This American Life- Episodes 1 To 372
Hey all,
We have government funded public radio in Europe, part of everyday culture. Most US radio I’d heard was full of haranguing partisan voice, full of hate and illogic.
Anyway, I was in the US in 1998 for a work trip. Driving back from an early morning trip to the Golden Gate Bridge one Saturday morning I discovered NPR, and This American Life, (ironically, episode 100, called Radio, explaining how radio playlists are compiled ) and I was hooked. This was the radio I knew, radio for intelligent, open people, radio that treated it’s audience as adults, just like home, not the haranguing screaming voices I’d been hearing all week. I loved it. Any time after that I returned to the US, the first thing I did when picking up a rental car was to retune the car radio to the local NPR station.
Here are all episodes of This American Life up to Episode 373. (excludinf episode 6 which I can’t find anywhere.)
1995
1: New Beginnings
2: Small Scale Sin
3: Poultry Slam
4: Vacations
5: Anger and Forgiveness
7: Quitting
1996
8: New Year
9: Julia Sweeney
10: Double Lives
11: Enemies
12: Animals
3: Love
14: Accidental Documentaries
15: Dawn
16: Economy
17: Name Change / No Theme
18: Liars
19: Rich Guys
20: From A Distance
21: Factions
22: Adult Children
23: Drama Bug
24: Teenaged Girls
25: Basketball
26: Father’s Day ‘96
27: The Cruelty of Children
Stories about kids being mean to each other.
28: Detectives
29: Bob Dole
30: Obsession
31: When You Talk About Music
32: Republican Convention
33: A Night at the Wiener Circle
34: Democratic Convention
35: Fall Clearance Sale
36: Letters
37: The Job That Takes Over Your Life
38: Simulated Worlds
39: Halloween
40: Lessons
41: Politics
42: Get Over It!
