This American Life
The latest news from Chicago Public Radio's "This American Life." Hosted by Ira Glass, "TAL" is an award-winning radio program and was also an Emmy-winning series on the Showtime network. The weekly radio show features first-person stories and short fiction pieces that are touching, funny, and surprising. Regular contributors include David Sedaris, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, Dan Savage, Jonathan Goldstein, and Chris Ware.
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This Week on the Radio: "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. Stories about the powerful combination of
chickens, faith and God in our not-quite-annual 2008 Poultry
Slam. Broadcast November 20 - November 22.
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This Week on the Radio: "Starting from Scratch"
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to. Broadcast November 13 - November 15.
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