List of This American Life episodes

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This is a list of This American Life episodes by year and episode number. All of the episodes can be streamed via a custom Adobe Flash player from the TAL Show Archive. The current week's episode can be downloaded via MP3 for free for seven days starting on the Monday after the broadcast. All episodes are available for purchase from the iTunes Store or Audible.com.

Contents: 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002 – 2001 – 2000 – 1999 – 1998 – 1997 – 1996 – 1995

[edit] 2006

  • Episode 322 – Shouting Across the Divide
  • Episode 321 – Sink or Swim
  • Episode 320 – What's In a Number – 2006 Edition
    • Show description: Discussion about a new study by the The Lancet about the number of Iraqis who have died since the US invasion.
    • Prologue: Ira Glass talks with ordinary Iraqis about life after the invasion.
    • Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth and Statistics — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: Not Just a Number
    • Act 3: The War This Time — Ira Glass
    • Music interlude: The Roots, Somebody's Gotta Do It
  • Episode 319 – And the Call Was Coming From the Basement
    • Show description: Scary stories that are all true.
    • Prologue: Ira Glass and Albert Donnay read a ghost story from a 1921 medical journal.
    • Act 1: The Hills Have Eyes — Alex Blumberg
    • Music interlude: 45 Grave, Evil
    • Act 2: The Hitcher — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: And the Call Was Coming from ... the Listeners!
    • Act 4: Graveyard Shift — David Sedaris
    • Music interlude: Gnarls Barkley, The Boogie Monster
  • Episode 318 – With Great Power
    • Act 1: Objects in Side View Mirror Are Truer Than They Appear — Alex Kotlowitz
    • Act 2: Unwelcome Wagon — Ira Glass
    • Music interlude: Dave Parker, I Got to Get Away
    • Act 3: Waiting for Joe — Shalom Auslander
    • Music interlude: Bettye Lavette, The High Road
  • Episode 317 – Unconditional Love
  • Episode 316 – The Cat Came Back
  • Episode 315 – The Parrot and the Potbellied Pig
  • Episode 314 – It's Never Over
    • Act 1: Who Takes the Class Out of Class Reunion — Jon Ronson
    • Act 2: Life Without Leanne — Larry Doyle
    • Act 3: Deal of a Lifetime — Sarah Koenig
    • Act 4: One Word: Timing — Tami Sagher
  • Episode 313 – Parental Guidance Suggested
    • Act 1: Two Possibilities, Both Bad — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: The Grandma Letters — Will Seymour, Mortified
    • Act 3: My Angel's in the Centerfolds — Thea Chaloner
  • Episode 312 – How We Talked Back Then
    • Show description: A return to two live shows from the TAL archive including show 36, "Letters" and show 66, "Tales from the Net".
    • Act 1: Letters
    • Act 2: Internet
  • Episode 311 – A Better Mousetrap
    • Act 1: Mother of Invention — Karen Sosnoski
    • Act 2: Everything Must Go — Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
    • Act 3: What Would Fill-in-the-Blank Do? — Brett Martin
    • Act 4: Squashing the Creative Spirit — Andy Raskin
  • Episode 310 – Habeas Schmaebeas
    • Act 1: There's No U.S. in Habeas — Jack Hitt
    • Act 2: September 11th, 1660 — Jon Ronson
    • Act 3: We Interrogate the Detainees — Jack Hitt
  • Episode 309 – Cat and Mouse
    • Act 1: El Gato Y El Ratoncito — James Spring
    • Act 2: Hello Kitty — David Sedaris
    • Act 3: Looking for Loveseats in all the Wrong Places — David Segal
    • Act 4: Spray My Name, Spray My Name — Brian Thomas Gallagher
  • Episode 308 – Star-Crossed Love
    • Act 1: Prisoner of Love — Shant Kenderian
    • Act 2: The Diary of Mrs. Sam Horrigan — Catalina Puente
    • Act 3: So a Squirrel and a Chipmunk Walk Into a Bar — David Sedaris
  • Episode 307 – In the Shadow of the City
    • Act 1: Brooklyn Archipelago — Brett Martin
    • Act 2: The Thin Gray Line — Cheryl Wagner
    • Act 3: Yes, In My Backyard — Jorge Just
  • Episode 306 – Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
    • Act 1: Luck of the Irish — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Taxation Without Inebriation
    • Act 3: Bad Morning America — Davy Rothbart
    • Act 4: Function of the Heart

