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 and Hyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
**Act 1: "Teenage Embed" - Hyder Akbar and Susan 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 and Jonathan 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 and Jeffrey Brown
*TAL episode|03|238|Lost in Translation
**Act 1: "The Chasm Between Comedy and Music" - Jonathan Goldstein and Starlee 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 and Starlee 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, and Jay 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 and Jim 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? and Jim 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 and Virginia 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 in Los 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 a Mobile 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

*List of 1995 This American Life episodes
*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
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*List of 2001 This American Life episodes
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*List of 2006 This American Life episodes
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