messages from the families of the kidnapped. That and other stories of people held captive -- by criminals, by paperwork, and in one man's case, his own...

Datum: 06.06.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

130) #102: Roadtrip!

Stories about hitting the open road. Dishwasher Pete takes the bus with strangers, and Margy Rochlin explains her days on the road with George Burns. Plus, a roadtrip to save a marriage.

Datum: 30.05.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

129) #408: Island Time

Unprecedented amounts of money have been pledged to Haitian relief in the last few months. The only problem is that - historically - blanketing a country in aid has never really worked well. Is there a chance this time things could be different?

Datum: 23.05.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

128) #225: Home Movies

Home movies are often all the same ? kids on the beach, people getting married, birthday parties ? so why do we make and watch so many of them?

Datum: 16.05.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

127) #407: The Bridge

One of China's most famous bridges is known for 2 things: its massive size, and its high suicide rate. This week, one reporter's trip to meet the watchman who patrols that bridge looking for jumpers. This and other stories where surviving the...

Datum: 09.05.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

126) #379: Return To The Scene Of The Crime

Ira Glass hosts an episode of the radio program, in front of a live audience. The show is performed onstage by some of our favorite contributors: Dan Savage, Starlee Kine, and Mike Birbiglia tell stories. Plus a special appearance by Joss Whedon!

Datum: 02.05.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

125) #406: True Urban Legends

Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet? Can your cell phone give you a brain tumor? And, perhaps most intriguingly: Is a tough, dysfunctional California high school really all that tough or dysfunctional? Find out this week!

Datum: 25.04.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

124) #175: Babysitting

Datum: 18.04.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

123) #405: Inside Job

For seven months a team of investigative journalists from the group ProPublica has been looking into a story for us, the inside story of one company, one small group of people, who made hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves while worsening...

Datum: 11.04.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

122) #404: Enemy Camp 2010

Living behind enemy lines, among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.

Datum: 04.04.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

121) #403: NUMMI

The story of a car plant in Fremont California that might have saved the U.S. car industry, if only Detroit had been quicker to learn its lessons. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture, building cars with Japanese...

Datum: 28.03.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

120) #246: My Pen Pal

Stories of very unusual pen pals.

Datum: 21.03.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

119) #402: Save the Day

Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong.

Datum: 14.03.2010 17:00 • Größe: unbekannt

118) #377: Scenes From a Recession

The economy works in mysterious ways. This week, we highlight the unusual circumstances our economic drought has left us in, and the newly hatched plans being made to survive it.

Datum: 07.03.2010 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

117) #204: 81 Words

The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.

Datum: 01.03.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

116) #401: Parent Trap

Stories about imposing a special brand of adult wisdom on those who are younger, and least likely to escape...or forget.

Datum: 22.02.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

115) #400: Stories Pitched By Our Parents

This week, each TAL producer solicits story ideas from a parent...and chose one idea to pursue, lousy or not.

Datum: 15.02.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

114) #199: House on Loon Lake

Our entire show this week is one long story, sort of a real-life Hardy Boys mystery.

Datum: 08.02.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

113) #81: Guns

Americans who love their guns...and the Americans who love them.

Datum: 01.02.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

112) #399: Contents Unknown

Datum: 25.01.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

111) #374: Somewhere Out There

Of all the 6.5 billion people in the world, what are the odds that any two people are a real match? Stories from people who know they?ve beat the odds?including two kids who travel halfway around the country to find each other.

Datum: 18.01.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

110) #398: Long Shot

Stories of people betting on something with very bad odds, mostly because they have no other choice.

Datum: 11.01.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

109) #397: 2010

We've asked contributors to give us their predictions for the upcoming year. Stories of families getting bigger, and Smaller. Stories of big fortunes, and big losses.

Datum: 04.01.2010 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

108) #87: A Very Special Sedaris Christmas

Stories from David Sedaris' book of Christmas stories, Holidays on Ice, read onstage by David, Julia Sweeney and actor Matt Malloy.

Datum: 28.12.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

107) #396: #1 Party School

We wondered: What is it like to be at the country's top party school? This American Life producers spent a recent football weekend at Penn State to figure this out.

