This American Life
568: Human Spectacle
Gladiators in the Colosseum. Sideshow performers. Reality television. We've always loved to gawk at the misery or majesty of others. But this week, we...
306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time
A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In t...
564: Too Soon?
It can be hard to know the right moment for something to happen. Prologue: When Jordan was going into his senior year of high school in small town U...
828: Minor Crimes Division
People taking it upon themselves to solve the tiny, overlooked crimes of the world. Prologue: Host Ira Glass bikes around Manhattan with Gersh Kuntz...
827: All the King's Horses
The things we break and the ones we can't fix. Prologue: Ira tells the stories of three things that broke–two of them in his own family. (8 minutes)...
826: Unprepared for What Has Already Happened
People waking up to the fact that the world has suddenly changed. Prologue: Jackson Landers tells the story of a very strange decision he made one s...
825: Yousef
A series of phone calls to a man in Gaza named Yousef Hammash, between early December and now. He talks about what he and his family are experiencing,...
824: Family Meeting
Your mother and I have something we want to talk with you about. Prologue: A family sits down to discuss one thing. But then the true purpose of the...
823: The Question Trap
An investigation of when and why people ask loaded questions that are a proxy for something else. Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks with producer Tobin...
822: The Words to Say It
What it means to have words—and to lose them. Prologue: Sometimes we don’t want to say what’s going on because putting it into words would make it r...