List of 1997 This American Life episodes

List of 1997 This American Life episodes

In 1997, there were forty This American Life episodes.

*TAL episode|97|48|Justice
*TAL episode|97|49|Animals
**Prologue
**Act 1: "Food Chain in a New York Apartment" - Paul Tough
**Act 2: "More Animals Eating Other Animals" - David Sedaris
**Act 3: " The Moment Humans Stopped Being Animals" - Scott Carrier
*TAL episode|97|50|Shoulda Been Dead
*TAL episode|97|51|Animals Die, People Ponder
*TAL episode|97|52|Edge of Sanity
*TAL episode|97|53|Valentine's Day '97
*TAL episode|97|54|Sinatra
*TAL episode|97|55|Three Women and the Sex Industry
*TAL episode|97|56|Name Change
*TAL episode|97|57|Delivery
*TAL episode|97|58|Small Towns
*TAL episode|97|59|Fire
*TAL episode|97|60|Business of Death
*TAL episode|97|61|Fiasco!
**Prologue: "What Makes a Fiasco?"
**Act 1: "Opening Night"
**Act 2: "What We Wanted to Do"
**Act 3: "Car Wars"
**Act 4: "Fiascoes as a Force for Good in this World"
*TAL episode|97|62|Something for Nothing
*TAL episode|97|63|One Thing
*TAL episode|97|64|Summer
*TAL episode|97|65|Who's Canadian
*TAL episode|97|66|Tales from the Net
*TAL episode|97|67|Your Dream, My Nightmare
*TAL episode|97|68|Lincoln's Second Inaugural
*TAL episode|97|69|Dreamhouse
**Act #1: "Meema's Adventures" - Meema Spadola
**Act #2: "Blue Sky Dreams" - David Beers
*TAL episode|97|70|Other People's Mail
*TAL episode|97|71|Defying Sickness
*TAL episode|97|72|Trek
*TAL episode|97|73|Blame it on Art
**Act 1: "Life in a Bubble"
**Act 2: "Still Life" - David Sedaris reads a version of his story "Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist," from his collection "Me Talk Pretty One Day"
**Act 3: "Reverb"
**Act 4: "Grace Note"
*TAL episode|97|74|Conventions
*TAL episode|97|75|Kindness of Strangers
*TAL episode|97|76|Mob
*TAL episode|97|77|Pray
*TAL episode|97|78|How Bad is Bad?
*TAL episode|97|79|Stuck in the Wrong Decade
*TAL episode|97|80|Running After Antelope
**Show description: Stories of people engaged in a battle with nature, a battle they don't stand much chance of winning.
**Prologue: Chris McKinney, a boy scout trying to singlehandedly stop erosion on a Virginia beach
**Act #1: "Running After Antelope" - Scott Carrier
***Scott Carrier talks about trying to chase down and catch an antelope
**Act #2: "Natural Distaster"
***How an audience of children derailed talk show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien".
*TAL episode|97|81|Guns
**Show description: How guns affect us.
**Prologue: Ira Glass reads an open letter advertisement from "American Handgunner"
**Act #1: "NRA meets NEA" - Sarah Vowell
***Sarah Vowell talks about firing off a homemade cannon with her father
**Act #2: "Fists and Guns" - Geoffry Canada
***Geoffry Canada, author of the book "Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America", talks about what it's like to carry a gun.
**Act #3: "Shooter" - Bryan Magnus
***Bryan Magnus with a quintessential gun story from his childhood in Wisconsin
**Act #4: "Po-tay-to, Po-ta-to" -
***Two people who've nearly died in gun battles, Mike Robbins, a Chicago police officer and Suzanna Gratia-Hupp, a Texas chiropractor, draw opposite conclusions from their near-death experiences.
**Act #5: "Strawman" - Tori Marlan
***Chicago writer Tori Marlan with a man who sold guns to criminals for two years.
*TAL episode|97|82|Haunted by Ghosts
*TAL episode|97|83|One of Us
*TAL episode|97|84|Harold
*TAL episode|97|85|Poultry Slam '97
*TAL episode|97|86|How To Take Money From Strangers
*TAL episode|97|87|A Very Special Sedaris Christmas
*Stories from David Sedaris's book "Holidays on Ice" (ISBN 0-316-77998-9), recorded live at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles
**Prologue - Ira Glass
**Act 1: "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol" - read by David Sedaris
**Act 2: "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!" - read by Julia Sweeney
**Act 3:
***"Dickens vs. Sedaris" - Ira Glass, John Jordan, and David Sedaris
***"Based on a True Story" - read by Matt Malloy

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=1997 This American Life's radio archive for 1997]

ee also

*List of 1995 This American Life episodes
*List of 1996 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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