Description: A Texas rancher resuscitates a beloved pet, but the animal later turns on him…a fourteen-year-old boy from Massachusetts resolves, against improbable odds, never to fall in love… a Virginia politician attempts the impossible: winning an election without telling a single lie…an accidental discovery that erases memories leads the desperate to contact a team of New York neuroscientists to get their minds wiped clean…

Funny, real, surprising, unscripted, true… it's "This American Life".

Compelling stories like these are explored every day on "This American Life," the nearly 15-year-old, award-winning public radio show that boasts a devoted weekly listening audience of 1.7 million, and is heard on more than 500 stations nationally. The series, created in 1995 by host and executive producer Ira Glass, pioneered a unique way of telling stories on the radio. Its first-person telling of these revealing stories makes the radio series a great fit for television.

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