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.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 19 hours 45 minutes
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710: Umbrellas Down
As China's new national security law tightens its control over Hong Kong, we return to our episode about last fall's anti-government protests and check in to see how people are responding.
709: The Reprieve
How Covid-19 has changed the nurses and doctors at one hospital in Detroit, and their city.
684: Burn It Down
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708: Here, Again
We hear what different people said and did one weekend in reaction to the killing of George Floyd.
707: We Are in the Future
In this moment of sorrow, protest, and rage, we offer this as a break from the dreadful present: our show about Afrofuturism.
705: Time Out
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704: Our Pulitzer-Winning Episode
What the Trump administration’s "Remain in Mexico" policy really means, on the ground, at the Mexican border.
703: Stuck!
During a time when a lot of us feel like we are living in a holding pattern, stories of people feeling stuck.
186: Prom
While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town.
702: One Last Thing Before I Go
Ordinary people make last ditch efforts to get through to their loved ones.