Third Act is a really good: "In order to make foie gras - goose liver - the birds have to be treated inhumanely, strapped down and force-fed huge amounts of food. So when a chef named Dan Barber heard about Eduardo Sousa, a Spaniard who had supposedly found a way to make foie gras without mistreating the animals, Dan didn’t believe it… until he went to Spain to investigate. Dan runs the New York restaurant"
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Father’s Day 2011 | This American Life
Yes yes yes you've heard it all before, when it comes to stories of fathers and their children. There's the story of the kid who idolizes his dad, but then learns something and becomes disappointed. Or the opposite story, where the kid gives up on his dad when he's still young, and then much later comes to have a grudging respect.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/438/fathers-day-2011
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Three Kinds of Deception | This American Life
A story of self-deception, a story about deceiving others, and a story about accidental deception. And how one type of deception can easily turn into another.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/173/three-kinds-of-deception
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This American Life #37: The Job That Takes Over Your Life
Radio producer Scott Carrier quit his job at a low moment in his life. His wife left him and took the kids. And he got a job interviewing schizophrenics for some medical researchers. After doing it a while, he began to wonder if he was a schizophrenic himself. And more stories.
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