[edit] 2005

  • Episode 305 – The "This American Life" Holiday Spectacular
  • Episode 304 – Heretics
    • Act 1: Rise — Russell Cobb
    • Act 2: Fall
  • Episode 303 – David and Goliath
    • Act 1: Lab Rugrats — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Dreams of Distant Factories — Rachel Louise Snyder
    • Act 3: Adventures at Poo Corner — David Sedaris
  • Episode 302 – Strangers in a Strange Land
    • Air date: November 18, 2005
    • Prologue — Ira Glass
    • Act 1: Not Just Tourists, Tourists Who Care — Chris Tenove
    • Act 2: Johnny Get Your Mouse — Amy O'Leary
  • Episode 301 – Settling the Score
    • Air date: November 11, 2005
    • Prologue — Ira Glass
    • Act 1: One Good Deed — Erin Einhorn
    • Act 2: The Things That Money Can Buy — Beau O'Reilly
  • Episode 300 – What's in a Number?
    • Act 1: Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: Not Just a Number — Ryan Gist
    • Act 3: What do we do with these numbers anyway? — Ira Glass
  • Episode 299 – Back From The Dead
    • Act 1: In the Event of An Emergency — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: 'P' Is For Porta-Potty — Sarah Koenig
    • Act 3: Friday Night Floodlights — Lisa Pollak
  • Episode 298 – Getting and Spending
    • Act 1: Mothers of Invention — Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Drozdowska-McGuire
    • Act 2: That Guy — Diane Cook
    • Act 3: Mall Rat — John Hodgman
  • Episode 297 – This Is Not My Beautiful House
    • Show description: Stories from the Houston Astrodome and New Orleans about survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
    • Act 1: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow — Jane Feltes
    • Act 2: No Place Like Dome — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Land Grab — Lisa Pollak
    • Act 4: The Long Way Home — Nick Spitzer
    • Act 5: Water Bed — Alex Kotlowitz
  • Episode 296 – After the Flood
    • Show description: Stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina. (transcript)
    • Prologue: Ira Glass interviews William Nichelson about the role of state and federal authorities
    • Act 1: Middle of Somewhere — Ira Glass interviews Denise Moore, a hurricane survivor
    • Music interlude: Memphis Minnie, When the Levee Breaks
    • Act 2: Forgotten, But Not Lost — Alex Blumberg interviews Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Debbie Zelinsky about an occurrence at the Pontchartrain Expressway bridge
    • Music interlude: Fats Domino, Walking to New Orleans
    • Act 3: Social Studies Lesson — Alex Blumberg interviews Ashley Nelson
    • Ray Charles, Them That Got
    • Act 4: Diaspora — Cheryl Wagner
    • Act 5: Displaced Persons Camp — Lisa Pollak interviews survivors of Hurricane Charley in Florida
  • Episode 295 – Not What I Signed Up For
  • Episode 294 – Image Makers
    • Act 1: Dewey Decibel System — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: Goldstein on Goldstein — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 3: Hearth Shaped Box — Julie Hill
  • Episode 293 – A Little Bit of Knowledge
    • Prologue: Ira Glass and Nancy Updike
    • Act 1: Small Thoughts in Big Brains — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: And Daddy Makes Three — Dan Savage
    • Act 3: Sucker MC-Square — Robert Andrew Powell
    • Act 4: The Art of Adult Conversation — Alexa Junge
  • Episode 292 – The Arms Trader
  • Episode 291 – Reunited (and It Feels So Good)
    • Act 1: Not Your Parents' Parent Trap — Nazanin Rafsanjani
    • Act 2: If By Chance We Meet Again — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: French Kiss — Sarah Vowell
  • Episode 290 – Godless America
    • Act 1: The Substance of Things Hoped For
    • Act 2: God Said, Huh? — Julia Sweeney
  • Episode 289 – Go Ask Your Father
    • Act 1: Make Him Say Uncle — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: My Favorite Martian — Paul Tough
  • Episode 288 – Not What I Meant
    • Act 1: Froggy Goes A-Courtin' — Gabrielle Galanek
    • Act 2: Cat Got Your Tongue — David Sedaris
    • Act 3: Romance Languages — Ben Karlin
  • Episode 287 – Backed Into a Corner
    • Act 1: Working Class Hero Sandwich — Shirleen Holt
    • Act 2: Don't Drive Like My Brother — Jonathan Menjivar
    • Act 3: Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind — Brian Montopoli
  • Episode 286 – Mind Games
    • Act 1: Untitled — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: The Spy Who Loved Everyone — Jorge Just
    • Act 3: Invisible Girl — Scott Carrier
  • Episode 285 – Know Your Enemy
    • Act 1: The Minister Meets the Martyr
    • Act 2: I Am Curious, Jello — David Segal
    • Act 3: Eight Percent of Nothing — Etgar Keret
  • Episode 284 – Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
    • Act 1: The Karachi kid
    • Act 2: Not far from the tree — Amy O'Leary
    • Act 3: Because I'm the mommy, that's why
  • Episode 283 – Remember Me
    • Act 1: Thinking inside the box — David Wilcox
    • Act 2: Where's Walter? — Starlee Kine
    • Act 3: Giving up the ghosts — Shalom Auslander
  • Episode 282 – DIY
    • Show description: An entire episode of a story about the wrongful murder conviction of Collin Warner. After 21 years in prison, Warner's friends managed to prove Warner's innocence and free him from jail.
    • Act 1: Untitled — Anya Bourg
    • Act 2: The story of Collin Warner continues
  • Episode 281 – My Big Break
    • Show description: On personal struggles leading to unexpected success or failure
    • Act 1: Take My Break, Please — David Segal
    • Act 2: What Happens in Baghdad, Stays in Baghadad — Jen Banbury
    • Act 3: Oedipus Hex — Shalom Auslander
  • Episode 280 – In Country

