This American Life

If you love a good story, you'll love the podcasts from This American Life. Ira Glass of WBEZ, Chicago National Public Radio, is the host. He describes his program like this:

We do stories that are like movies for radio. There are people in dramatic situations where things happen to them. There are funny moments and emotional moments and – hopefully – moments where the people in the story say interesting, surprising things about it all. It has to be surprising. It has to be fun. There are shows on public radio with no sense of fun or surprise and we hate those shows.

Until recently you could only listen online, but now you can download the current episodes as podcasts. The archives are still available for streaming.