- List of 2003 This American Life episodes
In 2003, there were twenty-eight
This American Life episodes.*TAL episode|03|228|You Are So Beautiful... To Me
**Act 1: "Polly Wants More Than a Cracker" -Veronica Chater
**Act 2: "On the Border Between Good and Bad" -Russell Banks
*TAL episode|03|229|Secret Government
**Act 1: "Until the End of the War" -Jack Hitt
**Act 2: "Secret Trials and Secret Deportations" -David Kestenbaum
**Act 3: "Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court" -Blue Chevigny
*TAL episode|03|230|Come Back to Afghanistan
**Susan Burton andHyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
**Act 1: "Teenage Embed" -Hyder Akbar andSusan Burton
*TAL episode|03|231|Time to Save the World
**Act 1: "The Rundown" -Starlee Kine
**Act 2: "Heather Help Me" -Jessica Riddle
**Act 3: "Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread"
**Act 4: "The Science of Good and Evil" -Susan Drury
*TAL episode|03|232|The Real Story
**Act 1: "Jarhead" -Anthony Swofford
**Act 2: "What's the Truth Good For, Anyway?" -Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Jar Jar Head" -John Hodgman
*TAL episode|03|233|Starting from Scratch
**Act 1: "Puppy Love" -Molly FitzSimons
**Act 2: "Making Money the Old Fashioned Way" -Mary Beth Kirshner
**Act 3: "The First Starting from Scratch" -Jonathan Goldstein
*TAL episode|03|234|Say Anything
**Act 1: "How to Write a Note" -Jake Warga
**Act 2: "The Battle of Words vs Fear" -Michael Bernard Loggins
**Act 3: "When a City Opens its Big Mouth"
**Act 4: "Wedding Bells and Door Bells" -Elizabeth Gilbert andJonathan Goldstein
*TAL episode|03|235|The Balloon Goes Up
**Act 1: "Bombs over Baghdad" -Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army"
**Act 3: "What's French for French Fries?" -David Sedaris
**Act 4: "Fighting the Previous War" -Sarah Vowell
**Act 5: "What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime" -Lee Sandlin
**Act 6: "Lessons from Ancient Wars" -Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
*TAL episode|03|236|My Two Cents
**Act 1: "Dave Knows" -Susan Drury
**Act 2: "Stock Making Sense" -Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: "A View from the Mop" -Greg Tate
*TAL episode|03|237|Regime Change
**Act 1: "Unconquerable" -Katie Davis
**Act 2: "Or Give Me Death" -Sarah Koenig
**Act 3: "The Heart is a Lonely Junta" -Ira Glass andJeffrey Brown
*TAL episode|03|238|Lost in Translation
**Act 1: "The Chasm Between Comedy and Music" -Jonathan Goldstein andStarlee Kine
**Act 2: "Star of Bethlehem" -Nancy Updike
**Act 3: "Translating for the Very, Very, Very, Very Tall" -Jesse Hardman
*TAL episode|03|239|Lost in America
**Act 1: "Losing It" -Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler" -Sarah Vowell
**Act 3: "I Found Your Letter" -Davy Rothbart
*TAL episode|03|240|I'm In Charge Now
**Act 1: "It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild" -David Sedaris
**Act 2: "Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues" -Katy Vine
**Act 3: "You Talkin' to Me?" -Adam Davidson
*TAL episode|03|241|20 Acts in 60 Minutes
**Act 1: "Don't I Know You?" -Tate Donovan andStarlee Kine
**Act 2: "No of Course I Know You" -Scott Carrier
**Act 3: "It's Commerce that Brings Us Together" -Susan Drury
**Act 4: "The Sound of One Hand Waving" -Patty Martin
**Act 5: "The Sound of No Hands Clapping" -Viki Merrick ,Eric Kipp , andJay Allison
**Act 6: "Reaching Out with Radio" - "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
**Act 7: "Up Where the Air is Clear" -Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 8: "The Greatest Dog Name in the World" - Valion Loetz, Paris Loetz and Katie Adone
