Dr. Benjamin Gilmer (left) gets a job at a rural clinic. He finds out heâs replaced someone â also named Dr. Gilmer (picture) â who went to prison after killing his own father. But the more Benjaminâs patients talk about the other Dr. Gilmer, the more confused he becomes. Everyone loved the old Dr. Gilmer.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/492/dr-gilmer-and-mr-hyde
The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on disability. Planet Money’s Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/490/trends-with-benefits
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/233/starting-from-scratch
Stories of people stuck in their own personal rerunsâmoments or episodes that they revisit over and over again. You can watch an animated version of Robert Krulwich’s Jackie O story from this episode.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/226/reruns
We pick up where we left off last week in our second hour of stories from Harper High School in Chicago. We find out if a shooting in the neighborhood will derail the school’s Homecoming game and dance. We hear the origin story of one of Harper’s more prominent gangs. And we ask a group of teenage boys: where do you get your guns?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/488/harper-high-school-part-two
We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one
Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/188/kid-logic
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
Calamari is on one side of the plate, sliced hog rectums are on the other. Which is which? We got a tip about a meat plant selling pig intestines as fake calamari, wondered if it could be true, and decided to investigate. Doppelgangers, doubles, evil twins and not-so-evil twins, this week. Fred Armisen co-hosts with Ira Glass.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/484/doppelgangers
The story of Reverend Carlton Pearson, a renowned evangelical pastor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who cast aside the idea of Hell, and with it everything he’d worked for over his entire life.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/304/heretics
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