[edit] 2004

  • Episode 279 – Auto Show
    • Show description: On dB drag racing, vehicle theft, car salespeople, and elderly drivers
    • Act 1: Crunk in the Trunk — David Segal
    • Act 2: Baby You Can't Drive My Car — Jamie Kitman
    • Act 3: Objects in the Rear View Mirror My Be Alarmingly Familiar — Curtis Sittenfeld
    • Act 4: Not Your Father's Chevrolet Salesman — Sarah Koenig
    • Act 5: End of the Road — Lisa Pollack
  • Episode 278 – Spies Like Us
    • Show description: On surveillance and eavesdropping by private citizens
    • Act 1: The Lobbyist — Burt Covit
    • Act 2: Life With the Haters — Beth Lisick
    • Act 3: Mystery Shoppers — Lisa Pollak
    • Act 4: Stop Bugging Me — Jane Feltes
  • Episode 277 – Apology
    • Show description: On apologizing
    • Act 1: Repeat After Me — David Sedaris
    • Act 2: Dial "S" for Sorry — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Two Words You Never Want to Hear From Your Doctor — Starlee Kine
  • Episode 276 – Swing Set
    • Show description: On swing voters, who were thought to play an important role in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, which took place a few days after the episode first aired
    • Act 1: My Buddy, Hackett — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Cold-Cock the Vote — Jack Hitt
    • Act 3: One Son, One Vote — Sarah Koenig
    • Act 4: He's Got Legs — Lisa Pollak
  • Episode 275 – Two Steps Back
  • Episode 274 – Enemy Camp '04
  • Episode 273 – Put Your Heart In It
    • Show description: On motivation and passion, especially regarding career choices
    • Act 1: Farm Eye for the Farm Guy — George DeVault
    • Act 2: Diary of a Long-shot — Teal Krech
    • Act 3: Contrails of My Tears — Brett Martin
  • Episode 272 – Big Tent
    • Show description: On the Republican Party during the campaign season preceding the U.S. presidential election, 2004
    • Act 1: Pink Elephant — Patrick Howell
    • Act 2: Right and Righter — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: Indecent Proposal — Shane DuBow
    • Act 4: It's My Party
  • Episode 271 – Best Interests
    • Act 1: I'd Rather Not — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Exodus of One — Alex Kotlowitz
  • Episode 270 – Family Legend
    • Act 1: Take My Cheese, Please — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: We Don't Talk About That — Kevin O'Leary
    • Act 3: Admissions — Katia Dunn
  • Episode 269 – Someone to Watch Over Me
    • Act 1: Doctoring the Doctor — Jo Giese
    • Act 2: The Over-Protective Kind
    • Act 3: Are You a Man or a Mouse? — Aimee Bender
  • Episode 268 – My Experimental Phase
    • Act 1: That's Funny, You Don't Look Jewish — David Segal
    • Act 2: Miami Vices — Sascha Rothchild, Mortified
  • Episode 267 – Propriety
  • Episode 266 – I'm From the Private Sector and I'm Here to Help
  • Episode 265 – Fake Science
    • Show description: On cranks, distortions of science, and the application of pseudo-scientific methods to questions outside the realm of science
    • Act 1: Spook Science — Jake Warga
    • Act 2: Government Science — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: Beauty Science — Adam Sternbergh
    • Act 4: Radio Science — Brent Runyon
  • Episode 264 – Special Treatment
    • Show description: On the ethics and reality of preferential treatment
    • Act 1: Lunchtime with the King of Ketchup — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 2: Except for that One Problem, it's Perfect — Gregory Warner
    • Act 3: Mommie's Psychic Helper — Aimee Phan
    • Act 4: The Way to a Boy's Heart Is Through His Stomach — Lisa Carver
  • Episode 263 – Desperate Measures
    • Act 1: Hasta La Vista, Arnie — Scott Miller
    • Act 2: We Built This City on Rock and Coal — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: The Router Less Taken
    • Act 4: The Rocks at Rock Bottom — Hillary Frank
  • Episode 262 – Miracle Cures
    • Act 1: Changing the Channeler — Davy Rothbart
    • Act 2: The Entities Known as The Food and Drug Administration — Ira Glass
  • Episode 261 – The Sanctity of Marriage
  • Episode 260 – The Facts Don't Matter
    • Act 1: Straight Eyes on the Quirin Guys — Chris Neary
    • Act 2: Mush Polling — Sarah Koenig
  • Episode 259 – Promised Land
    • Act 1: Across the Street from Heaven — Starlee Kine
    • Act 2: Life in the Fast Lane — David Rakoff
    • Act 3: Mystery Train — Hillary Frank
  • Episode 258 – Leaving the Fold
    • Act 1: I've Got a Secret I've Been Hiding From You — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 2: God and Hockey — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Nuns Amok — Susan Drury
  • Episode 257 – What I Should've Said
  • Episode 256 – Living Without
    • Act 1: Do You Hear What I Hear? — Nubar Alexanian
    • Act 2: The Journalism of Deprivation — Sarah Vowell
    • Act 3: The Call of the Great Indoors — Chelsea Merz
    • Act 4: Tin Man — Judith Budnitz

