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87: A Very Special Sedaris Christmas 12.19.97
Stories from David Sedaris's book of Christmas stories, Holidays on Ice, read onstage by David, Julia Sweeney and actor Matt Malloy.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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86: How to Take Money from Strangers 12.12.97
Three stories of how to get money from strangers. In every story, the money is made by people who make the strangers feel good about themselves and about their nation.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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85: Poultry Slam 1997 12.5.97
Humans have turned chicken and turkey into what we want them to be. Which means that chickens and turkeys are a mirror of ourselves.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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84: Harold 11.21.97
A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, told two decades after his death. Washington died on November 25, 1987.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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83: One of Us 11.14.97
Stories of outsiders who want to be insiders, and vice versa.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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82: Haunted 10.31.97
Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people.
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80: Running After Antelope 10.17.97
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...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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79: Stuck in the Wrong Decade 10.10.97
People stuck in the wrong decade — or simply carrying a lot of the props from another decade.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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78: How Bad Is Bad? 10.3.97
How bad is bad enough to count? To go to hell?
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75: Kindness of Strangers 9.12.97
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...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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74: Conventions 8.29.97
What happens when people with one common interest gather in monstrous, fluorescent -lit halls for the weekend? Sometimes they drive each other crazy, sometimes they fall in love.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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73: Blame It on Art 8.22.97
The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And also what's so great about art.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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72: Trek 8.8.97
An idiosyncratic first-person travelogue about race relations and tourism from radio producer Rich Robinson and television producer Josh Seftel. Their radio story is about a trip they took to the new...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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71: Defying Sickness 8.1.97
Stories of people trying to do exactly what the doctors say they can't — or shouldn't.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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70: Other People's Mail 7.25.97
When you read other people's mail, you can't help but try to fill in between the lines. You try to decipher the stories of the people who wrote the letters. We hear four stories of people who read...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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69: Dream House 7.18.97
How many of our parents move to some place — some dream house — with some vision of a new life in the new place, and move the family with them, hoping it works out for the kids. Three stories on this...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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68: Lincoln's Second Inaugural 7.4.97
A show for July 4th weekend. We begin with perhaps the most moving, poetic inaugural speech in American history, and look at its legacy today. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln wondered aloud...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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67: Your Dream, My Nightmare 6.27.97
Could it be more obvious? Stories in which someone's dream is someone else's nightmare. All of us get into these situations with strangers, with the people we love most, with our own parents, with...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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66: Tales from the Net 6.6.97
Are people having experiences on the Internet they wouldn't have anywhere else? Several weeks ago, This American Life invited listeners to help answer that question.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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65: Who's Canadian? 5.30.97
Notes and stories about the Canadians among us. Are they in fact any different from red-blooded Americans? They claim they're not. Skeptical Americans put their position to the test.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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64: Summer 5.23.97
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...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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63: One Thing 5.9.97
People whose lives are organized around one thing.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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62: Something for Nothing 5.2.97
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.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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61: Fiasco! 4.25.97
Stories of when things go wrong. Really wrong. When you leave the normal realm of human error, fumble, mishap, and mistake and enter the territory of really huge breakdowns. Fiascos. Things go so...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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60: Business of Death 4.18.97
Usually we talk about death as a tragedy, a mystery, a hard-to-comprehend fact of life. But in addition to all that, for all sorts of people it's also ... a job.
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58: Small Towns 4.4.97
Stories of small town life: the claustrophobia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. And three teenagers in one of the harshest urban environments explain...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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57: Delivery 3.14.97
Stories about the delivery business and the people in it. UPS men, bike messengers, FedEx dispatchers. Includes a new radio play by David Sedaris, in which we give him one sound effects record and...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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56: Name Change 3.7.97
Stories of people changing their name — some to create a new identity, some to con people. Name changes are particularly American stories: they're the dream of starting over with a clean slate. They'...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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55: Three Women and the Sex Industry 2.28.97
A few months ago, radio producer Sandy Tolan was supposed to do a documentary about strippers with an aspiring writer — and stripper — named Susan. A few days before they were to begin working...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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54: Sinatra 2.21.97
Stories, tributes, and attempts to understand the Chairman of the Board.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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53: Valentine's Day '97 2.7.97
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...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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52: Edge of Sanity 1.31.97
Stories about the border between mental health and mental illness.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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51: Animals Die, People Ponder 1.24.97
Stories of people who handle dead animals. Don't worry — it's not as gross as it sounds. In fact, not disgusting at all. A story by George Saunders about an animal control man who falls in unrequited...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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50: Shoulda Been Dead 1.17.97
Kevin Kelly was in Jerusalem. For reasons too complicated to go into here, he ended up sleeping on the spot where Jesus was supposedly crucified. After Kevin awoke, the thought came into his head:...- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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49: Animals 1.10.97
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.- You must be logged in to access these features. Login / Register
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48: Justice 1.3.97
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.
