This American Life

The Show of Delights

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In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.

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“When I’m trying to explain our program to someone who doesn’t know it, I stammer a bunch of words like ‘entertaining,’ ‘funny,’ ‘surprising plot twists,’ ‘true stories but not boring I swear’ … and then I just give them this list.” — Ira Glass

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