This American Life

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Friday - 7:00 pm / Saturday 9:00 am

Hosted by Ira Glass

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.

www.thisamericanlife.org

Stories about people who are worried (or not worried enough!) about what's hurtling unstoppably towards them.

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!

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(Photo: Rennett Stowe, Wikimedia Commons - CC BY 2..0)

timlecks 502254239 People tossing words out into the world impulsively, to ignite and burn over decades.

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(Photo: The Timleck family - Toronto Star via Getty Images)

TAL 600x600 Both inside and outside the justice system, there sometimes stares at us the question: Are your peers really the best people to decide your fate? This week, a story about the problem with peers.

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6 wide 76c5cTAL Sep25 Stories of people who are tied together, but imagine radically different futures. In one case, a movie star and her ex-husband plot against Kim Jong-Il. In another, a woman stalks her doppleganger. And sometimes, one bed is the basis for an entire relationship, even for a man who almost never sees the person who shares his bed.

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(Photo: Courtesy of Choi Eun-Hee/via TAL)

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