[edit] 2003

  • Episode 255 – This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
    • Act 1: Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom — Ian Brown
    • Act 2: A Christmas Memory
    • Act 3: Secret Santa — Caitlin Shetterly
  • Episode 254 – Teenage Embed, Part Two
  • Episode 253 – The Middle of Nowhere
    • Act 1: No Island Is An Island — Jack Hitt
    • Act 2: On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream — Julie Snyder
  • Episode 252 – Poultry Slam '03
    • Act 1: Duki
    • Act 2: Winged Warrior
    • Act 3: Chicken Diva — Jack Hitt
    • Act 4: Trying to Respect the Chicken — Ira Glass
  • Episode 251 – Brother's Keeper
    • Act 1: Whatever Happened to Baby Cain? — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 2: This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land — Nancy Updike
    • Act 3: Neighbor's Keeper — Robert Kurson
  • Episode 250 – The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice
    • Act 1: Rock, Paper, Computer — Jack Hitt
    • Act 2: Detroit Is In the House — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • Episode 249 – Garbage
    • Act 1: Oh, Mr. San Man — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You — Luis Urrea
    • Act 3: "I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."'
  • Episode 248 – Like It Or Not
  • Episode 247 – What Is This Thing?
    • Act 1: Inside the Romance Industry — Robin Epstein
    • Act 2: View from the Other Half — Griffin Hansbury
    • Act 3: A Love Story — Sarah Vowell
  • Episode 246 – My Pen Pal
    • Act 1: Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"? — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Pen Pal Husband — Janice Powell
  • Episode 245 – Allure of the Mean Friend
    • Act 1: Return to the Scene of the Crime — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 2: Does Niceness Pay? — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: And What's Going on With You? — Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan
    • Act 4: Keeping It in the Family — Bernard Cooper
  • Episode 244 – MacGyver
    • Act 1: Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Files in Cakes, Ha! — Angelo
    • Act 3: So Crazy It Just Might Work — Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Act 4: A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable — Susan Burton
  • Episode 243 – Later That Same Day
    • Act 1: The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends — Scott Carrier
    • Act 2: Scrapbook, the Verb
    • Act 3: Slingshot — John Hodgman
  • Episode 242 – Enemy Camp
    • Act 1: Confession — Carl Marziali
    • Act 2: Blood Agent — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: And I Love Her — Etgar Keret
    • Act 4: Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership — Blue Chevigny
  • Episode 241 – 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
    • Act 1: Don't I Know You? — Tate Donovan and Starlee Kine
    • Act 2: No of Course I Know You — Scott Carrier
    • Act 3: It's Commerce that Brings Us Together — Susan Drury
    • Act 4: The Sound of One Hand Waiving — Patty Martin
    • Act 5: The Sound of No Hands Clapping — Viki Merrick, Eric Kipp, and Jay Allison
    • Act 6: Reaching Out with Radio — "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
    • Act 7: Up Where the Air is Clear — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 8: The Greatest Dog Name in the World — ?Valion Loetz?, ?Paris Loetz? and ?Katie Adone?
    • Act 9: Of Dogs and Men — Elaine Boehm and Jim Sultzer
    • Act 10: Untitled — Neo-Futurists
    • Act 11: Etiquette Lesson — David Sedaris
    • Act 12: To Tell the Truth — Brent Runyon
    • Act 13: More Lies — Catharyn and Ira Glass
    • Act 14: Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids — Ira Glass
    • Act 15: Mr. Prediction — David Rakoff
    • Act 16: That One Guy at the Office — ?Drewdanna Gustafson?
    • Act 17: You Can't Choose Your Gift — ?Richard Carry? and Jim Sultzer
    • Act 18: Party Talk — Chuck Klosterman
    • Act 19: The Hard Life at the Top — David Lipsky
    • Act 20: The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage — Ira Glass
  • Episode 240 – I'm In Charge Now
    • Act 1: It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild — David Sedaris
    • Act 2: Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues — Katy Vine
    • Act 3: You Talkin' to Me? — Adam Davidson
  • Episode 239 – Lost in America
  • Episode 238 – Lost in Translation
  • Episode 237 – Regime Change
    • Act 1: Unconquerable — Katie Davis
    • Act 2: Or Give Me Death — Sarah Koenig
    • Act 3: The Heart is a Lonely Junta — Ira Glass and Jeffrey Brown
  • Episode 236 – My Two Cents
    • Act 1: Dave Knows — Susan Drury
    • Act 2: Stock Making Sense — Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: A View from the Mop — Greg Tate
  • Episode 235 – The Balloon Goes Up
    • Act 1: Bombs over Baghdad — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army
    • Act 3: What's French for French Fries? — David Sedaris
    • Act 4: Fighting the Previous War — Sarah Vowell
    • Act 5: What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime — Lee Sandlin
    • Act 6: Lessons from Ancient Wars — Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
  • Episode 234 – Say Anything
    • Act 1: How to Write a Note — Jake Warga
    • Act 2: The Battle of Words vs Fear — Michael Bernard Loggins
    • Act 3: When a City Opens its Big Mouth
    • Act 4: Wedding Bells and Door Bells — Elizabeth Gilbert and Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 233 – Starting from Scratch
    • Act 1: Puppy Love — Molly FitzSimons
    • Act 2: Making Money the Old Fashioned Way — Mary Beth Kirshner
    • Act 3: The First Starting from Scratch — Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 232 – The Real Story
  • Episode 231 – Time to Save the World
    • Act 1: The Rundown — Starlee Kine
    • Act 2: Heather Help Me — Jessica Riddle
    • Act 3: Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread
    • Act 4: The Science of Good and Evil — Susan Drury
  • Episode 230 – Come Back to Afghanistan
    • Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
    • Act 1: Teenage Embed — Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
  • Episode 229 – Secret Government
    • Act 1: Until the End of the War — Jack Hitt
    • Act 2: Secret Trials and Secret Deportations — David Kestenbaum
    • Act 3: Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court — Blue Chevigny
  • Episode 228 – You Are So Beautiful... To Me
    • Act 1: Polly Wants More Than a Cracker — Veronica Chater
    • Act 2: On the Border Between Good and Bad — Russell Banks

