List of 1995 This American Life episodes

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In 1995, there were seven This American Life episodes; all were broadcast under the original name of the program Your Radio Playhouse.

Our program's very first broadcast - 1995-11-17
Dinah Washington - "Destination Moon"
Kevin Kelly has a sort of religious experience in Jerusalem and decides to live the next six months of his life to the fullest. This plot was revisited for episode 50 - Shoulda Been Dead
  • Act 2 - Ira Glass (seven minutes)
Ira calls his parents in for advice about broadcasting.
  • Act 3 - Lawrence Steger (11 minutes)
Steger recounts a road trip he and a friend took after hearing about Steger's HIV diagnosis.
The Treniers - "(Uh-Oh) Get Out of the Car"
  • Act 4 - Ed Ryder, interviewed by Ira Glass and Nancy Updike (six minutes)
Ryder was wrongly imprisoned for twenty years and recently released, and he discusses dream of playing music.
Ed Ryder - "God Bless the Child"
This performance was re-broadcast in episode 119 - Lock-Up
Django Reinhardt - "I've Had My Moments"
Small-scale stories on the nature of small-scale sin - 1995-11-24
  • Act 1
Three teenagers who committed credit card fraud tell their stories.
  • Act 2
Playwright Jeff Dorchen writes a play about the previous act.
  • Act 3 - Ira Glass
Glass interviews poet Michael Warr who discusses his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness.
  • Act 4 -
A member of the hacking group MOD discusses his arrest and imprisonment and his success as a criminal.
Stories decrying the wonders of turkeys, chickens, and other fowl - 1995-12-01
Stories about vacations gone awry—or perhaps vacations that never should have happened - 1995-12-08
Stories that reveal the societal "trend" toward anger and away from genuine forgiveness - 1995-12-15
A Christmas radio play by David Sedaris and the Pinetree Gang - 1995-12-22
Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards - 1995-12-29
  • 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)

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