4 posts tagged “this life”

This Week's Assignment:
Tell us your stories of milestones reached - whether you actually wanted to reach them or not.

Here's our take on it:

This American Life: #174 Birthdays, Anniversaries and Milestones

Birthdays, anniversaries, milestones of all sorts... and how they mean something whether we want them to or not. For its fifth anniversary, This American Life went on the road with a live show — to Boston, New York, Chicago and L.A. A co-production with public radio stations WBUR, WNYC, WBEZ and KCRW. Broadcasts this weekend 11/16-11/18.

This Week's Assignment:
Tell us your stories of race and the role it's played in your life.

Here's our take on it:

This American Life: #84 Harold

A parable of politics and race in America. The story of Chicago's first
black mayor, Harold Washington, who died 20 years ago this month. On the radio 11/9-11/11.

This Week's Assignment:
Tell us your stories of just not being able to let go.

Here's our take on it:

This American Life: #314 It's Never Over

A grown man tries to get to the bottom of why his schoolmates threw him in a lake twenty years earlier. And a woman buys a house on the cheap, with the understanding that the seller will soon vacate. Ten years later, she's still waiting. These and other stories of things never seeming to come to an end.

This Week's Assignment:

Tell us your stories of wanting to be a pro.

Here's our take on it:

This American Life Episode #192: Meet the Pros