List of 2003 This American Life episodes

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In 2003, there were twenty-eight This American Life episodes.

  • 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
  • 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 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 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 232 – The Real Story
  • 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 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 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 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 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 238 – Lost in Translation
  • Episode 239 – Lost in America
  • 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 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 Waving - 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 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 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 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 245 – Allure of the Mean Friend
  • Episode 246 – My Pen Pal
    • Act 1: Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"? - Ira Glass
    • Act 2: Pen Pal Husband - Janice Powell
  • 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 248 – Like It Or Not
  • 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 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 251 – Brother's Keeper
  • 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 253 – The Middle of Nowhere
  • Episode 254 – Teenage Embed, Part Two
  • 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

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