Father's Day '96

#26 - 14 June 1996

Ira's own father Barry Glass co-hosts this special father's day edition of the show.

Basketball

#25 - 7 June 1996

A set of documentary stories, radio essays and monologues about basketball, the Chicago Bulls, and their grip on Chicagoans' hearts and lives during the NBA Playoffs.

Teenaged Girls

#24 - 24 May 1996

Stories of girls who have to figure out how they're going to act when the ground rules are constantly shifting.

Drama Bug

#23 - 10 May 1996

Stories of the people who fall for a life in the theater.

Adult Children

#22 - 3 May 1996

Stories of the difficult relationships between parents and their grown children, including two long stories from Sandra Tsing Loh about her father.

Factions

#21 - 26 April 1996

A show about something most people have gone through. Friends get together to start a business, start a church, do political action together. And after a while, they start fighting and split up. We hear three true stories.

From A Distance

#20 - 19 April 1996

Stories of hero worship, of people admiring someone from afar, and trying to get closer to them.

Rich Guys

#19 - 12 April 1996

Men who had comfortable, decent lives, yet decided to do something wild and eccentric with their lives instead.

Liars

#18 - 28 March 1996

April first is the one day of the year when we're allowed to enjoy deceiving others. But April Fools' Day is for amateur deceivers. The real pros are the people who can't control their lying, who lie without even knowing what the truth is.

Name Change / No Theme

#17 - 21 March 1996

Our first show as This American Life.