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This American Life - Ira Glass
19.01.18
"This American Life ( 
ext. Link ) ist eine einstündige, wöchentlich übertragene Hörfunksendung, die vom US-amerikanischen Chicago Public Radio produziert wird und weltweit als Podcast zu hören ist. Im Mittelpunkt der von Ira Glass moderierten Sendung stehen Reportagen, die sich immer einem spezifischen Thema widmen und teilweise durch Essays oder Kurzgeschichten ergänzt werden" (Quelle: 
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This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. It is produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with another 2.4 million people downloading each episode. There's a theme to each episode of This American Life, and a variety of stories on that theme. Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay.
Archivnummern: AP/e_eng/tal_2017_(Sendung)
© 2017 Ira Glass / Chicago Public Media
| Datei | Datum | Inhalt | Dauer |
| #607 | 06.01 | Didn’t We Solve This One? We’ve fought two wars since 9/11. We got help from tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans—some were targeted or killed because they helped us. We owe these people. We’ve passed laws that say so. So why has it been so hard for us to get many of them to safety? | 63:58 |
| #608 | 20.01 | The Revolution Starts At Noon Some people are super-stoked for the political changes that are coming. We hear from them. And others. | 67:56 |
| #609 | 03.02 | It’s Working Out Very Nicely This week we document what happened when the President’s executive order went into effect temporarily banning travel from seven countries, and we talk about the way it was implemented. A major policy change thrown into the world like a fastball with no warning. It’s hard not to ask: “What just happened? What was that all about?” | 63:11 |
| #610 | 17.02 | Grand Gesture This week we have stories of people going to very extreme measures to demonstrate their feelings. Elna Baker makes a questionable trip to Africa, while a man in Florida commits a series of disturbing acts in the name of love. Ira also goes to a high school to talk to kids before a dance. | 61:10 |
| #611 | 03.03 | Vague and Confused A show about rules and what happens when they’re vague and randomly enforced. | 65:28 |
| #612 | 17.03 | Ask a Grown-Up Stories from people who need a grown-up. Featuring teenage girls asking for advice about their love lives and Ira's tribute to his very grown-up friend Mary. | 64:10 |
| #613 | 31.03 | OK, I’ll Do It Stories of people who decide that they are the best person for the job, no matter how dangerous. Including a story about a stay-at-home mom with a history of gun running for a guerilla organization, and a surgeon who does surgery...on himself. | 63:35 |
| #614 | 14.04 | The Other Mr. President Since Russia meddled in our election, there's been concern that the fake news and disinformation that's so prevalent there could be taking hold in this country. But is that hyperbole? This week we look at what it's actually like to live in the confusing information landscape that is Putin's Russia. | 66:23 |
| #615 | 28.04 | The Beginning of Now Before Donald Trump started his presidential campaign in 2015, there was a congressional race that redefined what was possible in American politics. Steve Bannon and Breitbart News got involved in that race early, just like they later got deeply involved Donald Trump's race. On this week’s show: What happened in that campaign, what it made it work, and how we got to now. | 60:06 |
| #616 | 05.05 | I Am Not A Pirate To be, or not to be a pirate? This week, that is the question. Hold fast, mateys! We have stories about both historical and modern-day swashbucklers who loot, pillage, and question their choices. | 68:20 |
| #617 | 19.05 | Fermi’s Paradox Three people grapple with the question, “Are we alone?” | 60:23 |
| #618 | 09.06 | Mr. Lie Detector A polygraph operator and his strange journey. And other stories. | 61:32 |
| #619 | 30.06 | The Magic Show Just a few years before he got the internship at NPR that started him in radio, our host Ira Glass had another career. He performed magic at children's birthday parties. A powerful sense of embarrassment has prevented him from ever doing an episode on the subject, but when he learned that producer David Kestenbaum was also a kid conjurer, they decided to dive in together. | 60:20 |
| #620 | 14.07 | To Be Real Most of the time, we show the world a pretty superficial version of ourselves. "How about that weather?" But this week—people who try to go deeper, to get to something real, in some unexpected places: war, magic and porn. | 60:48 |
| #621 | 21.07 | Fear and Loathing in Homer and Rockville Two towns where people got really upset about undocumented immigrants, even though in both places, that did not seem to be the most important thing happening at all. One of the towns, a small town in Alaska, has no undocumented immigrants at all, but the possibility of them arriving put the whole town at each other’s throats. | 64:07 |
| #622 | 04.08 | Who You Gonna Call? When everything goes wrong, one of the first things we think is, "Who do I call?" This week, stories of lucky people who have found the exact right person to ring up for help. | 62:19 |
| #623 | 18.08 | We Are in the Future One of our producers, Neil Drumming, has recently become fascinated with Afrofuturism. It's more than sci-fi. It’s a way of looking at black culture that’s fantastic, creative, and oddly hopeful—which feels especially urgent during a time without a lot of optimism. | 59:41 |
| #624 | 01.09 | Private Geography Everyone walks around on their own private map of the world. The places we’re from and how they made us, whether we like it or not. | 60:50 |
| #625 | 08.09 | Essay B In 1967, the first two black students were enrolled at an all-white private boarding school in Virginia. The main reason they were there? To benefit the white kids. This week: stories about being enlisted to benefit another person’s educational experience. A version of this story appears in The New York Times Magazine. | 60:48 |
| #626 | 22.09 | White Haze Right-wing groups like the Proud Boys say they have no tolerance for racism or white supremacist groups. Their leader Gavin McInnes disavowed the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. But the Proud Boys believe “the West is the best,” which, one of them points out, is not such a big jump from “whites are best.” And one of the Proud Boys organized the Charlottesville rally. (The group now claims he was a spy.) What should we make of groups like this? | 61:30 |
| #627 | 06.10 | Suitable for Children This week we ask: who thought that would be good for a kid? Neil Drumming looks back at a toy he loved that, in retrospect, probably wouldn’t love him back. And we go to a museum that educates children but also scares the hell out of them. | 61:12 |
| #628 | 13.10 | In the Shadow of the City 2017 Stories that take place on the edge of civilization, just out of sight. | 58:41 |
| #629 | 20.10 | Expect Delays We all love to travel to different places, but not many of us like the stressful, banal process of the journey. This week, stories about delays—including a town known entirely for its speed trap, and a woman who comes up against bureaucratic nightmares every time she wants to go just a few blocks away. | 59:38 |
| #630 | 27.10 | Things I Mean to Know There are so many facts about the world that we take for granted—without ever questioning how we know them. Of course the earth revolves around the sun. Of course my dog loves me. But how exactly do we know things like that are true? This week, stories of people trying to unspool some of life’s certainties, and what they find. | 61:57 |
| #631 | 10.11 | So a Monkey and a Horse Walk Into a Bar This week, blurring the line between animal and human. | 62:01 |
| #632 | 08.12 | Our Town We spent eight months and did over a hundred interviews to try to bypass the usual rhetoric and get to the bottom of what really happened when undocumented workers showed up in one Alabama town. Pictured: Albertville “Miss Chick” 1954. | 65:35 |
| #633 | 15.12 | Our Town - Part Two So many people in Albertville, AL wondered what it cost them in taxes when thousands of undocumented immigrants moved to their town. One woman drove our host Ira Glass to the grocery store to watch a random Latina mom buy some milk with government assistance, to try to prove her point. So what’d all the newcomers really cost? And what was their effect on crime, schools, and politics? | 68:47 |
| #634 | 22.12 | Human Error in Volatile Situations Even the best laid plans can go catastrophically wrong when humans get involved. This week, people bungle simple operations on some of the most dangerous weapons in the world. | 62:16 |
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