This American Life

Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back. They'll explain what happened this week, including what regulators could've done to prevent this financial crisis from happening in the first place. To...

If you read about us in The New York Times, or heard a segment from The Giant Pool of Money on your local station's fundraising drive, you can check out the full episode here. You can listen for free at your computer, or download a copy of the show for 95 cents. W...

Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts. Broadcast September 26 - September 28.

To paraphrase Meat Loaf, two out of five ain't bad.  On Saturday we won Emmys for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming.  Ira writes:Up until the weekend of the ceremony, we'd all been kind of shrugging it off. We...

Erin Einhorn grew up begging her mother to tell her all about the remarkable story of how she survived World War Two, thanks to a Polish woman named Honorata Skowronski, who risked her life. But her mother didn't like to talk about it. And somehow, her family didn't consider Honorata a hero...

Three guys who go by the names Professor So and So, Jojobean and YeaWhatever spend part of each day running elaborate cons on Internet scammers...

We all have that thing in us: a voice telling us to do or think something we shouldn't. In this episode, stories of people trying to exorcize that voice. An Iraq War veteran comes home with an aversion to all Muslims and decides to systematically defeat his own bigotry...

A big thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered our  recent T-Shirt design contest! We were incredibly impressed by the  designs.And the winner is...Brian Kaas of San Francisco, CA! ...

A big thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered our  recent T-Shirt design contest! We were incredibly impressed by the  designs.And the winner is...Brian Kaas of San Francisco, CA! ...

 A big thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who entered our recent T-Shirt design contest! We were incredibly impressed by the designs.And the winner is...Brian Kaas of San Francisco, CA!...

Stories of people trying to get rich quick, or otherwise make something for nothing. As everyone knows, there's no such thing as something for nothing. You always pay a price. Broadcast August 29 - August 31.

We're very proud to announce that the second season of This American Life television has been nominated for five (5!) Emmy Awards, with special attention for the first episode, “Escape”: Outstanding Nonfiction Series: The Producing Team, This American Life Outstanding Cinematography For Non...

Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter—and sets out to prove it. This and other stories about the pitfalls of making snap judgments about others. Broadcast August 22 - August 24.

The world is not divided into two types of people—unless you've just been through a horrible break-up, in which case it's divided between people who understand and people who don't. ...