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In
2003
, there were 28
This American Life
episodes.
Episode 228
– "You Are So Beautiful... To Me"
Act 1:
Polly Wants More Than a Cracker
–
Veronica Chater
Act 2:
On the Border Between Good and Bad
–
Russell Banks
Episode 229
– "Secret Government"
Act 1:
Until the End of the War
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
Secret Trials and Secret Deportations
–
David Kestenbaum
Act 3:
Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court
–
Blue Chevigny
Episode 230
– "Come Back to Afghanistan"
Susan Burton
and
Hyder Akbar
won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
Act 1:
Teenage Embed
–
Hyder Akbar
and
Susan Burton
Episode 231
– "Time to Save the World"
Act 1:
The Rundown
–
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
Heather Help Me
–
Jessica Riddle
Act 3:
Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread
Act 4:
The Science of Good and Evil
–
Susan Drury
Episode 232
– "The Real Story"
Act 1:
Jarhead
–
Anthony Swofford
Act 2:
What's the Truth Good For, Anyway?
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
Jar Jar Head
–
John Hodgman
Episode 233
– "Starting from Scratch"
Act 1:
Puppy Love
–
Molly FitzSimons
Act 2:
Making Money the Old Fashioned Way
–
Mary Beth Kirshner
Act 3:
The First Starting from Scratch
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Episode 234
– "Say Anything"
Act 1:
How to Write a Note
–
Jake Warga
Act 2:
The Battle of Words vs Fear
–
Michael Bernard Loggins
Act 3:
When a City Opens its Big Mouth
Act 4:
Wedding Bells and Door Bells
–
Elizabeth Gilbert
and
Jonathan Goldstein
Episode 235
– "The Balloon Goes Up"
Act 1:
Bombs over Baghdad
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army
Act 3:
What's French for French Fries?
–
David Sedaris
Act 4:
Fighting the Previous War
–
Sarah Vowell
Act 5:
What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime
–
Lee Sandlin
Act 6:
Lessons from Ancient Wars
–
Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
Episode 236
– "My Two Cents"
Act 1:
Dave Knows
–
Susan Drury
Act 2:
Stock Making Sense
–
Alex Blumberg
Act 3:
A View from the Mop
–
Greg Tate
Episode 237
– "Regime Change"
Act 1:
Unconquerable
–
Katie Davis
Act 2:
Or Give Me Death
–
Sarah Koenig
Act 3:
The Heart is a Lonely Junta
–
Ira Glass
and
Jeffrey Brown
Episode 238
– "Lost in Translation"
Act 1:
The Chasm Between Comedy and Music
–
Jonathan Goldstein
and
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
Star of Bethlehem
–
Nancy Updike
Act 3:
Translating for the Very, Very, Very, Very Tall
–
Jesse Hardman
Episode 239
– "Lost in America"
Act 1:
Losing It
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler
–
Sarah Vowell
Act 3:
I Found Your Letter
–
Davy Rothbart
Episode 240
– "I'm In Charge Now"
Act 1:
It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild
–
David Sedaris
Act 2:
Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues
–
Katy Vine
Act 3:
You Talkin' to Me?
–
Adam Davidson
Episode 241
– "20 Acts in 60 Minutes"
Act 1:
Don't I Know You?
–
Tate Donovan
and
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
No of Course I Know You
–
Scott Carrier
Act 3:
It's Commerce that Brings Us Together
–
Susan Drury
Act 4:
The Sound of One Hand Waving
–
Patty Martin
Act 5:
The Sound of No Hands Clapping
–
Viki Merrick
,
Eric Kipp
, and
Jay Allison
Act 6:
Reaching Out with Radio
– "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
Act 7:
Up Where the Air is Clear
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 8:
The Greatest Dog Name in the World
– Valion Loetz, Paris Loetz and Katie Adone
Act 9:
Of Dogs and Men
–
Elaine Boehm
and
Jim Sultzer
Act 10:
Untitled
–
Neo-Futurists
Act 11:
Etiquette Lesson
–
David Sedaris
Act 12:
To Tell the Truth
–
Brent Runyon
Act 13:
More Lies
–
Catharyn and Ira Glass
Act 14:
Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids
–
Ira Glass
Act 15:
Mr. Prediction
–
David Rakoff
Act 16:
That One Guy at the Office
– ?
Drewdanna Gustafson
?
