This American Life (Unofficial)

14: Accidental Documentaries 21.02.1996 ↓

What unites these stories on the surface is that they're all made from old tapes, recordings found in attics and thrift stores. What unites them under that surface — and not far under it — is that they all end up being stories about fathers and the legacies that fathers leave their children.

13: Love 07.02.1996 ↓

Explorations of the dream of true love and the difficulties with achieving and maintaining that dream.

12: Animals 31.01.1996 ↓

Stories about the animalness of animals, the irreducible ways in which they are not human.

11: Enemies 24.01.1996 ↓

A story of a friendship between two adolescent boys that was destroyed through the manipulative acts of one of them.

10: Double Lives 17.01.1996 ↓

People living their lives, just like the rest of us. Plus an extra life.

9: Julia Sweeney 10.01.1996 ↓

When comedian Julia Sweeney and her brother both got cancer, she decided to tell the story the best way she knew how: in a comedy club. It might seem like a strange choice, but what resulted is halfway between standup comedy and true-life diary entries.

8: New Year 03.01.1996 ↓

Stories that reflect back on 1995.

7: Quitting 29.12.1995 ↓

Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards.

5: Anger and Forgiveness 15.12.1995 ↓

Stories that reveal the societal "trend" toward anger and away from genuine forgiveness.

4: Vacations 08.12.1995 ↓

Stories about vacations gone awry—or perhaps vacations that never should have happened.

3: Poultry Slam 1995 01.12.1995 ↓

Stories decrying the wonders of turkeys, chickens, and other fowl.

2: Small Scale Sin 24.11.1995 ↓

Small-scale stories on the nature of small-scale sin.

1: New Beginnings 17.11.1995 ↓

Our program's very first broadcast.