This American Life is a weekly radio show on NPR. Each week the show will focus on a certain theme with multiple stories on that theme. This is one of my favorite radio shows to listen to because it is about real people and their everyday lives. The stories are funny, happy, sad, informative and, sometimes, just plain weird; however they are all relatable.
It is difficult to explain, so here is a section from the website -
"We think of the show as journalism. One of the people who helped start the program, Paul Tough, says that what we're doing is applying the tools of journalism to everyday lives, personal lives. Which is true. It's also true that the journalism we do tends to use a lot of the techniques of fiction: scenes and characters and narrative threads.
"Meanwhile, the fiction we have on the show functions like journalism: it's fiction that describes what it's like to be here, now, in the world. What we like are stories that are both funny and sad. Personal and sort of epic at the same time.
"We sometimes think of our program as a documentary show for people who normally hate documentaries. A public radio show for people who don't necessarily care for public radio."
Check out thisamericanlife.org
It is definitely worth listening to.
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