This American Life
By 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 plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
Latest episode
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840: How Are You Not Seeing This?
People trying and struggling to see what another person sees. -
839: Meet Me at the Fair
We spend a few days at the Iowa State Fair. -
801: Must Be Rats on the Brain
The one animal we can’t seem to live without, even when we really, really want to. -
754: Spark Bird
Stories about birds and the hearts they sway, the havoc they wreck, the lives they change. -
838: Letters! Actual Letters!
When the best—and perhaps only—way to say something is to write it down. -
837: Swim Towards the Shark
In a crisis, when all logic suggests that you get away from the dangerous thing, how will you respond? -
836: The Big Rethink
People rethinking some of the most important relationships in their lives. -
835: Children of Dave
Boen Wang goes back to a day that changed the course of his family's story. -
834: Yousef and the Fourth Move
Yousef is forced into a move he is not sure he can make. -
833: Come Retribution
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.
