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This American Life
This American Life is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage.
31k subscribers26 posts / mo in Sep 202617 authors / mosince 2008
r/ThisAmericanLife has 31k members (+8.9% over the last 12 months). It gets about 26 posts a month from 17 people. Top topics: Episode Help, Finding Episodes and Best Episodes.
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- Finding Episodes2.6%
- Best Episodes1.6%
- Podcast Episodes1.6%
- Finding Episodes1.4%
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