List of 2005 This American Life episodes

In 2005, there were twenty-six This American Life episodes.

*TAL episode|05|280|In Country
**Show description: On the experiences of United States National Guard reservists and Marines in post-invasion Iraq
**Act 1: "When Weekend Warriors Work on Weekdays" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Marine Life" - Jack Hitt
*TAL episode|05|281|My Big Break
**Show description: On personal struggles leading to unexpected success or failure
**Act 1: "Take My Break, Please" - David Segal
**Act 2: "What Happens in Baghdad, Stays in Baghadad" - Jen Banbury
**Act 3: "Oedipus Hex" - Shalom Auslander
*TAL episode|05|282|DIY
**Show description: An entire episode of a story about the wrongful murder conviction of Collin Warner. After 21 years in prison, Warner's friends managed to prove Warner's innocence and free him from jail.
**Act 1: "Untitled" - Anya Bourg
**Act 2: "The story of Collin Warner continues"
*TAL episode|05|283|Remember Me
**Act 1: "Thinking inside the box" - David Wilcox
**Act 2: "Where's Walter?" - Starlee Kine
**Act 3: "Giving up the ghosts" - Shalom Auslander
*TAL episode|05|284|Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
**Act 1: "The Karachi kid"
**Act 2: "Not far from the tree" - Amy O'Leary
**Act 3: "Because I'm the mommy, that's why"
*TAL episode|05|285|Know Your Enemy
**Act 1: "The Minister Meets the Martyr"
**Act 2: "I Am Curious, Jello" - David Segal
**Act 3: "Eight Percent of Nothing" - Etgar Keret
*TAL episode|05|286|Mind Games
**Act 1: "Untitled" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "The Spy Who Loved Everyone" - Jorge Just
**Act 3: "Invisible Girl" - Scott Carrier
*TAL episode|05|287|Backed Into a Corner
**Act 1: "Working Class Hero Sandwich" - Shirleen Holt
**Act 2: "Don't Drive Like My Brother" - Jonathan Menjivar
**Act 3: "Confessions of a Not-So-Dangerous Mind" - Brian Montopoli
*TAL episode|05|288|Not What I Meant
**Act 1: "Froggy Goes A-Courtin"' - Gabrielle Galanek
**Act 2: "Cat Got Your Tongue" - David Sedaris
**Act 3: "Romance Languages" - Ben Karlin
*TAL episode|05|289|Go Ask Your Father
**Act 1: "Make Him Say Uncle" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "My Favorite Martian" - Paul Tough
*TAL episode|05|290|Godless America
**Act 1: "The Substance of Things Hoped For"
**Act 2: "God Said, Huh?" - Julia Sweeney
*TAL episode|05|291|Reunited (and It Feels So Good)
**Act 1: "Not Your Parents' Parent Trap" - Nazanin Rafsanjani
**Act 2: "If By Chance We Meet Again" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "French Kiss" - Sarah Vowell
*TAL episode|05|292|The Arms Trader
**Prologue - Ira Glass on the Lackawanna 6
**Act 1: Petra Bartosiewicz on the arrest and conviction of Hemant Lakhani
**Act 2: continuation of Act 1
*TAL episode|05|293|A Little Bit of Knowledge
**Prologue: Ira Glass and Nancy Updike
**Act 1: "Small Thoughts in Big Brains" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 2: "And Daddy Makes Three" - Dan Savage
**Act 3: "Sucker MC-Square" - Robert Andrew Powell
**Act 4: "The Art of Adult Conversation" - Alexa Junge
*TAL episode|05|294|Image Makers
**Act 1: "Dewey Decibel System" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 2: "Goldstein on Goldstein" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 3: "Hearth Shaped Box" - Julie Hill
*TAL episode|05|295|Not What I Signed Up For
**Act 1: "The Double Whammy" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Small Fish, Smaller Pond" - Nick Hornby
*TAL episode|05|296|After the Flood
**Show description: Stories from survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
**Prologue: Ira Glass interviews William Nichelson about the role of state and federal authorities
**Act 1: "Middle of Somewhere" - Ira Glass interviews Denise Moore, a hurricane survivor
**Music interlude: Memphis Minnie, "When the Levee Breaks"
**Act 2: "Forgotten, But Not Lost" - Alex Blumberg interviews Lorrie Beth Slonsky and Debbie Zelinsky about an occurrence at the Pontchartrain Expressway bridge
**Music interlude: Fats Domino, "Walking to New Orleans"
**Act 3: "Social Studies Lesson" - Alex Blumberg interviews Ashley Nelson
**Ray Charles, "Them That Got"
**Act 4: "Diaspora" - Cheryl Wagner
**Act 5: "Displaced Persons Camp" - Lisa Pollak interviews survivors of Hurricane Charley in Florida
*TAL episode|05|297|This Is Not My Beautiful House
**Show description: Stories from the Houston Astrodome and New Orleans about survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
**Act 1: "Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow" - Jane Feltes
**Act 2: "No Place Like Dome" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Land Grab" - Lisa Pollak
**Act 4: "The Long Way Home" - Nick Spitzer
**Act 5: "Water Bed" - Alex Kotlowitz
*TAL episode|05|298|Getting and Spending
**Act 1: "Mothers of Invention" - Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Drozdowska-McGuire
**Act 2: "That Guy" - Diane Cook
**Act 3: "Mall Rat" - John Hodgman
*TAL episode|05|299|Back From The Dead
**Act 1: "In the Event of An Emergency" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "'P' Is For Porta-Potty" - Sarah Koenig
**Act 3: " Friday Night Floodlights" - Lisa Pollak
*TAL episode|05|300|What's in a Number?
**Act 1: "Truth, Damn Truth, and Statistics" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 2: "Not Just a Number" - Ryan Gist
**Act 3: "What do we do with these numbers anyway?" - Ira Glass
*TAL episode|05|301|Settling the Score
**Air date: November 11, 2005
**Prologue - Ira Glass
**Act 1: "One Good Deed" - Erin Einhorn
**Act 2: "The Things That Money Can Buy" - Beau O'Reilly
*TAL episode|05|302|Strangers in a Strange Land
**Air date: November 18, 2005
**Prologue - Ira Glass
**Act 1: "Not Just Tourists, Tourists Who Care" - Chris Tenove
**Act 2: "Johnny Get Your Mouse" - Amy O'Leary
*TAL episode|05|303|David and Goliath
**Act 1: "Lab Rugrats" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Dreams of Distant Factories" - Rachel Louise Snyder
**Act 3: "Adventures at Poo Corner" - David Sedaris
*TAL episode|05|304|Heretics
**Act 1: "Rise" - Russell Cobb
**Act 2: "Fall"
*TAL episode|05|305|The "This American Life" Holiday Spectacular
**Act 1: "Twas the Morning After" - David Rakoff
**Act 2: "No Tenenbaum, No Tenenbaum" - John Hodgman
**Act 3: "My So-Called Jesus" - Heather O'Neill
**Act 4: "An Animal Farm Christmas" - David Sedaris
**Act 5: "Christmas at Valley Forge" - Sarah Vowell
**Act 6: "What Would Joseph Do?" - Jonathan Goldstein

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2005 This American Life's radio archive for 2005]

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 2006 This American Life episodes
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*List of 2008 This American Life episodes
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