Datum: 21.12.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

106) #342: How to Rest in Peace

There are umpteen TV shows about solving murders, endless whodunits in bookstores. But what happens to people left behind after detectives close the case? Stories about children trying to figure out how to live normally after their parents have died.

Datum: 14.12.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

105) #286: Mind Games

Stories of people who try simple mind games on others, and then find themselves way in over their heads.

Datum: 07.12.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

104) #395: Middle of the Night

Stories of people who are up while the rest of us are sleeping?some for work, some for play, and some for a free sandwich

Datum: 30.11.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

103) #369: Poultry Slam 2008

Stories about the powerful combination of chickens, faith and God in our not-quite-annual, all new for 2008, Poultry Slam. (Special note to chicken enthusiasts: the show's name is a pun on Chicago's Poetry Slam.)

Datum: 23.11.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

102) #233: Starting from Scratch

Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.

Datum: 16.11.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

101) #394: Bait and Switch

Stories about people who take the bait, and those who place it. Including the story of man who tries to investigate a neighborhood crime and ends up in jail himself. And the story of the pitfalls of luring customers to a make-believe pizza delivery place.

Datum: 09.11.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

100) #393: Infidelity

Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated. Writer James Braly with a story about temptation, Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and more.

Datum: 02.11.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

99) #213: Devil on My Shoulder

Stories of people who are trying to convince you that the Devil is there, whispering in your ear... and stories of people who try to deny he's there, against some very heavy evidence.

Datum: 26.10.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

98) #392: Someone Else's Money

This week, we bring you a deeper look inside the health insurance industry.

Datum: 18.10.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

97) #391: More Is Less

An hour explaining the American health care system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising.

Datum: 11.10.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

96) #137: The Book That Changed Your Life

Datum: 04.10.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

95) #390: Return To The Giant Pool of Money

In which we mark the anniversary of the economic collapse and the anniversary of Planet Money: recapping some of the original episode and finding out what's happened to all those guys in the year since.

Datum: 27.09.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

94) #168: The Fix Is In

This week we rerun a show from 2000 about a price fixing conspiracy and the executive who cooperated with the FBI in recording what are probably the most remarkable videotapes ever made of an American company in the middle of a criminal act.

Datum: 20.09.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

93) #75: Kindness of Strangers

Stories of the kindness of strangers, and where it leads. Also, the unkindness of strangers and where that can lead. All in New York.

Datum: 30.08.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

92) #27: The Cruelty of Children

Stories about kids being mean to each other.

Datum: 23.08.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

91) #364: Going Big

Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.

Datum: 16.08.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

90) #387: Arms Trader 2009

The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping Hemant Lakhani, whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. In the end, they got him red-handed: the only problem was, nothing in the sting was what it appeared to be.

Datum: 09.08.2009 23:00 • Größe: unbekannt

89) #362: Got You Pegged

Stories about the trouble people get into when they assume too much about strangers.

Datum: 03.08.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

88) #386: Fine Print

Stories where reading the fine print?and obeying it?changes everything.

Datum: 27.07.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

87) #360: Switched At Birth

Two baby girls were born in a hospital, and the infants were accidentally switched. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decides to tell both daughters what happened.

Datum: 06.07.2009 00:00 • Größe: unbekannt

86) #384: Fall Guy

Stories of people who take the fall for other people?s bad ideas and decisions.

Datum: 29.06.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

85) #289: Go Ask Your Father

Sons and daughters get to find out the one thing they've always wanted to know about their father: the answers aren't always what they hope for.

Datum: 15.06.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

84) #382: The Watchmen

One of the biggest questions about this financial crisis gripping our economy: How did it happen? Wasn't someone supposed to watching things? Making sure people were acting prudently?

Datum: 08.06.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

83) #223: Classifieds

The classifieds from two Chicago newspapers create a portrait of the whole city: jobs offered, missed connections, the crap that people sell each other, and musicians' ISOs.

Datum: 01.06.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

82) #381: Turncoat

A well-known activist?an anarchic, revolutionary activist?is accused of spying on other activists for the FBI. The strangest thing about the rumor is, it's true. Plus, a story by Etgar Keret.

Datum: 25.05.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

81) #380: No Map

Stories of people who find themselves in situations far from the beaten path, where there are no guidelines and no useful precedents, including the return of Squirrel Cop.