**Act 9: "Of Dogs and Men" -Elaine Boehm andJim Sultzer
**Act 10: "Untitled" -Neo-Futurists
**Act 11: "Etiquette Lesson" -David Sedaris
**Act 12: "To Tell the Truth" -Brent Runyon
**Act 13: "More Lies" -Catharyn and Ira Glass
**Act 14: "Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids" -Ira Glass
**Act 15: "Mr. Prediction" -David Rakoff
**Act 16: "That One Guy at the Office" - ?Drewdanna Gustafson ?
**Act 17: "You Can't Choose Your Gift" - ?Richard Carry ? andJim Sultzer
**Act 18: "Party Talk" -Chuck Klosterman
**Act 19: "The Hard Life at the Top" -David Lipsky
**Act 20: "The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage" -Ira Glass
*TAL episode|03|242|Enemy Camp
**Act 1: "Confession" -Carl Marziali
**Act 2: "Blood Agent" -Ira Glass
**Act 3: "And I Love Her" -Etgar Keret
**Act 4: "Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership" -Blue Chevigny
*TAL episode|03|243|Later That Same Day
**Act 1: "The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends" -Scott Carrier
**Act 2: "Scrapbook, the Verb"
**Act 3: "Slingshot" -John Hodgman
*TAL episode|03|244|MacGyver
**Act 1: "Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con" -Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Files in Cakes, Ha!" -Angelo
**Act 3: "So Crazy It Just Might Work" -Elizabeth Gilbert
**Act 4: "A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable" -Susan Burton
*TAL episode|03|245|Allure of the Mean Friend
**Act 1: "Return to the Scene of the Crime" -Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "Does Niceness Pay?" -Ira Glass
**Act 3: "And What's Going on With You?" -Mike Albo andVirginia Heffernan
**Act 4: "Keeping It in the Family" -Bernard Cooper
*TAL episode|03|246|My Pen Pal
**Act 1: "Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"?" -Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Pen Pal Husband" -Janice Powell
*TAL episode|03|247|What Is This Thing?
**Act 1: "Inside the Romance Industry" -Robin Epstein
**Act 2: "View from the Other Half" -Griffin Hansbury
**Act 3: "A Love Story" -Sarah Vowell
*TAL episode|03|248|Like It Or Not
**Prologue -David Rakoff
**Act 1: "If It Drives, Go Live" -Starlee Kine follows up on a 2001 low speed car chase inLos Angeles
**Act 2: "Don't Just Stand There" -Sheila Peabody
**Act 3: "Hello, Baby" -David Rakoff
**Act 4: "On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce" -Curtis Sittenfeld on aMobile Bay jubilee
*TAL episode|03|249|Garbage
**Act 1: "Oh, Mr. San Man" -Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You" -Luis Urrea
**Act 3: "I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."'
*TAL episode|03|250|The Annoying Gap Between Theory and Practice
**Act 1: "Rock, Paper, Computer" -Jack Hitt
**Act 2: "Detroit Is In the House" -Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: "Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero" -Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
*TAL episode|03|251|Brother's Keeper
**Act 1: "Whatever Happened to Baby Cain?" -Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land" -Nancy Updike
**Act 3: "Neighbor's Keeper" -Robert Kurson
*TAL episode|03|252|Poultry Slam '03
**Act 1: "Duki"
**Act 2: "Winged Warrior"
**Act 3: "Chicken Diva" -Jack Hitt
**Act 4: "Trying to Respect the Chicken" -Ira Glass
*TAL episode|03|253|The Middle of Nowhere
**Act 1: "No Island Is An Island" -Jack Hitt
**Act 2: "On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream" -Julie Snyder
*TAL episode|03|254|Teenage Embed, Part Two
**Act 1: "Part One" -Hyder Akbar
**Act 2: "Part Two" -Hyder Akbar
*TAL episode|03|255|This American Life's Holiday Gift-Giving Guide
**Act 1: "Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom" -Ian Brown
**Act 2: "A Christmas Memory"
**Act 3: "Secret Santa" -Caitlin Shetterly External links
* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2003 This American Life's radio archive for 2003]
ee also
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