Act 17:
You Can't Choose Your Gift
– ?
Richard Carry
? and
Jim Sultzer
Act 18:
Party Talk
–
Chuck Klosterman
Act 19:
The Hard Life at the Top
–
David Lipsky
Act 20:
The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage
–
Ira Glass
Episode 242
– "Enemy Camp"
Act 1:
Confession
–
Carl Marziali
Act 2:
Blood Agent
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
And I Love Her
–
Etgar Keret
Act 4:
Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership
–
Blue Chevigny
Episode 243
– "Later That Same Day"
Act 1:
The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends
–
Scott Carrier
Act 2:
Scrapbook, the Verb
Act 3:
Slingshot
–
John Hodgman
Episode 244
– "MacGyver"
Act 1:
Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Files in Cakes, Ha!
–
Angelo
Act 3:
So Crazy It Just Might Work
–
Elizabeth Gilbert
Act 4:
A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable
–
Susan Burton
Episode 245
– "Allure of the Mean Friend"
Act 1:
Return to the Scene of the Crime
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
Does Niceness Pay?
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
And What's Going on With You?
–
Mike Albo
and
Virginia Heffernan
Act 4:
Keeping It in the Family
–
Bernard Cooper
Episode 246
– "My Pen Pal"
Act 1:
Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"?
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Pen Pal Husband
–
Janice Powell
Episode 247
– "What Is This Thing?"
Act 1:
Inside the Romance Industry
–
Robin Epstein
Act 2:
View from the Other Half
–
Griffin Hansbury
Act 3:
A Love Story
–
Sarah Vowell
Episode 248
– "Like It Or Not"
Prologue –
David Rakoff
Act 1:
If It Drives, Go Live
–
Starlee Kine
follows up on a 2001 low speed car chase in
Los Angeles
Act 2:
Don't Just Stand There
–
Sheila Peabody
Act 3:
Hello, Baby
–
David Rakoff
Act 4:
On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce
–
Curtis Sittenfeld
on a
Mobile Bay jubilee
Episode 249
– "Garbage"
Act 1:
Oh, Mr. San Man
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You
–
Luis Urrea
Act 3:
"I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."
Episode 250
– "The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice"
Act 1:
Rock, Paper, Computer
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
Detroit Is In the House
–
Alex Blumberg
Act 3:
Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero
–
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Episode 251
– "Brother's Keeper"
Act 1:
Whatever Happened to Baby Cain?
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
–
Nancy Updike
Act 3:
Neighbor's Keeper
–
Robert Kurson
Episode 252
– "Poultry Slam '03"
Act 1:
Duki
Act 2:
Winged Warrior
Act 3:
Chicken Diva
–
Jack Hitt
Act 4:
Trying to Respect the Chicken
–
Ira Glass
Episode 253
– "The Middle of Nowhere"
Act 1:
No Island Is An Island
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream
–
Julie Snyder
Episode 254
– "Teenage Embed, Part Two"
Act 1:
Part One
–
Hyder Akbar
Act 2:
Part Two
–
Hyder Akbar
Episode 255
– "This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide"
Act 1:
Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom
–
Ian Brown
Act 2:
A Christmas Memory
Act 3:
Secret Santa
–
Caitlin Shetterly
External links
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'
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t
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Jay Allison
Shalom Auslander
Elna Baker
Mike Birbiglia
Alex Blumberg
Scott Carrier
Adam Davidson
Emmanuel Dzotsi
Dishwasher Pete
Jonathan Goldstein
Jack Hitt
John Hodgman
Starlee Kine
Sarah Koenig
Jon Langford
Sandra Tsing Loh
Heather O'Neill
David Rakoff
Jon Ronson
Davy Rothbart
Dan Savage
David Sedaris
Curtis Sittenfeld
Karen Sosnoski
Julia Sweeney
Nancy Updike
Sarah Vowell
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In
2003
, there were 28
This American Life
episodes.
