This American Life: best episodes?
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Anonymous
| There is a Christmas / Santa episode that is fantastic. |
Anonymous
| The one about the all-night diner in Chicago. The one about the rest stop service plaza in New York. Both my favorite formats - reporters interview people over 24 hours. |
Anonymous
TAL is a staple for our car drives up and down the east coast. Our children have listened to almost all of them. |
Anonymous
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The one where they try and do 20 stories in one hour
There is one called the room of requirement which is amazing there is also one about sociopathy, they all take the test to see if they are a sociopath and guess who is |
Anonymous
TAL is at its best in scenarios like this. They find amazing stories from random people and tie them together with a theme. |
Anonymous
| The tattle phone is so so good. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/672/transcript |
Anonymous
Sorry I linked to transcript by mistake. Try this - it’s the prologue https://www.thisamericanlife.org/672/no-fair |
Anonymous
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Not TAL but the story “Rob” from NPR’s show Heavyweight is really good.
The U-Haul story from “Spectacular Failures”. The price of Coke on Planet Money. |
Anonymous
I was going to suggest this! I don’t remember the later stories but the Peter Pan play is AMAZING |
Anonymous
| I want to thank PPs. I've listened to a few of these and they are fantastic! |
Anonymous
| Anatomy of Doubt. It won a Peabody award. Some parts were hard to listen to, but it was very good. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt" target="_new" rel="nofollow"> https://www.thisamericanlife.org/581/anatomy-of-doubt |
Anonymous
| The month at the car dealership. |
Anonymous
+4 for Squirrel Cop |
Anonymous
I listened to that based on this thread - it was stressful! |
Anonymous
Yes! |