[edit] 2002

  • Episode 227 – Why We Fight
  • Episode 226 – Reruns
  • Episode 225 – Home Movies
    • Act 1: The Big Night — Jonathan Goldstein
    • Act 2: The Kids Stay in the Picture — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: A Half-Million Home Videos Can't be Wrong — Ira Glass
    • Act 4: The Cinema of Upward Mobility — Susan Burton
    • Act 5: Untitled — David Sedaris
  • Episode 224 – Middlemen
    • Act 1: Show Me the Monet
    • Act 2: Stuck inside of Memphis
    • Act 3: What it Takes to Tromp Through the Desert — Wendy Dorr
  • Episode 223 – Classifieds
  • Episode 222 – Suckers
    • Act 1: No Receipt, No Surrender — "Jen"
    • Act 2: The Stereo Type — Shane DuBow
    • Act 3: Suckers in the Promised Land — Adam Davidson
    • Act 4: Mother Sucker — Heather O'Neill
  • Episode 221 – Fake I.D.
  • Episode 220 – Testosterone
    • Act 1: Life at Zero — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Infinite Gent
    • Act 3: Contest-osterone
    • Act 4: Learning to Shut Up — Miriam Toews
  • Episode 219 – High Speed Chase
    • Act 1: Cowboys and Indians, Part 1 — Susan Burton
    • Act 2: Cowboys and Indians, Part 2 — Susan Burton
  • Episode 218 – Act V
  • Episode 217 – Give It to Them
  • Episode 216 – Give the People What They Want
    • Act 1: Let Them Eat Cake, Wedding Cake — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: God Shed his Grace on Thee — Jack Hitt
    • Act 3: Have Paint, Will Travel — Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Dorn
    • Act 4: Handing People Their Dreams — Ali Davis
    • Act 5: What Daddy Wants — Curtis Sittenfeld
  • Episode 215 – Ask An Expert
    • Act 1: An Epidemic Created by Doctors — Alix Spiegel
    • Act 2: Not Stella Adler, Just Stellllaaah — Jod Kaftan
  • Episode 214 – Family Physics
    • Act 1: Occam's Razor — Cris Beam
    • Act 2: The Trajectory and Force of Bodies in Orbit — Jon Ronson
    • Act 3: Conservation of Energy and Matter — David Sedaris
  • Episode 213 – Devil On My Shoulder
    • Act 1: It's Fun to Make Hell on Earth — George Ratliff
    • Act 2: Sixteen Candles Can Lead to a Lot of Fire — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Devil in Angel's Clothing, or Is It the Other Way Around? — Sarah Koenig
  • Episode 212 – The Other Man
  • Episode 211 – Naming Names
    • Act 1: How Britain Nearly Saved America — Jon Ronson
    • Act 2: One Crucible Leads to Another — Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
    • Act 3: Beating the Erasers — Susan Drury
  • Episode 210 – Perfect Evidence
    • Act 1: Hawks and Rabbits — Shane DuBow
    • Act 2: Snitch
  • Episode 209 – Didn't Ask to Be Born
    • Act 1: The chronicle of a family that unravelled — Debra Gwartney and Sandy Tolan
    • Act 2: Untitled — Brent Runyon
  • Episode 208 – Office Politics
    • Act 1: Hang In There Kitty Cat, It's Almost Friday — Starlee Kine
    • Act 2: Sheetcakes in the Conference Room, Whiskey After Dark — David Rakoff
    • Act 3: When the Job That Takes You Off the Streets Is On The Streets — Julie Snyder
  • Episode 207 – Special Ed
    • Act 1: Get on the Mic — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Black Hole Son
    • Act 3: Walkout — Veronica Chater
  • Episode 206 – Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
    • Act 1: Untitled — Wendy Dorr, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass
  • Episode 205 – Plan B
  • Episode 204 – 81 Words
    • Show description: Devoted entirely to Alix Spiegel's feature on the removal of homosexuality as a form of mental illness from the DSM-II during the 1973 meeting of the APA. Spiegel won the 2002 Livingston Award for National Reporting for this episode.
    • Act 1: Untitled — Alix Spiegel
    • Act 2: Untitled — Alix Spiegel
  • Episode 203 – Recordings for Someone