Episode 228
– "You Are So Beautiful... To Me"
Act 1:
Polly Wants More Than a Cracker
–
Veronica Chater
Act 2:
On the Border Between Good and Bad
–
Russell Banks
Episode 229
– "Secret Government"
Act 1:
Until the End of the War
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
Secret Trials and Secret Deportations
–
David Kestenbaum
Act 3:
Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court
–
Blue Chevigny
Episode 230
– "Come Back to Afghanistan"
Susan Burton
and
Hyder Akbar
won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
Act 1:
Teenage Embed
–
Hyder Akbar
and
Susan Burton
Episode 231
– "Time to Save the World"
Act 1:
The Rundown
–
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
Heather Help Me
–
Jessica Riddle
Act 3:
Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread
Act 4:
The Science of Good and Evil
–
Susan Drury
Episode 232
– "The Real Story"
Act 1:
Jarhead
–
Anthony Swofford
Act 2:
What's the Truth Good For, Anyway?
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
Jar Jar Head
–
John Hodgman
Episode 233
– "Starting from Scratch"
Act 1:
Puppy Love
–
Molly FitzSimons
Act 2:
Making Money the Old Fashioned Way
–
Mary Beth Kirshner
Act 3:
The First Starting from Scratch
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Episode 234
– "Say Anything"
Act 1:
How to Write a Note
–
Jake Warga
Act 2:
The Battle of Words vs Fear
–
Michael Bernard Loggins
Act 3:
When a City Opens its Big Mouth
Act 4:
Wedding Bells and Door Bells
–
Elizabeth Gilbert
and
Jonathan Goldstein
Episode 235
– "The Balloon Goes Up"
Act 1:
Bombs over Baghdad
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army
Act 3:
What's French for French Fries?
–
David Sedaris
Act 4:
Fighting the Previous War
–
Sarah Vowell
Act 5:
What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime
–
Lee Sandlin
Act 6:
Lessons from Ancient Wars
–
Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
Episode 236
– "My Two Cents"
Act 1:
Dave Knows
–
Susan Drury
Act 2:
Stock Making Sense
–
Alex Blumberg
Act 3:
A View from the Mop
–
Greg Tate
Episode 237
– "Regime Change"
Act 1:
Unconquerable
–
Katie Davis
Act 2:
Or Give Me Death
–
Sarah Koenig
Act 3:
The Heart is a Lonely Junta
–
Ira Glass
and
Jeffrey Brown
Episode 238
– "Lost in Translation"
Act 1:
The Chasm Between Comedy and Music
–
Jonathan Goldstein
and
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
Star of Bethlehem
–
Nancy Updike
Act 3:
Translating for the Very, Very, Very, Very Tall
–
Jesse Hardman
Episode 239
– "Lost in America"
Act 1:
Losing It
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler
–
Sarah Vowell
Act 3:
I Found Your Letter
–
Davy Rothbart
Episode 240
– "I'm In Charge Now"
Act 1:
It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild
–
David Sedaris
Act 2:
Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues
–
Katy Vine
Act 3:
You Talkin' to Me?
–
Adam Davidson
Episode 241
– "20 Acts in 60 Minutes"
Act 1:
Don't I Know You?
–
Tate Donovan
and
Starlee Kine
Act 2:
No of Course I Know You
–
Scott Carrier
Act 3:
It's Commerce that Brings Us Together
–
Susan Drury
Act 4:
The Sound of One Hand Waving
–
Patty Martin
Act 5:
The Sound of No Hands Clapping
–
Viki Merrick
,
Eric Kipp
, and
Jay Allison
Act 6:
Reaching Out with Radio
– "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
Act 7:
Up Where the Air is Clear
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 8:
The Greatest Dog Name in the World
– Valion Loetz, Paris Loetz and Katie Adone
Act 9:
Of Dogs and Men
–
Elaine Boehm
and
Jim Sultzer
Act 10:
Untitled
–
Neo-Futurists
Act 11:
Etiquette Lesson
–
David Sedaris
Act 12:
To Tell the Truth
–
Brent Runyon
Act 13:
More Lies
–
Catharyn and Ira Glass
Act 14:
Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids
–
Ira Glass
Act 15:
Mr. Prediction
–
David Rakoff
Act 16:
That One Guy at the Office
– ?
Drewdanna Gustafson
?
Act 17:
You Can't Choose Your Gift
– ?
Richard Carry
? and
Jim Sultzer
Act 18:
Party Talk
–
Chuck Klosterman
Act 19:
The Hard Life at the Top
–
David Lipsky
Act 20:
The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage
–
Ira Glass
Episode 242
– "Enemy Camp"
Act 1:
Confession
–
Carl Marziali
Act 2:
Blood Agent
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
And I Love Her
–
Etgar Keret
Act 4:
Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership
–
Blue Chevigny
Episode 243
– "Later That Same Day"
Act 1:
The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends
–
Scott Carrier
Act 2:
Scrapbook, the Verb
Act 3:
Slingshot
–
John Hodgman
Episode 244
– "MacGyver"
Act 1:
Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Files in Cakes, Ha!
