Scott Carrier
Contributors List
Scott is one of the most original voices working in radio. The best introduction to his work is a full episode of his stories: 181 The Friendly Man.
12: Animals
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
35: Fall Clearance Sale
Evocative, funny, emotional stories collected over the last few months that haven't fit into any of our regular "theme" shows.
37: The Job That Takes Over Your Life
Radio producer Scott Carrier quit his job at a low moment in his life. His wife left him and took the kids. And he got a job interviewing schizophrenics for some medical researchers. After doing it a while, he began to wonder if he was a...
40: Lessons
Stories from acclaimed storyteller Spalding Gray and others.
42: Get Over It!
Three stories of people trying to forget the past and move on.
45: Media Fringe
Four stories about people struggling at the fringes of our nation's media/music/infotainment industry.
48: Justice
Kitty Felde shows a side of the Yugoslav War Crimes Trials that hasn't been discussed anywhere: a portrait of Americans at the International Tribunal. And other stories.
49: Animals
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
53: Valentine's Day '97
For Valentine's Day, stories about our parents falling in love. And troubles with their love. From Hilton Als, Scott Carrier, Julie Showalter, a magazine column called Men My Mother Dated and others. The idea for this show was inspired by...
64: Summer
Stories for the start of summer. We want summer to be this wonderful break, but so often it fails to deliver. We hear Ron Carlson's short story about a summer job delivering tanks of oxygen to the infirm, Scott Carrier takes a river...
77: Pray
Can the secular world and the religious world understand each other?
80: Running After Antelope
Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature — a battle they don't stand much chance of winning. Most of the show is Scott Carrier's story of trying for twelve years to chase down and catch an antelope by foot.
96: Pinned by History
People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment.
113: Windfall
What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.
141: Invisible Worlds
Stories of people who are trying to make invisible worlds visible, and what happens when you make them visible.
146: Urban Nature
Stories of nature creeping into man-made environments. Of nature sneaking in places where its very presence is a rebuke to the notion that we as a species have things under control.
181: The Friendly Man
A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling stories sound like nothing else on the radio.
191: I Know What You Did This Summer
Stories for the stultifying, torpor-inducing, hottest heat of summer.
195: War Stories
In September 2001, we tried to sort out what the war in Afghanistan would be like, and what our lives would be like during this war.
241: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes
Instead of the usual "each week we choose a theme, and bring you 3 or 4 stories on that theme" business, we throw all that away and bring you 20 stories—yes, 20—in 60 minutes.
243: Later That Same Day
Stories about what the passage of time can do to someone. When each story starts, the world's aligned one way. Years pass—or sometimes just months—and everything's different.
333: The Center for Lessons Learned
Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk—and sometimes yell—about what they've learned in the last few years...including how to stay alive and why the aftermath of a war can be the...
