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In the NYC area? Curious how the radio show is put together?
Head to the 92nd Street Y on Wednesday, September 16th. Ira Glass and most of the This American Life staff will be on stage for a moderated discussion taking you behind the scenes of production. You just might learn, once and for all, what that song was playin...g underneath the second story in that one episode you heard on a road trip in 1996.
Tickets here:
www.92y.org
Budd Mishkin, moderatorHost Ira Glass and other This American Life producers invite you behind the scenes to hear how the long-running public radio and TV show is put together. Glass is also the executive producer of This American Life. ...
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This week: "Kindness of Strangers." (Rerun, originally aired September 1997.) Stories of the kindness of strangers, and where it leads. Also, the unkindness of strangers and where that can lead. All of today's stories take place in the city most people think of as the least kind city in America: New York.
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This American Life After we finished the second season of our television show, we thought it would be cool to put together a special DVD set with all of the episodes from seasons One and Two, plus a book that takes you behind the scenes of the TV show. Now available in our store, here:
www.thislife.org
This American Life, presented by Chicago Public Radio, is an award-winning radio program as well as a television program on the Showtime network. Hosted by Ira Glass, we feature first-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. ...
This American Life Improv Boston takes on TAL:
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An improvised show about a TV show based on a radio show about real life stories. Join New England's top improvisers for this improvised take on the hit radio and TV show "This American Life". Each week ...
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This week: "The Cruelty of Children." Stories about kids being mean to each other. David Sedaris is the loudest and meanest until he goes to summer camp. Author and kindergarten teacher Vivian Paley tells the story of an experiment she conducted in her classroom to make children less cruel. And a fictional story from Ira Sher.
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This American Life David Sedaris DJs a set on KCRW's Guest DJ Project -- tunes, show download and transcript at their site:
www.kcrw.com
Author and This American Life contributor David Sedaris has a deep emotional connection with the music he listens to, often imagining himself in the role of
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This week: "Going Big." Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts.
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This week: "Arms Trader 2009." The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping a man named Hemant Lakhani, whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. In the end, they got Lakhani, red-handed, delivering a missile to a terrorist in New Jersey. The only problem was, nothing in the sting was wh...at it appeared to be. Including the missile.
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This week: 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.
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