Friday - 7:00 pm / Saturday 9:00 am
Hosted by Ira Glass
 
TAL logo 2018ira glass 2This 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.
www.thisamericanlife.org

There's a community radio station in a small town in Syria. But in the current war, this town is run by extremist Islamists who decide that it is offensive for women's voices to be on air.

Read more: This Week on This American Life, an Incredible Look Inside Syria - Friday at 7 pm

Satan! In his many surprising manifestations, all around us.

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 / Comcast Cable channel 961 all over the Bay Area / On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

Read more: The Theme That Shall Not Be Named for Show #666 – This American Life, Tonight at 7 pm

We revisit those moments of calm before the storm when things could have gone very differently, but instead, they went to hell.

Read more: This Week on This American Life: Before Things Went to Hell - Friday at 7 pm

Stories from border walls around the world, where one place ends and another begins.

Read more: This Week on This American Life: The Walls – Friday at 7 pm / Saturday at 9 am

  1. The Room of Requirement on This American Life – Tonight at 7 pm
  2. Christmas and Commerce Plus a David Sedaris Classic on This American Life - Tonight at 7 pm
  3. “81 Words” on the Next This American Life – Tonight at 7 pm
  4. Documents You Don't Normally Think of, Showing You Things You Didn't Expect – Tonight at 7 pm
  5. This Week on This American Life, “Little War on the Prairie” – Friday at 7 pm
  6. Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde on This American Life – Tonight at 7 pm

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