[edit] 2001

  • Episode 202 – Faith
    • Act 1: Adventures in Turning the Other Cheek — Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Does Size Matter If You're Talking About a Cross? — Josh Noel and Alex Blumberg
    • Act 3: The Epiphany Biz — Bill Lychak
    • Act 4: First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother, and Then Come and Offer Thy Gift — Susie Putz-Drury
  • Episode 201 – Them
    • Act 1: My Friend the Extremist — Jon Ronson
    • Act 2: Don't They Know It's Christmas After All — David Sedaris
    • Act 3: Newfies — Chris Brookes
  • Episode 200 – Hearts and Minds
    • Act 1: Don't Believe Anything You Hear on the Radio — Nancy Updike
    • Act 2: Live on Stage by the Sword, Die on Stage by the Sword — Margy Rochlin
  • Episode 199 – House on Loon Lake
    • Act 1: Part One — Adam Beckman
    • Act 2: Part Two — Adam Beckman
  • Episode 198 – How to Win Friends and Influence People
    • Act 1: To Make a Friend, Be a Friend — David Sedaris
    • Act 2: Stay in Touch — Tami Sagher
    • Act 3: People Like You If You Put a Lot of Time Into Your Appearance — Luke Burbank
    • Act 4: Just Be Yourself — Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 197 – Before It Had a Name
    • Act 1: Mr. Boder Vanishes — Carl Marziali
    • Act 2: Of Course I Remember Your Name — Heather O'Neill
    • Act 3: A Bad Day for Plates — Laura Tangusso
    • Act 4: You Call That Love? — Jonathan Goldstein
  • Episode 196 – Rashomon
    • Act 1: 1001 Arabian Nightly Newscasts — Julie Snyder
    • Act 2: Bombs over Baghdad — Issam Shukri
    • Act 3: Toto, I don't Think We're in Vietnam Anymore — Alex Blumberg
  • Episode 195 – War Stories
    • Act 1: The Situation in the Field — Ira Glass and Tom Gjelten
    • Act 2: Letters to Home — Andrew Carroll and Estelle Lynch
    • Act 3: What Peacetime Forgets About Wartime — Lee Sandlin
    • Act 4: Are You Ready? — Scott Carrier
  • Episode 194 – Before and After
    • Act 1: In the After of Before and After — Lynn Simpson
    • Act 2: Watching from the River's Edge — David Rakoff
    • Act 3: Notes from the Underground — Haruki Murakami
    • Act 4: Far From Home — David Sedaris
    • Act 5: U.S.A., Me-S.A. — Ira Glass and Shirley Jahad
  • Episode 193 – Stories of Loss
    • Act 1: The Disappearance — Genevieve Jurgensen
    • Act 2: Look for the Union Label — Adrian LeBlanc
    • Act 3: Ashes — David Sedaris
  • Episode 192 – Meet the Pros
    • Act 1: Crispy with the Rock — Joel Lovell
    • Act 2: Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Martha My Dear — David Rakoff
  • Episode 191 – I Know What You Did This Summer
  • Episode 190 – Living the Dream
    • Act 1: Girls Girls Girls — Cris Beam
    • Act 2: Agent to the Stars — John Hodgman
    • Act 3: Airel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me! — Ira Glass and Adam Davidson
  • Episode 189 – Hitler's Yacht
    • Act 1: Part One — Alix Spiegel
    • Act 2: Part Two — Alix Spiegel
  • Episode 188 – Kid Logic
    • Act 1: Baby Scientists with Faulty Data
    • Act 2: The Game Ain't Over til the Fatso Man Sings — Howie Chackowicz
    • Act 3: Werewolves in Their Youth — Michael Chabon
    • Act 4: One Brain Shrinks, Another Brain Grows — Julie Hill
  • Episode 187 – Father's Day '01
    • Act 1: Driving the Divorcemobile
    • Act 2: And If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine — Ian Brown
    • Act 3: Legend of a Bankrobber's Son — Nick Flynn
  • Episode 186 – Prom
    • For her segment Tornado Prom Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
    • Act 1: Tornado Prom — Susan Burton
    • Act 2: Save the Last Dance for Me... Again — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Only Two Things Are Certain in Life: Death and Tuxes
    • Act 4: Only One Thing Missing — Wendy Dorr — Prom in Racine, Wisconsin
  • Episode 185 – Golden Calf
    • Act 1: Bowing Before the Famous — Ann Hepperman
    • Act 2: Thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me — Ira Glass
    • Act 3: Don't Have a Golden Cow — Iggy Scam
  • Episode 184 – Neighbors
  • Episode 183 – The Missing Parents Bureau
  • Episode 182 – Cringe
  • Episode 181 – The Friendly Man
  • Episode 180 – Return to Childhood
  • Episode 179 – Cicero
  • Episode 178 – Superpowers
  • Episode 177 – American Limbo
  • Episode 176 – Two Nations, One President
  • Episode 175 – Babysitting
    • For their segment Yes There Is A Baby Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary

