This week we return to one of our favorite themes: This Week! All of the stories in the show are things that have taken place in the last seven days.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/497/this-week
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This Week | This American Life
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WNYC Documentary on the year 1913 and its impact on the arts.
What a year was 1913! In an exhibition in a New York Armory, Cubism and abstraction were revealed to the American public for the first time. In Vienna, audience members at a concert of atonal music by Schoenberg and others broke out into a near-riot. And in Paris, Stravinsky and Nijinsky’s new ballet The Rite of Spring burst on stage with famously inflammatory results.
Culture Shock 1913 tells the stories behind these and other ground-breaking events that year, and goes back to consider the years leading up to this mad, Modernist moment. WNYC’s Sara Fishko speaks with thinkers, authors, musicians, art curators and historians about this unsettling, shocking era of sweeping change –and the not-so-subtle ways in which it mirrors our own uncertain age.
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When Patents Attack…Part Two! | This American Life
Two years ago, we did a program about a mysterious business in Texas that threatens companies with lawsuits for violating its patents. But the world of patent lawsuits is so secretive, there were basic questions we could not answer. Now we can.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/when-patents-attackpart-two
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Dr. Gilmer and Mr. Hyde | This American Life
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
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Trends With Benefits | This American Life
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
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Starting from Scratch | This American Life
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
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Reruns | This American Life
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
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Harper High School, Part Two | This American Life
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
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Harper High School, Part One | This American Life
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
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Kid Logic | This American Life
Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/188/kid-logic
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