59:
Fire
Originally aired 04.11.1997
Stories about people who are not afraid of fire, though perhaps they should be.
Why one teenager set fires and then stopped setting them. Paul Tough interview. (7 minutes)
An inextinguishable subterranean fire on the edge of a small Pennsylvania town, and why the residents are not afraid of it. Host Ira Glass and This American Life contributor Alix Spiegel. (15 minutes)
Producer Nancy Updike with Ki Kim, who's not afraid of walking on coals. But maybe he should have been. (8 minutes)
Professor Stephen Pyne. (23 minutes)
Rennie Sparks from the band The Handsome Family. (1 minute)