[edit] 2000

  • Episode 174 – Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones
  • Episode 173 – Three Kinds of Deception
  • Episode 172 – 24 Hours at the Golden Apple
  • Episode 171 – Election
  • Episode 170 – Immigration
  • Episode 169 – Pursuit of Happiness
  • Episode 168 – The Fix Is In
  • Episode 167 – Memo to the People of the Future
  • Episode 166 – Nobody's Family is Going to Change
  • Episode 165 – Americans in Paris
  • Episode 164 – Crime Scene
  • Episode 163 – Can You Fight City Hall... If You Are City Hall?
  • Episode 162 – Moving
  • Episode 161 – Million Bubbles
  • Episode 160 – Character Assassination
  • Episode 159 – Mother's Day
  • Episode 158 – Mob Mentality
  • Episode 157 – Secret Life of Daytime
  • Episode 156 – What Remains
  • Episode 155 – Hoaxing Yourself
  • Episode 154 – In Dog We Trust
  • Episode 153 – Dolls
  • Episode 152 – Crush
  • Episode 151 – Primary
  • Episode 150 – Kids as Adults
  • Episode 149 – Bedside Diplomacy

[edit] 1999

  • Episode 148 – The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Suit
  • Episode 147 – A Teenager's Guide to God
  • Episode 146 – Urban Nature
  • Episode 145 – Poultry Slam '99
  • Episode 144 – Where Words Fail
  • Episode 143 – Sentencing
  • Episode 142 – Barbara
  • Episode 141 – Invisible Worlds
  • Episode 140 – Family Business
  • Episode 139 – Ghosts of Elections Past
  • Episode 138 – The Real Thing
  • Episode 137 – The Book that Changed Your Life
  • Episode 136 – You Are Here
  • Episode 135 – Allure of Crime
  • Episode 134 – We Didn't
  • Episode 133 – Sales
  • Episode 132 – Father's Day '99
  • Episode 131 – The Kids Are Alright
  • Episode 130 – Away From Home
  • Episode 129 – Advice
  • Episode 128 – Four Corners
  • Episode 127 – Pimp Anthropology
  • Episode 126 – Do-gooders
  • Episode 125 – Apocalypse
  • Episode 124 – Welcome to America
  • Episode 123 – High Cost of Living
  • Episode 122 – Valentine's Day '99
  • Episode 121 – Twentieth Century Man
  • Episode 120 – Be Careful Who You Pretend to Be
  • Episode 119 – Lock-up

[edit] 1998

  • Episode 118 – What You Lookin' At?
  • Episode 117 – You Gonna Eat That?
  • Episode 116 – Poultry Slam '98
  • Episode 115 – First Day
    • Act 1: Lost at Sea — Dishwasher Pete
    • Act 2: Squirrel Cop
    • Act 3: Bad Sex With Bud Kemp — Sandra Tsing Loh
    • Act 4: When Businesses Act Like Humans — Alex Blumberg
  • Episode 114 – Last Words
  • Episode 113 – Windfall
  • Episode 112 – Ladies and Germs
  • Episode 111 – Adventures in the Simple Life
  • Episode 110 – Mapping
  • Episode 109 – Notes on Camp
  • Episode 108 – Truth and Lies at Age Ten
  • Episode 107 – Trail of Tears
  • Episode 106 – Father's Day '98
  • Episode 105 – Take a Negro Home Tonight
  • Episode 104 – Music Lessons
  • Episode 103 – Scenes from a Transplant
  • Episode 102 – Roadtrip!
  • Episode 101 – Niagara
  • Episode 100 – Radio
  • Episode 99 – I Enjoy Being a Girl, Sort Of
  • Episode 98 – Throwing the First Punch
  • Episode 97 – Death to Wacky
  • Episode 96 – Pinned by History
  • Episode 95 – Monogamy
  • Episode 94 – How To
  • Episode 93 – Valentine's Day '98
  • Episode 92 – Leave the Mask On
  • Episode 91 – Escape the Box
  • Episode 90 – Telephone
  • Episode 89 – Sibling Rivalry
  • Episode 88 – Numbers

