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This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.1 million listeners. There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but it's sort of hard to describe. Probably the best way to understand the show is to start at our favorites page, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/favorites , though we do have longer guides to our radio show and our TV show. If you want to dive into the hundreds of episodes we've done over the years, there's an archive of all our old radio shows and listings for all our TV episodes, too.

Ira Glass Host and Executive Producer

Ira Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's headquarters in DC. Over the next 17 years, he worked on nearly every NPR news show and did nearly every production job they had: tape-cutter, desk assistant, newscast writer, editor, producer, reporter, and substitute host. He spent a year in a high school for NPR, and a year in an elementary school, filing stories for All Things Considered. He moved to Chicago in 1989 and put This American Life on the air in 1995.

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21928c1b08adMexicoEQ npr People go on missions to save young girls from danger. But sometimes they get so caught up in the mission that it overshadows the girl herself. This week on This American Life: An earthquake hits Mexico City, a school collapses, and trapped under the rubble is a little girl named Frida. She becomes a national obsession. Workers rush in to pull her out and find something completely unexpected.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Rescue personnel work at the scene of Enrique Rebsamen School, which collapsed when an earthquake struck, to rescue a trapped little girl from the rubble - Marco Ugarte/AP/via NPR)

This country is crawling in presidential candidates right now and they're bumping into each other in Des Moines and yelling over each other in Miami. We hang out with them, in this weird early period of the election when they're easy to walk right up to.

(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

354 tal19 It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds. Harder still was admitting to the family members of people Bob had frozen that he'd screwed up. Badly.

(Photo: A meeting of the scientists who were advising Bob's cryonics society; before they all quit in protest. Bob is in the center, holding the paper – Via This American Life)

schindler final kondrich v2 0 Stories about people who accidentally bump into unsettling facts of history in settings meant to teach them history. What they end up learning is very different from what they’re supposed to.

A bunch of kids who aren’t exactly sure who Jews are get accused of anti-Semitism. It becomes a national scandal, and only one man can make it right. He’s rich. He’s in Hollywood. And he’s a Jew. That’s this week on This American Life.

(Photo by: Michelle Kondrich/via This America Life)

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