Datum: 18.05.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

80) #291: Reunited (And It Feels So Good)

Stories about getting back together with your spouse, your country, your... Brahman bull. And how it never goes the way you think it's going to.

Datum: 11.05.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

79) #181: The Friendly Man

A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling stories sound like nothing else on the radio.

Datum: 27.04.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

78) #378: This I Used to Believe

Stories of people forced to let go of their firmly held beliefs. The daughter of a pro-choice activist concludes that abortion is murder, so her mother tries very hard to persuade her otherwise. And writer Andrew Solomon with a story about rams.

Datum: 20.04.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

77) #354: Mistakes Were Made

It's the late 60's and one man sees a business opportunity in cryonics. Freezing people to be reanimated by scientists of the future: how hard can that be? This and other stories about the difficulty of taking responsibility for failure.

Datum: 13.04.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

76) #283: Remember Me

Stories about people who are remembered very differently than they'd wished. The ghost of a kindly, distinguished philanthropist supposedly plays pranks on guests. A dying mother makes a tape for her developmentally disabled daughter.

Datum: 06.04.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

75) #209: Didn't Ask to Be Born

Datum: 23.03.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

74) #376: Wrong Side of History

Stories of people with wildly popular or unpopular views for one moment in time, and how those views stand up years, decades, even centuries later.

Datum: 16.03.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

73) #350: Human Resources

There?s a secret room in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their classrooms. No reason is usually given. Plus other stories of the uneasy interaction between humans and their institutions.

Datum: 09.03.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

72) #375: Bad Bank

Alex Blumberg and NPR?s Adam Davidson team up once again to talk economy: specifically, the US?s current plan to deal with banks, why the plan looks suspicious and what it all amounts to.

Datum: 02.03.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

71) #205: Plan B

There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.

Datum: 23.02.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

70) #352: The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar

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.

Datum: 09.02.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

69) #373: The New Boss

Stories about what happens when someone new takes over?someone with a vision of how things ought to be. Plus, NPR economics correspondent Adam Davidson on how Obama's new stimulus plan might actually be the first ever test of a very, very old theory.

Datum: 02.02.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

68) #281: My Big Break

Sometimes, getting your big break isn't all it's cracked up to be. A comedy duo lands the gig that could make them famous?and they bomb. A third-grader gets his big chance to please his mother. And other stories.

Datum: 26.01.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

67) #372: The Inauguration Show

On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, we sent reporters out all over the country to talk to people about how they're feeling about this new president.

Datum: 19.01.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

66) #347: Matchmakers

Sabir thought he'd found true love but he couldn't afford a wedding. Two foreign aid workers come to his rescue; but they soon realize he needs more than money. This and other stories of people matching others up?with wives, with toys, with body parts.

Datum: 12.01.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

65) #88: Numbers

Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers to describe things that should not be quantified.

Datum: 05.01.2009 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

64) #371: Scenes From a Mall

This American Life spends a few days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, to see what people are buying in this grim financial mood, and how stores are coping. Also, a rift in the national association of real-bearded Santas (yes, there is...

Datum: 29.12.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

63) #370: Ruining It for the Rest of Us

When they decided not to vaccinate their son against measles, two San Diego parents thought they were making the best decision for their child. This and other stories about what happens when people's actions and choices infringe on those around them.

Datum: 22.12.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

62) #241: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes

Instead of the regular "each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme" business, this week we throw all that away and bring you twenty stories?yes, twenty?in sixty minutes.

Datum: 15.12.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

61) #304: Heretics

The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he'd worked for over his entire life.

Datum: 08.12.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

60) #104: Music Lessons

What's frustrating about music lessons, what's miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us.

Datum: 24.11.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

59) #346: Home Alone

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.

Datum: 17.11.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

58) #368: Who Do You Think You Are?

This week we bring you stories of privilege, and the lengths some will go to to maintain it. One woman's fight to stop a celebrity from breaking her city's parking laws. And a collection of stories from the Studs Terkel Hard Times radio series.

Datum: 10.11.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

57) #319: And the Call Was Coming from the Basement

For Halloween, scary stories that are all true. Kidnappings, zombie raccoons, haunted houses?real haunted houses!?and things that go "EEEEK!!!" in the night. Plus, a new story by David Sedaris, in which he walks among the dead.

