12.18.98
Stories about seeing and being seen. Taped before a live audience in Town Hall in New York City in December 1998, this was a co-production...
12.11.98
The family table is stage on which many family dramas are played out. We hear three stories...of three families...at three meals.
11.27.98
For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all...
11.13.98
Stories of the first day on the job, the first day in a relationship, the first day in school. On the first day, any first day, we're...
10.23.98
Stories of people's last words before death. Their one last shot at figuring things out, summing things up. One last moment of asserting...
10.16.98
What happens when you suddenly strike it rich. And the power money has over our lives, for good and bad.
9.11.98
Two brothers set out with a friend to cross America on horseback. They take a tape recorder with them to make a kind of audio journal of...
9.4.98
Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories...
8.28.98
Stories of summer camp. People who love camp say that non-camp people simply don't understand what's so amazing about camp. In this program...
8.7.98
Two stories of children lying to themselves and others. A woman who'd been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis talks about the lies she told...
7.3.98
For the July 4th holiday weekend, writer Sarah Vowell and her twin sister re-trace the "Trail of Tears" — the route their Cherokee...
6.19.98
For this Father's Day, stories in which fathers and their kids sit down and try to have an honest moment together. And stories about...
6.12.98
Two stories of people who try to cross the color line — and why it's still so hard. We hear the story of a failed interracial marriage and...
6.5.98
What's frustrating about music lessons, what's miraculous about them, and what they actually teach us. This show was recorded in front of a...
5.29.98
An NPR reporter leaves her three-year-old son and heads to Omaha — for cancer treatment — a last chance to save her life. After years of...
5.15.98
With all the American movies and songs and books about the joy of the open road, it's hard for an American to take just a normal road trip...
5.1.98
During this hour, a special edition of our show: stories about Niagara Falls, half of them from documentary producer Alix Spiegel, who went...
4.24.98
For the 100th episode of This American Life, a radio show about the pleasures of radio. About what makes radio so great ... and what makes...
4.10.98
Variations on what it means to be a girl and what it means to be a woman.
3.27.98
Stories about what it means to be a person who throws the first punch ... and how hard it is to give up.
3.20.98
An assault on the idea of wackiness. And then, an appreciation of wackiness, and an analysis of wackiness in American culture. Thirteen...
3.13.98
People who left their private lives and were seized by some huge historical moment.
3.7.98
How should we react to people who are in non-monogamous relationships? What should we think of these struggles with monogamy?
2.27.98
What happens during a "how-to," and what our how-to's say about us. Most how-to's promise that you'll not only learn skills, you'll be...
2.14.98
Stories about couples that all take place decades after that moment their eyes first meet.
2.7.98
Stories about those moments when someone tries to tell you a little bit more about themselves than you'd really rather know.
1.30.98
Stories of people trying to escape the box of their own lives, and create new lives.
1.16.98
Stories of who we are on the phone, of things we learn on the phone, and of things that happen on the phone that don't happen anywhere else.
1.2.98
Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. In this week's show, stories of people trying to use numbers...