–
Angelo
Act 3:
So Crazy It Just Might Work
–
Elizabeth Gilbert
Act 4:
A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable
–
Susan Burton
Episode 245
– "Allure of the Mean Friend"
Act 1:
Return to the Scene of the Crime
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
Does Niceness Pay?
–
Ira Glass
Act 3:
And What's Going on With You?
–
Mike Albo
and
Virginia Heffernan
Act 4:
Keeping It in the Family
–
Bernard Cooper
Episode 246
– "My Pen Pal"
Act 1:
Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"?
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Pen Pal Husband
–
Janice Powell
Episode 247
– "What Is This Thing?"
Act 1:
Inside the Romance Industry
–
Robin Epstein
Act 2:
View from the Other Half
–
Griffin Hansbury
Act 3:
A Love Story
–
Sarah Vowell
Episode 248
– "Like It Or Not"
Prologue –
David Rakoff
Act 1:
If It Drives, Go Live
–
Starlee Kine
follows up on a 2001 low speed car chase in
Los Angeles
Act 2:
Don't Just Stand There
–
Sheila Peabody
Act 3:
Hello, Baby
–
David Rakoff
Act 4:
On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce
–
Curtis Sittenfeld
on a
Mobile Bay jubilee
Episode 249
– "Garbage"
Act 1:
Oh, Mr. San Man
–
Ira Glass
Act 2:
Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You
–
Luis Urrea
Act 3:
"I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."
Episode 250
– "The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice"
Act 1:
Rock, Paper, Computer
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
Detroit Is In the House
–
Alex Blumberg
Act 3:
Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero
–
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Episode 251
– "Brother's Keeper"
Act 1:
Whatever Happened to Baby Cain?
–
Jonathan Goldstein
Act 2:
This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
–
Nancy Updike
Act 3:
Neighbor's Keeper
–
Robert Kurson
Episode 252
– "Poultry Slam '03"
Act 1:
Duki
Act 2:
Winged Warrior
Act 3:
Chicken Diva
–
Jack Hitt
Act 4:
Trying to Respect the Chicken
–
Ira Glass
Episode 253
– "The Middle of Nowhere"
Act 1:
No Island Is An Island
–
Jack Hitt
Act 2:
On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream
–
Julie Snyder
Episode 254
– "Teenage Embed, Part Two"
Act 1:
Part One
–
Hyder Akbar
Act 2:
Part Two
–
Hyder Akbar
Episode 255
– "This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide"
Act 1:
Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom
–
Ian Brown
Act 2:
A Christmas Memory
Act 3:
Secret Santa
–
Caitlin Shetterly
External links
This American Life
'
s radio archive for 2003
v
t
e
This American Life
Personalities
Ira Glass
Jay Allison
Shalom Auslander
Elna Baker
Mike Birbiglia
Alex Blumberg
Scott Carrier
Adam Davidson
Emmanuel Dzotsi
Dishwasher Pete
Jonathan Goldstein
Jack Hitt
John Hodgman
Starlee Kine
Sarah Koenig
Jon Langford
Sandra Tsing Loh
Heather O'Neill
David Rakoff
Jon Ronson
Davy Rothbart
Dan Savage
David Sedaris
Curtis Sittenfeld
Karen Sosnoski
Julia Sweeney
Nancy Updike
Sarah Vowell
Episode lists
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Individual episodes
"
The Giant Pool of Money
"
"
81 Words
"
"
Very Tough Love
"
Albums
This American Life: Hand It Over – Stories from Our First Year on the Air
Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes: The Best of This American Life
Crimebusters + Crossed Wires: Stories from This American Life
Stories of Hope and Fear
Adaptations
The Informant!
Unaccompanied Minors
Sleepwalk with Me
21 Chump Street
Crown Heights
Come Sunday
Ode to Joy
American Dreamer
Related articles
TV series
Serial
S-Town
The Trojan Horse Affair
Public Radio Exchange
Public Radio International
Chicago Public Media
WBEZ
Category
Categories
:
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2003 in radio
2003-related lists
Hidden categories:
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