List of This American Life episodes
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This is a list of This American Life episodes by year and episode number. Most of these episodes can be streamed in RealAudio format from the TAL Show Archive (http://thisamericanlife.org/pages/archives/archivemain.html).
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- Act 1: Make Him Say Uncle — Ira Glass
- Act 2: My Favorite Martian — Paul Tough
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- Act 1: Froggy Goes A-Courtin' — Gabrielle Galanek
- Act 2: Cat Got Your Tongue — David Sedaris
- Act 3: Romance Languages — Ben Karlin
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- Act 1: Working Class Hero Sandwich — Shirleen Holt
- Act 2: Don't Drive Like My Brother — Jonathan Menjivar
- Act 3: Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind — Brian Montopolis
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- Act 1: Untitled — Ira Glass
- Act 2: The Spy Who Loved Everyone — Horat Just
- Act 3: Invisible Girl — Scott Carrier
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- Act 1: The Minister Meets the Martyr
- Act 2: I Am Curious, Jello — David Segal
- Act 3: Eight Percent of Nothing — Etgar Keret
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- Act 1: The Karachi kid
- Act 2: Not far from the tree — Amy O'Leary
- Act 3: Because I'm the mommy, that's why
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- Act 1: Thinking inside the box — David Wilcox
- Act 2: Where's Walter? — Starlee Kine
- Act 3: Giving up the ghosts — Shalom Auslander
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- A story about the wrongful murder conviction of Collin Warner. After 21 years in prison, Warner's friends manged to prove Warner's innocence and free him from jail.
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- On personal struggles leading to unexpected success or failure
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- On the experiences of U.S. United States National Guard reservists and Marines in post-invasion Iraq
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- On dB drag racing, vehicle theft, car salespeople, and elderly drivers
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- On surveillance and eavesdropping by private citizens
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- On apologizing
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- On swing voters, who were thought to play an important role in the U.S. presidential election, 2004, which took place a few days after the episode first aired
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- On the decline of Washington Irving Elementary School in Chicago, once a model for success in public education reforms
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- On the Iraq war and the war on terrorism (a discussion with James Fallows and Richard Perle), the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, and parasites
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- On motivation and passion, especially regarding career choices
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- On the Republican Party during the campaign season preceding the U.S. presidential election, 2004
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- On civility, profanity, and the Federal Communications Commission
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- On the work of private defense contractors in post-invasion Iraq
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- On cranks, distortions of science, and the application of pseudo-scientific methods to questions outside the realm of science
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- On the ethics and reality of preferential treatment
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- Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
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2002
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- Centered around classified ads appearing on the same day in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Reader
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- Devoted entirely to Alix Spiegel's feature on the removal of homosexuality as a form of mental illness from the DSM-II during the 1973 meeting of the APA. Spiegel won the 2002 Livingston Award for International Reporting for this episode.
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2001
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- For her segment Tornado Prom Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
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- For their segment Yes There Is A Baby Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary
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- Entirely devoted to a feature by Sarah Vowell on the Trail of Tears
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- Includes a feature on the Port Chicago disaster
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