12.21.07
346: Home Alone
A 79-year-old woman, Mary Ann, dies in Los Angeles. She's lived alone for decades. No one knows her—or her next of kin. There's a body to...
12.14.07
345: Ties That Bind
A young girl named Sarah receives a heart transplant from a boy her age, and her mother sets off to find out more about the kid...
11.30.07
344: The Competition
Stories of the unintended consequences of market forces.
11.23.07
343: Poultry Slam 07
For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, it's our annual program about turkeys, chickens, and fowl of all...
11.2.07
342: How to Rest in Peace
There are umpteen TV shows about solving murders, endless whodunits in bookstores. But what happens to the people left behind after the...
10.5.07
341: How to Talk to Kids
Stories of adults taking very different approaches to communicating with children.
9.7.07
340: The Devil in Me
Stories of people trying to exorcize their inner demons.
8.24.07
339: Break-Up
Writer Starlee Kine on what makes the perfect break-up song and whether really sad music can actually make you feel better. Plus, an eight-...
8.10.07
338: The Spokesman
Attention listeners. In the Internet version of Act One of this show, we have left one curse word un-bleeped at a critical moment.Stories...
7.27.07
337: Man vs. History
Stories about people taking history into their own hands. We hear from two men in two different wars. One is trying to make a difference in...
7.6.07
336: Who Can You Save?
Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.
6.15.07
335: Big Wide World
When he was a teenager, Haider worked in the Iraqi Ministry of Information. He was specially trained to talk to visiting dignitaries and...
6.1.07
334: Duty Calls
Josh's mother and younger brother were a mess. His mother drank too much. His brother got arrested a lot. Josh hadn't lived with them since...
5.25.07
333: The Center for Lessons Learned
Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk—and sometimes yell—about what they've...
5.4.07
332: The Ten Commandments
Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.
4.27.07
331: Habeas Schmabeas 2007
An updated version of our episode "Habeas Schmabeas," which won a 2006 Peabody Award.Listen to a special, uncut version.Download a...
4.13.07
330: My Reputation
Stories of people trying to recover from damage to their reputations—sometimes caused by others, sometimes self-inflicted.
4.6.07
329: Nice Work If You Can Get It
Stories of sudden fame, quick riches, and the downside of the dream job.
3.16.07
328: What I Learned from Television
Stories recorded during our 2007 live tour. Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, and other favorite contributors went on the road with...
3.9.07
327: By Proxy
Stories of proxy fights, proxy arguments, and proxy situations of all kinds.
2.16.07
326: Quiz Show
A man with social anxiety goes through a transformation on a TV game show, a young woman with high ideals has them dashed by a TV game show...
2.2.07
325: Houses of Ill Repute
An old man in Brooklyn invites some homeless prostitutes into his house on a cold winter night. They never leave. Plus other stories about...
1.26.07
324: My Brilliant Plan
An American reporter in Iraq decides to rent a house in a residential Baghdad neighborhood rather than live in a hotel and be an easy...
1.5.07
323: The Super
In 1980's New York City, rent is rising: it seems out of control, and residents struggle to keep up. So Jack Hitt help organize tenants,...