List Of 2003 This American Life Episodes

In 2003, there were 28 ''This American Life'' episodes.

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**Act 1: ''Polly Wants More Than a Cracker'' – Veronica Chater
**Act 2: ''On the Border Between Good and Bad'' – Russell Banks
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**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
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** 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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''Jarhead'' – Anthony Swofford
**Act 2: ''What's the Truth Good For, Anyway?'' – Ira Glass
**Act 3: ''Jar Jar Head'' – John Hodgman
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**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
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**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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''Dave Knows'' – Susan Drury
**Act 2: ''Stock Making Sense'' – Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: ''A View from the Mop'' – Greg Tate
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**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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''Losing It'' – Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: ''Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler'' – Sarah Vowell
**Act 3: ''I Found Your Letter'' – Davy Rothbart
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**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
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**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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends'' – Scott Carrier
**Act 2: ''Scrapbook, the Verb''
**Act 3: ''Slingshot'' – John Hodgman
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**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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"?'' – Ira Glass
**Act 2: ''Pen Pal Husband'' – Janice Powell
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**Act 1: ''Inside the Romance Industry'' – Robin Epstein
**Act 2: ''View from the Other Half'' – Griffin Hansbury
**Act 3: ''A Love Story'' – Sarah Vowell
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**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
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**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."'
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**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
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**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
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**Act 1: ''Duki''
**Act 2: ''Winged Warrior''
**Act 3: ''Chicken Diva'' – Jack Hitt
**Act 4: ''Trying to Respect the Chicken'' – Ira Glass
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**Act 1: ''No Island Is An Island'' – Jack Hitt
**Act 2: ''On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream'' – Julie Snyder
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**Act 1: ''Part One'' – Hyder Akbar
**Act 2: ''Part Two'' – Hyder Akbar
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**Act 1: ''Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom'' – Ian Brown
**Act 2: ''A Christmas Memory''
**Act 3: ''Secret Santa'' – Caitlin Shetterly

External links

''This American Life''s radio archive for 2003

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