12.21.01
Stories of faith: losing it, talking about it, constructing it, and working within it.
12.7.01
In a time of war, when we're all feeling a heightened sense of "us" and "them," we wanted to take up the problem of "them." Some people...
11.30.01
Of all the wars to win, perhaps the propaganda war is the hardest. In this show, we bring you stories of propaganda wars past and present,...
11.16.01
Our entire show this week is one long story, sort of a real-life Hardy Boys mystery. More than most of our shows, this one lends itself to...
11.2.01
Stories of people climbing to be number one. How do they do it? What is the fundamental difference between us and them?
10.26.01
There's the time when you know something is happening, but you're not sure exactly what. The illness before it's diagnosed. The era, before...
10.5.01
In the movie Rashomon, one story is told from four different points of view. The story changes dramatically depending on who's telling it....
9.28.01
In 2001, we tried to sort out what the war in Iraq would be like, and what our lives would be like during this war.
9.14.01
In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a collection of stories in which people try to make sense of loss.
8.31.01
The story of one man's journey from obscurity to international professional celebrity—aided only by his own hard work, a sneaker commercial...
8.17.01
Stories for the stultifying, torpor-inducing, hottest heat of summer.
8.3.01
There's a deep impulse in American culture that says that you can make yourself into anyone. Today, three stories about people who tried to...
7.13.01
Nearly this entire show is devoted to the story of the boat known as "Hitler's Yacht." It's a modern-day fable about what happens when the...
6.22.01
Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
6.8.01
While the seniors danced at Prom Night 2001 in Hoisington, Kansas—a town of about 3,000—a tornado hit the town, destroying about a third of...
5.25.01
Stories of people worshipping false idols...and if that's always a bad thing.
4.20.01
Stories about the legacy of absent parents. We hear four cases from the files of the Missing Parents Bureau.
4.13.01
Stories that make us cringe, and an investigation into just what, exactly, makes some stories capable of forcing this physical reaction out...
4.6.01
A special show, composed entirely of stories from just one This American Life contributor: Scott Carrier, whose strange and compelling...
3.23.01
Stories of people who try to revisit their childhoods. What they find. And what they do not find.
3.16.01
The story in a way of a town that time forgot, or more accurately, a town that tried to forget the times. A special broadcast co-hosted by...
2.23.01
We answer the following questions about superpowers: Can superheroes be real people? (No.) Can real people become superheroes? (Maybe.) And...
2.9.01
Stories of people living completely outside the grid of American life. Americans in Paris. Chinese in America. West Virginians in...
1.26.01
In the wake of the 2001 election debacle in Florida, the two political halves of this country seemed angrier at each other than they had in...
1.6.01
Stories of babysitters, and what goes on while mom and dad are away that mom and dad never find out about.
