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#47 - 20 December 1996
Stories about the intersection of Christmas and retail, including David Sedaris's story "Santaland Diaries," which was first broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition many years ago in a much shorter version.
#46 - 13 December 1996
Though being gay no longer has much of a stigma in some parts of the country, being a sissy still does — even among gay men. In this show we have a number of surprising and unusual stories of sissies, their families, and why people still get so upset about them.
#45 - 6 December 1996
Four stories about people struggling at the fringes of our nation's media/music/infotainment industry.
#44 - 29 November 1996
In the midst of the five biggest poultry-consumption weeks of the year—the five weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when Americans consume one-fourth of all the turkey they eat in a year—This American Life presents stories about turkeys, chickens, ducks, and fowl of all kinds.
#43 - 22 November 1996
Inspired by a spate of new Chicago stage adaptations of the Faust story, This American Life brings you stories of people who made a deal with the devil.
#42 - 15 November 1996
Three stories of people trying to forget the past and move on.
#41 - 8 November 1996
More stories of the election you can't hear anywhere else.
#40 - 1 November 1996
Stories from acclaimed storyteller Spalding Gray and others.
#39 - 25 October 1996
This week: A show for Halloween. Stories of things that are supposed to be scary, but aren't.
#38 - 11 October 1996
Simulated worlds, Civil war reenactments, wax museums, simulated coal mines, fake ethnic restaurants, an ersatz Medieval castle and other re-created worlds that thrive all across America. (4 minutes)
