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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Reports from the frontlines of the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy. We hear from asylum seekers waiting across the border in Mexico, in a makeshift refugee camp, and from the officers who sent them there to wait in the first place.

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: Courtesy of Ira Glass - Illustration by Lola Dupre)

This week on This American Life, during a time when everyone feels like they’re living in a holding pattern, stories of people stuck in some unusual and extreme situations.

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(Photo: By Feòrag NicBhrìde - Public Domain)

GlassProm While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of it. When they emerged from the dance, they discovered what had happened, and in the weeks that followed, they tried to explain to themselves why the tornado hit where it did. Plus, other stories that happen on Prom Night.

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(Photo: Prom night, Baltimore, 1977 - Barry Glass)

abdurahman family social2 This week on This American Life: In China, Uyghur families are being cut off from the outside world, put into reeducation centers, forced labor, and prisons. A Uyghur man in Turkey had no idea what happened to his family back in China. And then he discovers TikTok. He watches video after video until he sees a little boy who he thinks is his son. What happens next, this week, on This American Life.

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(Photo: Courtesy Abdurahman Tohti)

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This week on This American Life: The Out Crowd – Friday at 7pm & Saturday at 9am

This Week, Stories of People Feeling Stuck on This American Life – Friday at 7pm & Saturdayu at 9am

Prom Night Tornado on This American Life – Friday at 7pm & Saturday at 9am

Stories of People Looking into the Void for Answers on This American Life – Friday at 7pm & Saturday at 9am