This American Life

Aug 26 2005 8

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It's easy to say what we're not. We're not a news show or a talk show or a call-in show. We're not really formatted like other radio shows at all. Instead, we do these stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations where things happen to them.

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Aug 26 2005 58 mins

Stories about being sucked into something against your will. In one story a 9/11 widow finds herself having to comfort another distraught woman on national TV. And in a story by Nick Hornby, a boy is forced to play soccer to save his nation.

Image Makers

Aug 05 2005 58 mins

Sometimes it seems that no matter how hard you try to get people to see you in a certain way, their image of you never quite matches what you had in mind.

A Little Bit of Knowledge

Jul 22 2005 58 mins

Stories about the pitfalls of knowing just a little bit too little.

The Arms Trader

Jul 08 2005 58 mins

The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation, trapping an Indian man named Hemant Lakhani whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. The only problem was nothing in the sting was what it appeared to be.

Reunited (and It Feels So Good)

Jul 01 2005 59 mins

Stories about getting back together with your spouse, your country, your ... Brahmin bull. And how it never goes the way you think it's going to.

Godless America

Jun 03 2005 59 mins

This American Life tries to remember why anyone liked the separation of church and state in the first place.