This American Life
By This American Life
Each week we choose a theme. Then anything can happen. This American Life is true stories that unfold like little movies for radio. Personal stories with funny moments, big feelings, and surprising plot twists. Newsy stories that try to capture what it’s like to be alive right now. It’s the most popular weekly podcast in the world, and winner of the first ever Pulitzer Prize for a radio show or podcast. Hosted by Ira Glass and produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
Episodes (3)
This American Life
137: The Book That Changed Your Life
A book can change your life in ways that are deeply personal, irrational, and transformative—sometimes even when you never meant for it to. Alexa Young, inspired by her grandfather’s marginalia in Moss Hart’s autobiography *Act One*, didn’t just read the book—
This American Life
888: Not Today, Hades!
Pablo Manriquez, a Washington, D.C. reporter, turned a mysterious package of art supplies into a surreal quest to become the only oil painter in the nation's capital—painting portraits of politicians, including a viral FaceTime with Joe Biden, and attempting t
This American Life
354: Mistakes Were Made
In a powerful rerun of one of This American Life's most haunting episodes, Ira Glass explores the devastating consequences of well-intentioned but catastrophic decisions through the story of Bob Nelson, a TV repairman who became the unlikely leader of a cryoni
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