12.19.03
The vexing difficulty of finding the perfect gift, illustrated in three acts.
12.12.03
In early 2003, we brought you a special show about a California teenager, Hyder Akbar, who traveled to Afghanistan, his family's homeland,...
12.5.03
Stories from faraway, hard-to-get-to places, where all rules are off, nefarious things happen because no one's looking, and there's no one...
11.28.03
During the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's — the highest turkey consumption period of the year — we bring you an annual This...
11.21.03
Biblical fables ripped from today's headlines. In his ongoing effort to write his own version of the Bible, Jonathan Goldstein retells the...
11.7.03
Why is it always harder than you think it'll be? We explore several case examples of the annoying gap between theory and practice.
10.31.03
We make what's usually invisible, visible: the world of trash. We follow the trash from the sanitation men on the street, to the mob guys...
10.24.03
Some stories we make happen, others happen to us. Extremes from the latter category, where people let things happen to them and don't act,...
9.19.03
What is this thing? This thing called love, that is. For answers, we explore the romance novel industry, a $1.5 billion empire run almost...
9.12.03
Stories of very unusual pen pals, people whose relationship could not exist without the help of the postal service.
9.5.03
What is it about them, our mean friends? They treat us badly, they don't call us back, they cancel plans at the last minute, and yet we...
8.15.03
In real life, we usually never get to invent ingenious solutions, like the guy in the old TV series MacGyver. Today, four real stories...
7.25.03
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...
7.18.03
Living behind enemy lines among the enemy, it's sometimes hard to remember why you're fighting in the first place.
7.11.03
Instead of the regular "each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme" business, this week we throw all...
6.20.03
Stories of people putting themselves in charge in very unlikely, unpromising circumstances.
6.6.03
Stories of people who are lost, histories that are lost, and things that are lost. This show was recorded onstage in front of audiences on...
5.30.03
Stories of what can and cannot be translated. A short, non-athletic, bespectacled East Asian studies major who couldn't make his high...
4.18.03
Sure, John Kerry got in trouble for using the phrase, but we have no fear. Because we know that regime change, like charity, begins at home.
3.14.03
During this week in which words are failing on an international level, from Washington to Paris to Baghdad, we ask: Does talking about it...
3.7.03
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
2.14.03
It's been said that truth is the first casualty of war. In this week's show, we try to get the real stories from three very different wars.
2.7.03
Stories of people trying to save the world one person at a time, and stories of sudden truths delivered by complete strangers.
1.31.03
Teenage Embed, Part One. In January 2002, the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, spoke at Georgetown University. There he urged Afghan...
1.3.03
Two stories about love, and what people mean when they use the word love. Or, looked at differently, two modern-day reinterpretations of...