Datum: 03.11.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

56) #367: Ground Game

This American Life goes to Pennsylvania to figure out why, and how, John McCain and Barack Obama both think they can win there. And we get to know the ordinary people who?ve become the candidates? most forceful foot soldiers.

Datum: 27.10.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

55) #198: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Stories of people climbing to be number one. How do they do it? What is the fundamental difference between us and them?

Datum: 20.10.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

54) #366: A Better Mousetrap 2008

Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems?solutions that sometimes cause problems of their own.

Datum: 13.10.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

53) #365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy

Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson - the two guys who reported our "Giant Pool of Money" episode - are back. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent all of this from happening in the first place.

Datum: 06.10.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

52) #301: Settling the Score

Stories about the lengths we go to make things right, and about what money can and cannot fix.

Datum: 22.09.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

51) #363: Enforcers

Professor So and So, Jojobean and YeaWhatever spend part of every day running cons on internet scammers: and consider themselves enforcers of justice, even after endangering a man?s life. This and other stories of who steps up, who doesn't and why.

Datum: 15.09.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

50) #340: The Devil in Me

Stories of people trying to exorcize their inner demons.

Datum: 08.09.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

49) #62: Something for Nothing

Stories of people trying to get rich quick, or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price.

Datum: 01.09.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

48) #339: Break-Up

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.

Datum: 18.08.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

47) #338: The Spokesman

Stories of what happens when you go from private person to public face.

Datum: 04.08.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

46) #293: A Little Bit of Knowledge

Stories about the pitfalls of knowing just a little bit too little.

Datum: 14.07.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

45) #327: By Proxy

Stories of proxy fights, proxy arguments, and proxy situations of all kinds.

Datum: 07.07.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

44) #358: Social Engineering

Stories of social engineering on a small scale. In one, a man convinces his friend to try something new, turn his back on a good-paying salary and an apartment...and become homeless.

Datum: 30.06.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

43) #334: Duty Calls

Josh's mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much. His brother got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't lived with them since he was nine, and they didn't play much of a role in his daily life--until duty called, and they took over his life.

Datum: 23.06.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

42) #357: The Truth Will Out

Does the truth always come out? Of course not! Though sometimes it comes out in the most uncomfortable ways imaginable. Stories of concealed truths bubbling to the surface, including a new, unpublished story by fiction writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret.

Datum: 16.06.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

41) #332: The Ten Commandments

Datum: 09.06.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

40) #356: The Prosecutor

A lawyer in the Justice Department gets the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to be the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11. But things go badly for him ? so badly, he ends up on trial himself.

Datum: 02.06.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

39) #186: Prom

While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas -- a town of about 3,000 -- a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it. Plus other stories from Prom Nights.

Datum: 26.05.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

38) #335: Big Wide World

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.

Datum: 19.05.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

37) #355: The Giant Pool of Money

A special program about the housing crisis. We explain it all to you. Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? Why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to one thing.

Datum: 12.05.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

36) #328: What I Learned from Television

Stories about what TV can teach us...and how TV lies to us. With music by Mates of State.

Datum: 05.05.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

35) #318: With Great Power

Stories of everyday people who get saddled with great power and the great sense of responsibility that goes with it.

Datum: 28.04.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

34) #258: Leaving the Fold

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

Datum: 14.04.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

33) #166: Nobody's Family Is Going to Change

Three stories that ask: does anyone's family ever change? A woman goes to Alaska, hoping her brother might change a little. A sibling relationship that doesn't ever change--over decades. And what if literally nothing can change your dad?

Datum: 07.04.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

32) #353: The Audacity of Government

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.

Datum: 31.03.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

31) #329: Nice Work If You Can Get It

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.

Datum: 24.03.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

30) #220: Testosterone

Stories of people getting more testosterone and coming to regret it. And of people losing it and coming to appreciate life without it. The pros and cons of the hormone of desire.

Datum: 25.02.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

29) #349: Valentine's Day 2008

Stories about couples that all take place decades after that moment their eyes meet.

Datum: 18.02.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

28) #348: Tough Room

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?nuclear energy. These and other stories of people speaking their minds in very tough rooms.

Datum: 11.02.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

27) #326: Quiz Show

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.

