For a long time, This American Life was only a radio show, one
with a hard-to-describe sound, millions of listeners, and a bunch of
awards. Then, after more than a decade on the radio, we started the
television show, mostly because it seemed like it might be fun. We
continue to produce the weekly radio show, which can be heard on more
than 500 public radio stations around the country (find a station near you) as well as on this
website, through our free podcast. The
television show is on the Showtime network.
The radio and TV shows follow the same format. There's a theme to each
episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true
stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the
show, but, like we said, it's sort of hard to describe. Probably the
best way to understand the show is to start at our favorites page, though we have full guides to
our TV show and our radio show, with clips. If you want to dive
into the hundreds of episodes we've done over the years, there's an archive of all our old radio shows and listings for all our TV episodes, too.
Oh, and we know what you're thinking: radio is so 80 years ago, and TV
is so 50 years ago. Well, what about social networking? That's only 2 or
3 years ago, and we're all over it. Find us on MySpace and Facebook and YouTube,
too. We've also got a bunch of instant messaging icons, wallpapers, and
blog badges for your downloading fun over on our Showtime
site. Go nuts.
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