43: Faustian Bargains
44: Poultry Slam ‘96
45: Media Fringe
46: Sissies
47: Christmas and Commerce
1997
48 Justice
49 Animals
50 Shoulda Been Dead
51 Animals Die, People Ponder
52 Edge of Sanity
53 Valentine’s Day ‘97
54 Sinatra
55 Three Women and the Sex Industry
56 Name Change
57 Delivery
58 Small Towns
59 Fire
60 Business of Death
61 Fiasco!
62 Something for Nothing
63 One Thing
64 Summer
65 Who’s Canadian?
66 Tales from the Net
67 Your Dream, My Nightmare
68 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
69 Dreamhouse
70 Other People’s Mail
71 Defying Sickness
72 Trek
73 Blame it on Art
74 Conventions
75 Kindness of Strangers
76 Mob
77 Pray
78 How Bad is Bad?
79 Stuck in the Wrong Decade
80 Running After Antelope
81 Guns
82 Haunted
83 One of Us
84 Harold
85 Poultry Slam ‘97
86 How To Take Money From Strangers
87 A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
1998
88 Numbers
89 Sibling Rivalry
90 Telephone
91 Escape the Box
92 Leave the Mask On
93 Valentine’s Day ‘98
94 How To
95 Monogamy
96 Pinned by History
97 Death to Wacky
98 Throwing the First Punch
99 I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort Of
100 Radio
101 Niagara
102 Roadtrip!
103 Scenes from a Transplant
104 Music Lessons
105 Take a Negro Home Tonight
106 Father’s Day ‘98
107 Trail of Tears
108 Truth and Lies at Age Ten
109 Notes on Camp
110 Mapping
111 Adventures in the Simple Life
112 Ladies and Germs
113 Windfall
114 Last Words
115 First Day
116 Poultry Slam ‘98
117 You Gonna Eat That?
118 What You Lookin’ At?
1999
119 Lock-up
120 Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
121 Twentieth Century Man
122 Valentine’s Day ‘99
123 High Cost of Living
124 Welcome to America
125 Apocalypse
126 Do-gooders
127 Pimp Anthropology
128 Four Corners
129 Advice
130 Away From Home
131 The Kids Are Alright
132 Father’s Day ‘99
133 Sales
134 We Didn’t
135 Allure of Crime
136 You Are Here
137 The Book that Changed Your Life
138 The Real Thing
139 Ghosts of Elections Past
140 Family Business
141 Invisible Worlds
142 Barbara
143 Sentencing
144 Where Words Fail
145 Poultry Slam ‘99
146 Urban Nature
147 A Teenager’s Guide to God
148 The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
2000
149 Bedside Diplomacy
150 Kids as Adults
151 Primary
152 Crush
153 Dolls
154 In Dog We Trust
155 Hoaxing Yourself
156 What Remains
157 Secret Life of Daytime
158 Mob Mentality
159 Mother’s Day
160 Character Assassination
161 Million Bubbles
162 Moving
163 Can You Fight City Hall… If You Are City Hall?
164 Crime Scene
165 Americans in Paris
166 Nobody’s Family is Going to Change
167 Memo to the People of the Future
168 The Fix Is In
169 Pursuit of Happiness
170 Immigration
171 Election
172 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
173 Three Kinds of Deception
174 Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones
2001
175 Babysitting
176 Two Nations, One President
177 American Limbo
178 Superpowers
179 Cicero
180 Return to Childhood
181 The Friendly Man
182 Cringe
183 The Missing Parents Bureau
184 Neighbors
185 Golden Calf
186 Prom
187 Father’s Day ‘01
188 Kid Logic
189 Hitler’s Yacht
190 Living the Dream
191 I Know What You Did This Summer
192 Meet the Pros
193 Stories of Loss
194 Before and After
195 War Stories
196 Rashomon
197 Before It Had a Name
198 How to Win Friends and Influence People
199 House on Loon Lake
200 Hearts and Minds
201 Them
2002
202 Faith
203 Recordings for Someone
204 81 Words
205 Plan B
206 Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
207 Special Ed
208 Office Politics
209 Didn’t Ask to Be Born
210 Perfect Evidence
211 Naming Names
212 The Other Man
213 Devil On My Shoulder
214 Family Physics
215 Ask An Expert
216 Give the People What They Want
217 Give It to Them
218 Act V
219 High Speed Chase
220 Testosterone
221 Fake I.D.
222 Suckers
223 Classifieds
224 Middlemen
225 Home Movies
226 Reruns
227 Why We Fight
2003
228 You Are So Beautiful… To Me
229 Secret Government
230 Come Back to Afghanistan
231 Time to Save the World
232 The Real Story
233 Starting from Scratch
234 Say Anything
235 The Balloon Goes Up
236 My Two Cents
237 Regime Change
238 Lost in Translation
239 Lost in America
240 I’m In Charge Now
241 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
242 Enemy Camp
243 Later That Same Day
244 MacGyver
245 Allure of the Mean Friend
246 My Pen Pal
247 What Is This Thing?
248 Like It Or Not
249 Garbage
250 The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice
251 Brother’s Keeper
252 Poultry Slam ‘03
253 The Middle of Nowhere
254 Teenage Embed, Part Two
255 This American Life’s Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
2004
256 Living Without
257 What I Should’ve Said
258 Leaving the Fold
259 Promised Land
260 The Facts Don’t Matter
261 The Sanctity of Marriage
262 Miracle Cures
263 Desperate Measures
264 Special Treatment
265 Fake Science
266 I’m From the Private Sector and I’m Here to Help
267 Propriety
268 My Experimental Phase
269 Someone to Watch Over Me
270 Family Legend
271 Best Interests
272 Big Tent
273 Put Your Heart In It
274 Enemy Camp ‘04
275 Two Steps Back
276 Swing Set
277 Apology
278 Spies Like Us
279 Auto Show
2005
280 In Country
281 My Big Break
282 DIY
283 Remember Me
284 Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
285 Know Your Enemy
286 Mind Games
287 Backed Into a Corner
288 Not What I Meant
289 Go Ask Your Father
290 Godless America
291 Reunited (and It Feels So Good)
292 The Arms Trader
293 A Little Bit of Knowledge
294 Image Makers
295 Not What I Signed Up For
296 After the Flood
297 This Is Not My Beautiful House
298 Getting and Spending
299 Back From The Dead
300 What’s in a Number?
301 Settling the Score
302 Strangers in a Strange Land
303 David and Goliath
304 Heretics
305 The “This American Life” Holiday Spectacular
2006
306 Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
307 In the Shadow of the City
308 Star-Crossed Love
309 Cat and Mouse
310 Habeas Schmaebeas
311 A Better Mousetrap
312 How We Talked Back Then
313 Parental Guidance Suggested
314 It’s Never Over
315 The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
316 The Cat Came Back
317 Unconditional Love
318 With Great Power
319 And the Call Was Coming From the Basement
320 What’s In a Number 2006 Edition
321 Sink or Swim
322 Shouting Across the Divide
2007
323 The Super
324 My Brilliant Plan
325 Houses of Ill Repute
326 Quiz Show
327 By Proxy
328 What I Learned from Television
329 Nice Work If You Can Get It
330 My Reputation
331 Habeas Schmabeas 2007
332 The Ten Commandments
333 The Center for Lessons Learned
334 Duty Calls
335 Big Wide World
336 Who Can You Save?
337 Man vs. History
338 The Spokesman
339 Break-Up
340 The Devil in Me
341 How To Talk To Kids
342 How to Rest in Peace
343 Poultry Slam 07
344 The Competition
345 Ties That Bind
346 Home Alone
2008
347 Matchmakers
348 Tough Room
349 Valentine’s Day 2008
350 Human Resources
351 Return to Childhood 2008
352 The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar
353 The Audacity of Government
354 Mistakes Were Made
355 The Giant Pool of Money
356 The Prosecutor
357 The Truth Will Out
358 Social Engineering
359 Life After Death
360 Switched at Birth
361 Fear of Sleep
362 Got You Pegged
363 Enforcers
364 Going Big
365 Another Frightening Show About the Economy
366 A Better Mousetrap 2008
367 Ground Game
368 Who Do You Think You Are?
369 Poultry Slam 2008
370 Ruining It for the Rest of Us
371 Scenes From a Mall
2009
372 The Inauguration Show
373 The New Boss
Enjoy.
Thanks as always, appreciated, especially with RS’ new storage policy, where files over a 25G limit will automatically expire after 90 if not used.
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