This American Life

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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.

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schoolbus int wc Cole, the son of one of Ira’s staffers, rides the school bus for the first time. You’ll hear his unbridled glee!

Ira plays a story that exemplifies to him what makes public radio different from other media. It’s a story reported during the recent protests in Hong Kong.

And, you’ll hear a personal story about Ira’s friend Mary Ahearn.

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Support KRCB FM during our Summer Fundraiser, July 25 – August 1. Make your donation now at norcalpublicmedia.org/donate. Thank you!

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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istock 978105562 0 This week, we celebrate pre-coronavirus summertime fun: at amusement parks! Ira Glass takes us behind the scenes at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, where the young staff – coached by a funny, fun-loving boss just a little older than they are – truly seem to love their jobs.

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This week on This American Life: Sandy moves out of the city, wanting a life away from other people. The guide for their new life is their Uncle Bob. He was in and out of institutions, diagnosed with schizophrenia, until finally deciding to live in isolation in the desert...where he thrived. The upside to being alone this week, on This American Life.

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yu show image ig As China's new national security law tightens its control over Hong Kong this week, we return to our episode about last fall's anti-government protests and check in to see how people are responding.

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(Photo by: Yu)

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