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This American Life
Saturdays 1:00 pm, Mondays 9:00 pm
The radio show and TV show follow the same format: there's a theme to each episode of This American Life, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but it's sort of hard to describe.