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This American Life Archive
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Autogenerated feed of the This American Life archive.

Episodes
  • 2024 / 10 / 10
    844: This Is the Case of Henry Dee

    Thirteen parole board members decide whether or not one man should be released from prison.

  • 2024 / 9 / 27
    842: A Year Later (Promo)

    Chen Almog-Goldstein tells the story of life as a hostage in Gaza.

  • 2024 / 9 / 5
    840: How Are You Not Seeing This? (Promo)

    People trying and struggling to see what another person sees.

  • 2024 / 8 / 22
    839: Meet Me at the Fair

    We spend a few days at the Iowa State Fair.

  • 2024 / 8 / 8
    838: Letters! Actual Letters! (Promo)

    When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down.

  • 2024 / 7 / 24
    837: Swim Towards the Shark

    In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?

  • 2024 / 7 / 24
    837: Swim Towards the Shark (Promo)

    In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond?

  • 2024 / 7 / 12
    836: The Big Rethink (Promo)

    People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives.

  • 2024 / 6 / 7
    834: Yousef In Rafah (Promo)

    Forced to make a choice he does not want to make.

  • 2024 / 6 / 7
    834: Yousef and the Fourth Move

    Yousef is forced into a move he is not sure he can make.

  • 2024 / 6 / 3
    833: Come Retribution (Promo)

    Donald Trump has a plan for his second term: retribution. We check in with the people who’ve crossed him to hear how they feel about that.

  • 2024 / 5 / 24
    832: That Other Guy (Promo)

    People tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.

  • 2024 / 5 / 17
    831: Lists!!! (Promo)

    How they organize the chaos of the world, for good and for bad.

  • 2024 / 5 / 8
    830: The Forever Trial (Promo)

    The trial for the men accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks still hasn’t started yet.

  • 2024 / 2 / 26
    825: Yousef’s Week

    A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza about what he and his family are experiencing.

  • 2024 / 2 / 26
    825: Yousef (Promo)

    A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza about what he and his family are experiencing.

  • 2023 / 6 / 23
    804: The Retrievals

    Patients at a fertility clinic experience excruciating, unexpected pain. For months the reason for that pain remains hidden. Then they get a letter from the clinic.

  • 2023 / 6 / 16
    802: Father's Day

    Ira's own father, Barry Glass, co-hosts this special Father's Day show.

  • 2023 / 6 / 3
    801: Rats! (Promo)

    Can’t live with them—or can you?

  • 2023 / 6 / 3
    801: Must Be Rats on the Brain

    The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to.

  • 2023 / 5 / 19
    800: Jane Doe

    Five years after the #MeToo explosion, what’s happened in the lives of the women who went public with their stories?

  • 2023 / 3 / 19
    794: So Close and Yet So Far (Promo)

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

  • 2022 / 7 / 21
    776: I Work Better on Deadline

    Stories of people racing against time to solve a problem. Will they make it?

  • 2022 / 6 / 24
    775: The Possum Experiment

    An investigation into a very basic question about people: Are most of us bad or good?

  • 2022 / 6 / 3
    773: The Longest Distance Between Two Points

    Getting from A to B via Z.

  • 2022 / 5 / 26
    771: The Parents Step In

    The government isn’t doing much to prevent school shootings. So parents are jumping in — and getting results.

  • 2022 / 5 / 11
    772: The Kids' Table

    Kids navigating hairy situations all on their own, with no help from grown-ups.

  • 2022 / 4 / 27
    770: My Lying Eyes

    People staring squarely at the truth, and still finding it hard to believe what they’re seeing.

  • 2022 / 4 / 19
    769: The Reluctant Explorer

    A man is thrust into a new world he didn’t ask to visit.

  • 2022 / 4 / 14
    768: The Other Front Lines

    Four personal stories from the war in Ukraine.

  • 2022 / 3 / 31
    767: Do Not Go Gentle

    Stories of resistance from Hungary and Russia.

  • 2022 / 3 / 25
    766: Well Someone Had to Do SOMETHING!

    People trying to jump in and solve other people's problems.

  • 2022 / 3 / 3
    764: School's Out Forever

    The pandemic broke school. Can we ever go back?

  • 2022 / 2 / 25
    763: The Other Mr. President

    Stories about Vladimir Putin.

  • 2022 / 2 / 4
    762: Apocalypse Creep

    Stories from places that are slowly coming apart.

  • 2022 / 1 / 27
    761: The Trojan Horse Affair

    A mysterious letter shocked Britain. But who wrote it?

  • 2022 / 1 / 21
    760: A City Walks Into an Investigation

    Our story continues about the Michigan couple who walked into a police officer's house and made a disturbing discovery.

  • 2022 / 1 / 13
    759: A Couple Walks Into a House

    An unsettling discovery in the home of a local police officer rocks an entire city.

  • 2021 / 12 / 10
    758: Talking While Black

    People tangled up in our current racial backlash in both extreme and very personal ways.

  • 2021 / 12 / 3
    756: But I Did Everything Right

    People earnestly doing what they're told, and absolutely not getting what they were promised.

  • 2021 / 12 / 2
    755: The Convert

    The story of an FBI undercover operation from 2006 that went terribly, and became the heart of a case heard at the Supreme Court.

  • 2021 / 11 / 18
    754: Spark Bird (Promo)

    Birds—the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreck, the lives they change.

  • 2021 / 11 / 18
    754: Spark Bird

    Birds—the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreck, the lives they change.

  • 2021 / 10 / 29
    753: What We’ve Got Here is Failure to Communicate

    Getting the point across — or trying to, anyway.

  • 2021 / 10 / 20
    752: An Invitation to Tea

    A man who was kept for 14 years in Guantanamo Bay gets out and issues an invitation to the people who kept him there.

  • 2021 / 10 / 16
    751: Audience of One

    We bring the movies to you.

  • 2021 / 10 / 7
    750: The Ferryman

    Getting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance.

  • 2021 / 9 / 15
    749: My Bad

    An hour devoted to embarrassing stories.

  • 2021 / 9 / 10
    747: Suitable for Children

    Who thought that would be good for a kid?

  • 2021 / 9 / 8
    748: The End of the World as We Know It

    What happens when one family goes all in on fighting climate change.