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.
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...
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.
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....
10.31.97
Stories of people who are haunted, not by ghosts or phantoms, but by other people.
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...
10.10.97
People stuck in the wrong decade — or simply carrying a lot of the props from another decade.
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...
8.30.97
What happens when people with one common interest gather in monstrous, fluorescent -lit halls for the weekend? Sometimes they drive each...
8.15.97
The darker side of the art world: petty jealousies, competitiveness, failure. And also what's so great about art.
8.8.97
An idiosyncratic first-person travelogue about race relations and tourism from radio producer Rich Robinson and television producer Josh...
8.1.97
Stories of people trying to do exactly what the doctors say they can't — or shouldn't.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
4.4.97
Stories of small town life: the claustrophia and freedom people feel in small towns, the yearning people feel in small towns. And three...
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...
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:...
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 —...
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...
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...
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...
1.10.97
Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.
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...
