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[[File:iraglass.jpg|thumb|350px|This American Life host Ira
{{quote|''"It's ''This American Life'', I'm Ira Glass. Each week on our show, we bring you a theme, and then present variations on that theme. This week..."''}}
''[[This American
Often thought of as an [[NPR]] production, it was actually distributed by its rival, PRI, until it became self-distributed in 2014. However, the show actually does air on many NPR member stations, as those stations are more often than not, also PRI affiliates. (It also airs on [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC
Indeed, starting in 2008, TAL started a continued partnership with NPR News, the ''Planet Money'' quasi-[[Spin-Off]] podcast, consisting of NPR economics/politics reporters Adam Davidson, David Kestenbaum, Chana Joffe-Walt, and Jacob Goldstein, along with TAL regular Alex Blumberg talking about economics issues, ever since the Blumberg-Davidson ''TAL'' episode "The Giant Pool of Money" (basically the [[Origin
The show has an unusual structure based around the idea of storytelling. Each week's show loosely centers on a particular theme, and divided into several acts, nonfiction and fiction stories that explore that theme. Each show begins with a short prologue introduced by Glass, who then explains the theme between the prologue and first act. The number of stories varies by show, the range so far is 1 to 20.
In 2007, it became the first US public-radio series to [[Spin-Off]] [[Sound to Screen Adaptation|a show on a commercial TV network]], with an Emmy-winning [[
It's also known for launching the careers of several popular writers, such [[Sarah Vowell]] and [[David
TAL also has presented a number of live shows throughout its history, and more recently, live digital-cinema broadcasts to movie theaters. These often serve as fundraisers for the radio show. The most recent of these included the live singing debut of [[Joss
Parodies include an article from [[The
Available online as a [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Podcast.aspx
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* [[American
* [[Butt
* [[Came Back
* [[Christmas
* [[Follow the
** RadioLab is starting to become more like TAL, now that it has correspondents and presents personal stories and anecdotes in addition to the science stories that made it famous.
* [[Harsher in
* [[Human Interest
* [["I Want"
* [[Intrepid
* [[It's Been
** [http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/293/A-Little-Bit-of-Knowledge?bypass=true A self educated electrician and inventor who's a friend of the reporter claims to make an important
* [[Live
* [[Magazine Show]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: One episode ("Fall Guy", aired June 28, 2009) jumps from a comedian talking about his beatdown-filled freshman year of high school as part of his routine, to a sobering story about Lynndie England and the Abu-Ghraib prison scandal.
** This actually happens a lot, to juxtapose how ''many'' different variations on a story are out there. For example, if the show is about finding your biological parents after a long search, expect the story of the happy reunion to be followed by the story of finding only their graves a week after they died.
* [[Once an
* [[Police
* [[Sheep in Wolf's
* [[Something Completely
* [[Superhero
* [[The Deep South]]: Though the region has been covered before, the show once sent dozens of staff members to different counties in Georgia to find interesting stories. Ironically, the biggest story– possibly finding the original recipe for Coca-Cola– was saved for a later episode.
* [[The
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