[edit] 1997

  • Episode 87 – A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
  • Stories from David Sedaris's book Holidays on Ice (ISBN 0-316-77998-9), recorded live at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles
    • Prologue — Ira Glass
    • Act 1: Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol — read by David Sedaris
    • Act 2: Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family! — read by Julia Sweeney
    • Act 3:
      • Dickens vs. Sedaris — Ira Glass, John Jordan, and David Sedaris
      • Based on a True Story — read by Matt Malloy
  • Episode 86 – How To Take Money From Strangers
  • Episode 85 – Poultry Slam '97
  • Episode 84 – Harold
  • Episode 83 – One of Us
  • Episode 82 – Haunted by Ghosts
  • Episode 81 – Guns
  • Episode 80 – Running After Antelope
  • Episode 79 – Stuck in the Wrong Decade
  • Episode 78 – How Bad is Bad?
  • Episode 77 – Pray
  • Episode 76 – Mob
  • Episode 75 – Kindness of Strangers
  • Episode 74 – Conventions
  • Episode 73 – Blame it on Art
  • Episode 72 – Trek
  • Episode 71 – Defying Sickness
  • Episode 70 – Other People's Mail
  • Episode 69 – Dreamhouse
  • Episode 68 – Lincoln's Second Inaugural
  • Episode 67 – Your Dream, My Nightmare
  • Episode 66 – Tales from the Net
  • Episode 65 – Who's Canadian
  • Episode 64 – Summer
  • Episode 63 – One Thing
  • Episode 62 – Something for Nothing
  • Episode 61 – Fiasco!
  • Episode 60 – Business of Death
  • Episode 59 – Fire
  • Episode 58 – Small Towns
  • Episode 57 – Delivery
  • Episode 56 – Name Change
  • Episode 55 – Three Women and the Sex Industry
  • Episode 54 – Sinatra
  • Episode 53 – Valentine's Day '97
  • Episode 52 – Edge of Sanity
  • Episode 51 – Animals Die, People Ponder
  • Episode 50 – Shoulda Been Dead
  • Episode 49 – Animals
    • Prologue
    • Act 1: Food Chain in a New York Apartment — Paul Tough
    • Act 2: More Animals Eating Other Animals — David Sedaris
    • Act 3: The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals — Scott Carrier
  • Episode 48 – Justice

[edit] 1996

  • Episode 47 – Christmas and Commerce
  • Episode 46 – Sissies
  • Episode 45 – Media Fringe
  • Episode 44 – Poultry Slam '96
  • Episode 43 – Faustian Bargains
  • Episode 42 – Get Over It!
  • Episode 41 – Politics
  • Episode 40 – Lessons
  • Episode 39 – Halloween
  • Episode 38 – Simulated Worlds
  • Episode 37 – The Job that Takes Over Your Life
  • Episode 36 – Letters
  • Episode 35 – Fall Clearance Sale
  • Episode 34 – Democratic Convention
  • Episode 33 – A Night at the Wiener's Circle
    • This episode is about the unique culture in a Chicago fast food restaurant.
    • Prologue — New introduction recorded in 2006, saying this show was never broadcast nationally — Ira Glass
    • Ira records various colorful personalities at the Wiener's Circle.
  • Episode 32 – Republican Convention
  • Episode 31 – When You Talk About Music
  • Episode 30 – Obsession
  • Episode 29 – Bob Dole
  • Episode 28 – Detectives
  • Episode 27 – The Cruelty of Children
  • Episode 26 – Father's Day '96
  • Episode 25 – Basketball
  • Episode 24 – Teenaged Girls
  • Episode 23 – Drama Bug
  • Episode 22 – Adult Children
  • Episode 21 – Factions
  • Episode 20 – From a Distance
  • Episode 19 – Rich Guys
  • Episode 18 – Liars
  • Episode 17 – Name Change/No Theme
  • Episode 16 – Economy
  • Episode 15 – Dawn
  • Episode 14 – Accidental Documentaries
  • Episode 13 – Love
  • Episode 12 – Animals
    • Prologue
    • Act 1: Food Chain in a New York Apartment — Paul Tough
    • Act 2: More Animals Eating Other Animals — David Sedaris
    • Act 3: The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals — Scott Carrier
  • Episode 11 – Enemies
  • Episode 10 – Double Lives
  • Episode 9 – Julia Sweeney
  • Episode 8 – New Year

[edit] 1995

  • Episode 7 – Quitting
    • Prologue/Act 1 — Ira Glass talks to Evan Harris about Quitter Quarterly zine, which she founded with Shelley Ross, and the nature of "the quit" (20:45)
    • Ella Fitzgerald, Don't Fence Me In
    • Act 2 — Sandra Tsing Loh (7:40)
    • Brave Combo, Do Something Different (Disappear)
    • Act 3: Shut Up, Little Man — Ira Glass on an unusual CD of bickering and fighting (8:20)
    • Act 4.1: Work — Lisa Buscani (5:55)
    • Robert Metrick, The Calendar Song (3:15)
    • Act 4.2: Love — Lisa Buscani (3:50)
    • Act 5: Farewell Samba — Dwight Okita reads this poem from his book Crossing with the Light (ISBN 0-9624287-9-5) (1:35)
    • Act 6: Poetry of Departures — a poem by Philip Larkin, read by Ira Glass (1:15)
  • Episode 6 – Christmas
  • Episode 5 – Anger & Forgiveness
  • Episode 4 – Vacations — May not be in order, as it presents itself as "This American Life" rather than "Your Radio Playhouse", and the transition does not occur until Episode 17.
  • Episode 3 – Poultry Slam
  • Episode 2 – Small Scale Sin
  • Episode 1 – New Beginnings
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