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This American Life: Love Is A Battlefield. From This American Life: Alix Spiegel tells the story of a couple, Heidi and Rick Solomon, who adopt a son who was raised in terrible circumstances in a Romanian orphanage, unable to feel attachments to anyone…and what they do about it. Alix reports on mental health for NPR. (27 minutes)

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HowSound: Love Is A Battlefield
Rob Rosenthal interviews Invisibilia’s Alix Spiegel about her story “Love Is A Battlefield,” and the massive planning and interview prep that can go into making a great radio story.

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Jack Hitt tells the story of a small town production of Peter Pan, in which the flying apparatus smacks the actors into the furniture, and Captain Hook’s hook flies off his arm and hits an old woman in the stomach. By the end of the evening, firemen have arrived and all the normal boundaries between audience and actors have completely dissolved

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Bring Extra Batteries! The Audio Gospel According to Rob Rosenthal
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Kaitlin Prest makes radical radio at The Heart. She brings voice to the thoughts, that even when we’re not keeping them to ourselves, we’re definitely not putting on the air.

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In the 1950s, the Swan Silvertones turned the old spiritual “Mary, Don’t You Weep” into a recording that has inspired everyone from Paul Simon to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

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The pursuit of lock picking is as old as the lock, which is itself as old as civilization. But in the entire history of the world, there was only one brief moment, lasting about 70 years, where you could put something under lock and key — a chest, a safe, your home — and have complete, unwavering certainty that no intruder could get to it.

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Susanne and Mike met and fell in love with each other…and heroin. They stuck together through addiction and recovery, but things haven’t fallen into place the way they had hoped. Love

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The Invisible World of This American Life made visible.

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“I went down to the nurse’s station, and when I asked, they freaked out. Everything went into a panic. It was pure chaos.”

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In 1996 Bill Clinton ended welfare as we knew it, requiring poor people to get a job instead of a handout. The new policy was based on a successful pilot program in Riverside, California. But what it was all a mistake? csm_Welfare_work_5a825baf69

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There’s a black hole in the middle of the history of life: how did we go from tiny bags of chemicals to the vast menagerie of creatures we see around us?

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She faced an expectant audience, placed her hands on a keyboard in front of her, and then played something the world had never really heard before. A synthesized voice. maxresdefault

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What lies beyond the reach of the naked eye, and how do these hidden forces shape our lives?

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Marlo Mack gave birth to a son. At least, she thought she did. But her son crawled towards dresses, wanted to be a princess, and asked to grow long blonde hair. At age 3, Marlo’s son asked to go back into mommy’s tummy, so he could come back out as a baby girl. Marlo thought it was a phase–it wasn’t.

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How much would it take for someone to hack your life? And really, how worried do you actually need to be?

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Is the viral sensation “pizza rat” all a big con conducted by a robe-wearing performance artist named Zardulu?
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99% Invisible and Vox team up to explain the mysterious workings of the door…

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In 1891, a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts invented the game we would come to know as basketball. In setting the height of the baskets, he inadvertently created a design problem that would not be resolved for decades to come.
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854 Is someone who gives a cop the finger a brave defender of free-speech? Or just an adolescent jerk?

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Gentrification is something everyone is talking about, but what is it? When a neighborhood changes, how does it happen and why? And who decides?

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A father of twin teenage boys finds the internet a scary place for impressionable minds.

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Before Kathleen Hanna, there was riot grrrl Alice Bag, lead screamer for the early LA punk band The Bags. Growing up a misfit led Alice to find her own place in the punk scene.tumblr_mj9lp9tUBb1s59paio2_500

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All over New York City, there is a woman in various states of undress, so baked into architecture that we barely even notice her.

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There’s no scientific metric for measuring a city’s personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city.
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Writer (and iconoclast) Jiayang Fan argues that dumplings are overrated. Can a group of architects improve the design of Lunar New Year’s beloved comfort food?

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Lincolns used to be the coolest cars in the world. They used to be driven by kings, moguls and celebrities. Today, Lincolns are driven by the old, the out-of-touch, and the guys hustling you at the airport.
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A young woman falls ill, enters the hospital, receives a devastating diagnosis… and switches on her tape recorder. hospital

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