17 posts tagged “vox”

This Week's Assignment:

Have a Happy Thanksgiving! And tell us your stories of this holiday-ish time of year.

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life: #116 Poultry Slam

For Thanksgiving, the time of year when poultry consumption is highest, we investigate turkeys, chickens, ducks—fowl of all types...and their mysterious hold over us. Broadcasts this weekend 11/23-11/25.

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:

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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:

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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 coping with a life-altering family event.

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life: #342 Murder in the Family

Stories of people whose lives were changed by violence. A young woman
discovers that she owes her life to a boy killed in a gang shooting.
Another woman decides to stop searching for her father's killer. And
other stories. Broadcasts this weekend: 11/02-11/04.

This Week's Assignment
Tell us your stories about performing Hamlet (I know it's kind of a narrow topic this week, but feel free to take liberty with it!).

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life: #218 Act V

We devote this entire episode to one story: over the course of six months, reporter and TAL contributor Jack Hitt followed a group of inmates at a high-security prison as they rehearsed and staged a production of the last act—Act V—of Hamlet. Shakespeare may seem like an odd match for a group of hardened criminals, but Jack found that they understand the Bard on a level that most of us might not. It's a play about murder and its consequences, performed by murderers living out the consequences.
Broadcasts this weekend, 10/12 - 10/14

This Week's Assignment:
Tell us your stories about trying to talk to kids!

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life: #341 How to Talk to Kids

A raunchy comedian gets booked on a tour...of kids' sleep-away camps. A middle-aged woman grapples with right and wrong in talking to her teenage daughter about her sexuality. Plus, other stories of adults trying to learn the language of children.

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

Here's our take on it:

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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 transforming yourself.

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life: #121 Twentieth Century Man

Twentieth Century Man. Over the course of his life, Keith Aldrich was a child of depression in Oklahoma; a preacher-in-training in booming California; an aspiring Hollywood actor; in the 1950s, a self-styled beat writer and then a man in a grey flannel suit; in the 1960s, a member of the New York literati and then a hippie; in the 1970s, a denizen of the suburbs for seventies-era Ice Storm kind of life; and a born-again Christian when the Moral Majority helped put Ronald Reagan in office. Gillian Aldrich, one of his nine children, tells the story of Keith's life, which serves not only as a history of the major cultural shifts of the second half of the twentieth century, but also a case study in the question, "What happens if you're too good at transforming yourself?"

This Week's Assignment

Have you done anything lately that you knew was wrong... but you just couldn't stop yourself? Tell us your stories about the devil in you.

Here's our take on it:

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This American Life Episode #340: The Devil in Me

We all have that thing in us: a voice telling us to do or think something we shouldn't. In this episode, stories of people trying to exorcize that voice. An Iraq War veteran comes home with an aversion to all Muslims and decides to systematically defeat his own bigotry. And a fundamentalist Christian takes on an actual demon who happens to visit his college classroom.

This Week's Assignment

Can love really be unconditional? Tell us your stories about unconditional love.

Here's our take on it:

PROMO #317_ Unconditional Love

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