This American Life - Podcast

This American Life - Podcast

thisamericanlife.org

This American Life
153 West 27th Street, Suite 1104
New York, NY 10001
USA
email: web@thislife.org

This American Life Live!

We offer each of our radio episodes as a free mp3 for exactly one week, beginning the Monday after broadcast. To subscribe to our podcast:

* using iTunes, click here

* using another podcatcher, use this URL:
http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast

To learn more, check out the iTunes Podcasting FAQ or the Wikipedia podcast entry.

You can also download our free mp3 a la carte every week, via the icon.

Plus, remember that you can

* Stream full episodes for free

* Download episodes for only $0.95 in the iTunes Store

* Buy CDs featuring beautiful packaging by Chris Ware for $13
all in our radio archive.

This American Life, presented by Chicago Public Radio, is an award-winning radio program as well as a television program on the Showtime network. Hosted by Ira Glass, we feature first-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Regular contributors include David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, John Hodgman, Jonathan Goldstein, and Chris Ware.

For a long time, This American Life was only a radio show, one with a hard-to-describe sound, millions of listeners, and a bunch of awards. Then, after more than a decade on the radio, we started the television show, mostly because it seemed like it might be fun. We continue to produce the weekly radio show, which can be heard on more than 500 public radio stations around the country (find a station near you) as well as on this website, through our free podcast. The television show is on the Showtime network.

The radio and TV shows follow the same format. There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but, like we said, it's sort of hard to describe. Probably the best way to understand the show is to start at our favorites page, though we have full guides to our TV show and our radio show, with clips. If you want to dive into the hundreds of episodes we've done over the years, there's an archive of all our old radio shows and listings for all our TV episodes, too.

Oh, and we know what you're thinking: radio is so 80 years ago, and TV is so 50 years ago. Well, what about social networking? That's only 2 or 3 years ago, and we're all over it. Find us on MySpace and Facebook and YouTube, too. We've also got a bunch of instant messaging icons, wallpapers, and blog badges for your downloading fun over on our Showtime site. Go nuts.

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