This weekend, This American Life meets Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!
From the This American Life website:
30 Acts in 60 Minutes. Instead of the regular “each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme” business, this week we throw all that away and bring you thirty stories, yes thirty, in sixty minutes. Or, anyway, that’s our goal. We guarantee at least twenty. David Rakoff, Scott Carrier, The Greatest Dog Name in the World, and more more more. Broadcast the weekend of July 11-13 in most places, or available here next week via RealAudio.
Inspiration for this week’s show came from the Neo-Futurists, whose long-running Chicago show Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind promises 30 Plays in 60 Minutes every single weekend.
Woohoo! Takaza is going to record this one to tape off the air tonight. For those of you wanting to listen to this in the Chicago area, WBEZ broadcasts This American Life Fridays 8-9 PM and Saturdays 2-3 PM. You can also check when it’s on across the world at PublicRadioFan.com and listen in via netcast (PublicRadioFan is da bomb!)
Ooo. I should try and remember to listen, for a change. I like This American Life, but I always forget to tune in. My radio listening tends to happen exclusively in the car.
Already got it from Audible. It’s in my iPod, and in the list of things to listen to.
Yeah, I paid for someting that’s probably free online. Well, it’s convenient (no conversions required for the iPod), and my Basic Listener account gets me a subscription, and an audiobook each month. In fact, I’ve got 44 episodes of This American Life.
Come to think of it, you can buy single episodes at Audible as well.