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This American Life - Ira Glass
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"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_2008_(Sendung)
© 2008 Ira Glass / Chicago Public Media
| Datei | Datum | Inhalt | Dauer |
| 347 | 2008-01-18 | Matchmakers Sabir, a young man in Afghanistan, thought he'd found true love but he couldn't afford a wedding. So two foreign aid workers, friends of his, decide to come to his rescue. They soon find out making a lasting love match isn't as simple as writing a check. | 00:58:03 |
| 348 | 2008-02-08 | Tough Room This week we bring you backstage with comedy writers at The Onion. They start with over 600 potential headlines for their fake-news newspaper each week, and over the course of two days, in the very tough room that is their editorial conference room, they select 16 to go in the paper. Plus other people speaking their minds in very tough rooms. | 00:59:00 |
| 349 | 2008-02-15 | Valentine's Day 2008 Veronica Chater's mother wants to go to a resort in Mexico with a friend. Her father, a former cop with an extravagant sense of security, prepares as if she's headed for a war zone. This, and other stories about couples, that happen decades after the moment their eyes meet. | 00:59:00 |
| 350 | 2008-02-29 | Human Resources The true story of little-known rooms in the New York City Board of Education building. Teachers are told to report there instead of their classrooms. No reason is usually given. | 00:58:00 |
| 351 | 2008-03-07 | Return to Childhood 2008 Seventh-grader Kayla Hernandez likes to reminisce about when she was a child, back in fifth grade. She visits her school, where her fifth grade class met, and looks at her old books, thinks about what happened there. | 00:59:00 |
| 352 | 2008-03-14 | The Ghost of Bobby Dunbar In 1912 a four year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing in a swamp in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found in the hands of a wandering handyman in Mississippi (the picture at left was taken just days later). Reporter Tal McThenia co-authored a book about the Bobby Dunbar story called A Case For Solomon. | 00:58:02 |
| 353 | 2008-03-28 | The Audacity of Government Stories of the Bush Administration, its unique style of asserting presidential authority, and its quest to redefine the limits of presidential power. | 01:02:47 |
| 354 | 2008-04-18 | Mistakes Were Made It's the late 1960s, and in the new technology of cryonics, a California TV repairman named Bob sees an opportunity to help people cheat death. But freezing dead people so scientists can reanimate them in the future is a lot harder than it sounds. Harder still was admitting to the family members of people Bob had frozen that he'd screwed up. Badly. | 00:57:40 |
| 355 | 2008-04-09 | The Giant Pool of Money A special program about the housing crisis produced in a special collaboration with NPR News. We explain it all to you. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? | 00:59:00 |
| 356 | 2008-05-30 | The Prosecutor A lawyer in the Justice Department gets the professional opportunity of a lifetime: To be the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11. But things go badly for him. | 00:59:00 |
| 357 | 2008-06-13 | The Truth Will Out Does the truth always come out? Of course not! Though sometimes it comes out in the most uncomfortable ways imaginable. Stories of concealed truths bubbling to the surface, including a brand-new, unpublished story by fiction writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret. | 00:59:00 |
| 358 | 2008-06-27 | Social Engineering Governments are always looking for ways to change behavior—stopping people from driving drunk, or encouraging them to recycle. This week, we have stories of social engineering on a smaller scale. | 00:59:00 |
| 359 | 2008-07-18 | Life After Death Stories of people haunted by guilt over their role in others' deaths, even when everyone agrees they're blameless. | 00:59:00 |
| 360 | 2008-07-25 | Switched At Birth On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. | 00:58:02 |
| 361 | 2008-08-08 | Fear of Sleep Mike Birbiglia got used to strange things happening to him when he slept—until something happened that almost killed him (Mike's story is now a feature film, Sleepwalk With Me). This and other reasons to fear sleep, including bedbugs, "The Shining," and mild-mannered husbands who turn into maniacs while asleep. | 00:58:02 |
| 362 | 2008-08-22 | Got You Pegged Shalom Auslander goes on vacation with his family, and suspects the beloved, chatty old man in the room next door is an imposter—and sets out to prove it. This and other stories about the pitfalls of making snap judgments about others. | 01:00:49 |
| 363 | 2008-09-12 | Enforcers Stories about people who take the law into their own hands, even when the line between enforcing the rules and breaking them gets kind of hazy. | 00:57:53 |
| 364 | 2008-09-26 | Going Big Stories about people who take grand, sweeping approaches to solving problems of all sorts. | 00:58:26 |
| 365 | 2008-10-03 | Another Frightening Show About the Economy Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson—the two guys who reported our Giant Pool of Money episode—are back, in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast. | 00:59:52 |
| 366 | 2008-10-10 | A Better Mousetrap 2008 Stories about people trying to find new solutions to age-old problems—solutions that sometimes cause problems of their own. Alex Blumberg returns (in collaboration with the Planet Money podcast) with the latest in the financial crisis. | 00:58:02 |
| 367 | 2008-10-24 | Ground Game This American Life goes to Pennsylvania, a battleground within a battleground, to figure out why, and how, John McCain and Barack Obama both think they can win there. And we get to know the ordinary people who've become the candidates' most forceful foot soldiers. | 01:04:28 |
| 368 | 2008-11-07 | Who Do You Think You Are? This week we bring you stories of privilege and the lengths some will go to to maintain it. In one story, a woman fights—on tape!—with her city's parking enforcer about playing favorites. | 00:57:51 |
| 369 | 2008-11-28 | Poultry Slam 2008 A man in Pakistan wants to break his friend out of prison. He buys him an amulet that supposedly has the power to protect anyone from harm. But just to be on the safe side, he decides to test the amulet by trying it out first. On a chicken. | 00:57:41 |
| 370 | 2008-12-19 | Ruining It for the Rest of Us Stories of people who ruin things for everyone else...or who are accused of that. Like the San Diego parents who didn't vaccinate their child for measles. | 00:58:02 |
| 371 | 2008-12-26 | Scenes From a Mall This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, to document life in the mall during the run-up to Christmas. Also, a rift in a national association of professional Santas—the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas (yes, there is such a group). | 00:58:01 |
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