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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. One of the mothers realized the
mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years
later,
when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth
changed two families' lives—and how it didn't. More...
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Sometimes when things go wrong, parsing out who all is to blame and taking them to task is just too complicated and haaaard! What's easy is pinning it all on one person and watching them go down in flames. This week Mike Birbiglia tells what it's like to be the fall guy for an entire high school. Also, Philip Gourevitch on the most infamous fall girl in recent history, and Shalom Auslander on fall dogs and fall grandmas. More...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
This American Life...in Russia
If you've been wondering why you haven't been seeing host Ira Glass on the NYC subway lately, it's because he's currently in Moscow, talking with Russian radio journalists about This American Life. You can hear the audio from these lectures here (they start in Russian, but Ira speaks in English).
The feature is here— or, in (Babelfished) English, here.
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Help Keep the Podcast Free!
As you may have heard, last year it cost Chicago Public Radio more than $120,000 to pay for the bandwidth required to deliver our free podcast and streaming files. That's not computers. That's not staff. That's not the production of the show. That's just the server bandwidth required to get the show to you on the internet.
In the past we've been able to cover these costs with a flood of small donations—if we can keep that up, we can keep the podcast free.
Would you consider helping out? Five, ten bucks—anything you can give will be greatly appreciated! Click here to donate online.
Many thanks,
—Your friends at This American Life
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
New Television Episode!
"No Respect"—our new television episode about standup comedy, featuring Jonathan Goldstein and Mike Birbiglia, airs Thursday, May 28th at 9:30pm ET on Showtime.
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