Datum: 04.02.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

26) #324: My Brilliant Plan

An American reporter in Iraq decides to rent a house in a residential Baghdad neighborhood rather than live in a hotel and be an easy target for insurgents. And a little boy figures out an ingenious way to see his dead father again. Big ideas gone amok.

Datum: 28.01.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

25) #323: The Super

Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or their buildings have on them.

Datum: 14.01.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

24) #322: Shouting Across the Divide

A Muslim family moves to America. Things are good, until September 11: their daughter?s school begins using a textbook that says Muslims want to kill Christians. This and other stories of Muslims and non-Muslims trying to communicate, and misfiring.

Datum: 07.01.2008 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

23) #303: David and Goliath

Three stories of people attempting extraordinary things to balance the scales between Davids and Goliaths of all kinds. Children, nations, and retail shoppers alike.

Datum: 31.12.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

22) #345: Ties That Bind

A young girl named Sarah receives a heart transplant from a boy her age, and her mother sets off to find out more about him. But years later, Sarah's not sure she wants to know. Plus, a story by Jonathan Goldstein about a friendship gone awry in Bedrock.

Datum: 17.12.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

21) #253: The Middle of Nowhere

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.

Datum: 10.12.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

20) #344: The Competition

Stories about unintended consequences of market forces. A Tulsa businessman tries to cut costs by bringing workers from India to Tulsa. And two competing TV news teams in Boise, Idaho, begin with the same set of facts and end up with opposite conclusions.

Datum: 03.12.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

19) #116: Poultry Slam

For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, we investigate turkeys, chickens, ducks--fowl of all types...and their mysterious hold over us.

Datum: 26.11.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

18) #174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones

Birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones of all sorts...and how they mean something whether we want them to or not. A live show taped for our fifth anniversary, back in 2000, when we went on the road to Boston, New York, Chicago, and L.A.

Datum: 19.11.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

17) #84: Harold

A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, told two decades after his death. Washington died 20 years ago this month--on November 25, 1987.

Datum: 12.11.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

16) #154: In Dog We Trust

We try to define the peculiar relationship between humans and animals. A love triangle among two people and a cat. David Sedaris on his family's pets through the ages. And Brady Udall with a tale of love, redemption, and armadillos.

Datum: 29.10.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

15) #110: Mapping

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

Datum: 22.10.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

14) #218: Act V

Inmates at a high-security prison rehearse and stage a production of the last act -- Act V -- of "Hamlet." It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers living out the consequences.

Datum: 15.10.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

13) #341: How to Talk to Kids

A raunchy comedian on a tour of kids' sleep-away camps. A middle-aged woman talking to her teenaged daughter about her sexuality. And other stories of adults trying to learn the language of children.

Datum: 08.10.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

12) #314: It's Never Over

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

Datum: 01.10.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

11) #121: Twentieth Century Man

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

Datum: 24.09.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

10) #192: Meet the Pros

Stories of amateurs hurtling themselves at the pros whose jobs they covet.

Datum: 17.09.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

9) #28: Detectives

Writer David Sedaris remembers when his mother and sister played armchair detective--until a very odd crime wave hit within their own home. Also, host Ira Glass goes out on surveillance with a real-life private eye.

Datum: 20.08.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

8) #73: Blame It on Art

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

Datum: 06.08.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

7) #337: Man vs. History

Stories about people taking history into their own hands. We hear from two men in two different wars--in the current war in Iraq and at the very end of the Cold War.

Datum: 30.07.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

6) #207: Special Ed

Stories about people who were told that they're different. Some of them were comfortable with it. Some didn't understand it. And some understood, but didn't like it.

Datum: 23.07.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

5) #14: Accidental Documentaries

Stories made from old tapes found in various places--recordings found in attics and thrift stores.

Datum: 16.07.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

4) #336: Who Can You Save?

Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.

Datum: 09.07.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

3) #69: Dreamhouse

How many of our parents move to some place--some dreamhouse--with some vision of a new life in the new place, and move the family with them, hoping it works out for the kids? Three stories on this theme.

Datum: 02.07.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

2) #173: Three Kinds of Deception

A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception. And how one type of deception can easily turn into another.

Datum: 25.06.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt

1) #333: The Center for Lessons Learned

Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk--and sometimes yell--about what they've learned in the last few years.

Datum: 28.05.2007 06:00 • Größe: unbekannt