This American Life

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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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This week on This American Life: Growing up in Russia as the only black person in her town, Yelena always dreamed about who she might date if she came to America. And then one day, she gets the chance to visit. That, plus more stories of people for whom home does not exactly feel like home this week on This American Life.

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!

We return to our story about Abdi Nor from 2015, with some news about his life today. When we first broadcast the story, Abdi was a Somali refugee living in Kenya desperately trying – against long odds – to get to the United States. Then he got the luckiest break of his life: he won a lottery that puts him on a short list for a U.S. visa. But before he could cash in his golden ticket, the police started raiding his neighborhood, targeting refugees.

(Photo: Abdi Nor in Nairobi - Leo Hornak)

This week on This American Life: In these dark, combative times, an attempt at radical counterprogramming. It’s a show made up entirely of delight. Stories about the young, the old, the animals… stories of delight lost, delight found, and delight reclaimed. An hour of delight, this week, on This American Life.

tal fivewomen final 3 A different kind of #MeToo story, about several women who worked for the same man. They tell us not only about their troubling encounters with him, but also about their lives beforehand. Who were they when they entered the workplace, and how did their personal histories shape the way they dealt with his harassment?

(Photo: Lauren Tamaki – via This American Life)

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When Home Does Not Exactly Feel Like Home on This American Life – Friday at 7pm & Saturday at 9am

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This Week, Stories About Delight on This American Life – Friday at 7pm & Saturday at 9am

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