List of 1995 This American Life episodes

List of 1995 This American Life episodes

In 1995, there were seven This American Life episodes; all were broadcast under the original name of the program "Your Radio Playhouse."

*TAL episode|95|1|New Beginnings:Our program's very first broadcast - 1995-11-17:*Prologue - Ira Glass seeks advice from long-time talk show host Joe Franklin (10 minutes).:Dinah Washington - "Destination Moon":*Act 1 - Kevin Kelly (22 minutes)::Kevin Kelly has a sort of religious experience in Jerusalem and decides to live the next six months of his life to the fullest. This plot was revisited for episode 50 - Shoulda Been Dead:*Act 2 - Ira Glass (seven minutes)::Ira calls his parents in for advice about broadcasting.:*Act 3 - Lawrence Steger (11 minutes)::Steger recounts a road trip he and a friend took after hearing about Steger's HIV diagnosis.:The Treniers - "(Uh-Oh) Get Out of the Car" :*Act 4 - Ed Ryder, interviewed by Ira Glass and Nancy Updike (six minutes)::Ryder was wrongly imprisoned for twenty years and recently released, and he discusses dream of playing music.:Ed Ryder - "God Bless the Child"::This performance was re-broadcast in episode 119 - Lock-Up:Django Reinhardt - "I've Had My Moments"
*TAL episode|95|2|Small Scale Sin:Small-scale stories on the nature of small-scale sin - 1995-11-24:*Act 1::Three teenagers who committed credit card fraud tell their stories.:*Act 2::Playwright Jeff Dorchen writes a play about the previous act.:*Act 3 - Ira Glass::Glass interviews poet Michael Warr who discusses his childhood as a Jehovah's Witness.:*Act 4 - ::A member of the hacking group MOD discusses his arrest and imprisonment and his success as a criminal.
*TAL episode|95|3|Poultry Slam:Stories decrying the wonders of turkeys, chickens, and other fowl - 1995-12-01
*TAL episode|95|4|Vacations:Stories about vacations gone awry—or perhaps vacations that never should have happened - 1995-12-08
*TAL episode|95|5|Anger & Forgiveness:Stories that reveal the societal "trend" toward anger and away from genuine forgiveness - 1995-12-15
*TAL episode|95|6|Christmas:A Christmas radio play by David Sedaris and the Pinetree Gang - 1995-12-22
*TAL episode|95|7|Quitting:Stories of people who quit everything in their lives that they hated—and what happened to them afterwards - 1995-12-29:*Prologue/Act 1 - Ira Glass talks to Evan Harris about "Quitter Quarterly" zine, which she founded with Shelley Ross, and the nature of "the quit" (20:45):*Ella Fitzgerald, "Don't Fence Me In":*Act 2 - Sandra Tsing Loh (7:40):*Brave Combo, "Do Something Different (Disappear)":*Act 3: "Shut Up, Little Man" - Ira Glass on [http://members.aol.com/leesausage/shut_up.html an unusual CD] of bickering and fighting (8:20):*Act 4.1: "Work" - Lisa Buscani (5:55):*Robert Metrick, "The Calendar Song" (3:15):*Act 4.2: "Love" - Lisa Buscani (3:50):*Act 5: "Farewell Samba" - Dwight Okita reads this poem from his book "Crossing with the Light" (ISBN 0-9624287-9-5) (1:35):*Act 6: "Poetry of Departures" - a poem by Philip Larkin, read by Ira Glass (1:15)

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=1995 This American Life's radio archive for 1995]

ee also

*List of 1996 This American Life episodes
*List of 1997 This American Life episodes
*List of 1998 This American Life episodes
*List of 1999 This American Life episodes
*List of 2000 This American Life episodes
*List of 2001 This American Life episodes
*List of 2002 This American Life episodes
*List of 2003 This American Life episodes
*List of 2004 This American Life episodes
*List of 2005 This American Life episodes
*List of 2006 This American Life episodes
*List of 2007 This American Life episodes
*List of 2008 This American Life episodes
*List of This American Life (TV series) episodes


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