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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810: Say It to My Face
Friends and ex-friends finally talk about the one thing between them they've been avoiding. -
809: The Call
One call to a very unusual hotline, and everything that followed. -
388: Rest Stop
Nine radio reporters. Two days. One rest stop on the New York State Thruway. -
323: The Super
Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings. -
808: The Rest of the Story
People who—whether they want to or not—find themselves face-to-face with the rest of their stories. -
807: Eight Fights
Nadia's family is split between Russia and Ukraine, and when Russia invaded Ukraine, it sparked family conflict, too. -
806: I Can't Quit You, Baby
People on the verge of a big change, not wanting to let go. And the people who give them the final push. -
805: The Florida Experiment
Ron DeSantis says he'll do for America what he's done for Florida. So what's it like in Florida? -
804: The Retrievals
At a Yale fertility clinic, dozens of women began their I.V.F. cycles full of expectation and hope. Then a surgical procedure caused them excruciating pain. In the hours that followed, some of the women called the clinic to report their pain — but mo… -
803: Greetings, People Of Earth
Humans encounter non-human intelligences of various kinds and try to make sense of them.
