List of 2001 This American Life episodes

In 2001, there were twenty-seven This American Life episodes.

*TAL episode|01|175|Babysitting
**Act 1: "What Big Teeth You Have" - Hillary Frank
**Act 2: "In the Event of an Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position" - Susan Burton
**Act 3: "Yes There Is A Baby" - Ira Glass
***For their segment "Yes There Is A Baby" Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary
*TAL episode|01|176|Two Nations, One President
*TAL episode|01|177|American Limbo
**Act 1: "The Family That Flees Together, Trees Together" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 2: "What's French for 'Strike Three'?" - Adam Gopnik
**Act 3: "It's Julie Andrews' World, Sylvia Just Lives In It" - Sylvia Lemus and Ira Glass
*TAL episode|01|178|Superpowers
**Act 1: "Invisible Man vs. Hawkman" - John Hodgman
**Act 2: "Wonder Woman" - Kelly McEvers
**Act 3: "The Green Team of Boy Millionaires, Beppo The Amazing Supermonkey from Planet Krypton, and The Man from Sram" - Ira Glass and Jonathan Morris
**Act 4: "The Wonder Twins" - Ira Glass and Jason Bleibtreu
*TAL episode|01|179|Cicero
**Act 1: "Untouchables"
**Act 2: "The Inevitable"
**Act 3: "War By Other Means"
**Act 4: "They Say Our Love is Here to Stay"
*TAL episode|01|180|Return to Childhood
**Act 1: "Once More, With Feeling" - Jonathan Katz
**Act 2: "Punk in a Grey Flannel Suit" - David Philp
**Act 3: "Ich... Bin... Ein .. Mophead" - Alex Blumberg
**Act 4: "Every Day I Forget Something Else" - Nicholson Baker
*TAL episode|01|181|The Friendly Man
**Act 1: "The Test" - Scott Carrier
**Act 2: "The Friendly Man" - Scott Carrier
**Act 3: "Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here?" - Scott Carrier
**Act 4: " The Day Mom and Dad Fell in Love" - Scott Carrier
*TAL episode|01|182|Cringe
**Act 1: "What We Cringe About When We Cringe About Love" - Nancy Updike
**Act 2: "The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe" - Adam Sternberg
**Act 3: "M*A*S*H Notes" - Ira Glass
**Act 4: "Cringe and Purge" - Bruce Jay Friedman
*TAL episode|01|183|The Missing Parents Bureau
**Act 1: "Better Left to the Imagination" - Alix Spiegel
**Act 2: "Tell it to the Void" - Miriam Toews
**Act 3: "I'm an Orphan; Don't Tell My Mom" - Starlee Kine
**Act 4: "Runaway Mom" - Dan Savage
*TAL episode|01|184|Neighbors
**Act 1: "Mr. Rothbart's Neighborhood" - Davy Rothbart
**Music interlude: Bing Crosby, "Dear Hearts and Gentle People"
**Act 2: "The Girl Next Door" - Cheryl Wagner
**Act 3: "The Ratman Cometh" - Katie Davis
**Music interlude: Big Mama Thornton, "I Smell a Rat"
**Music interlude: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, "New Kind of Neighborhood"
*TAL episode|01|185|Golden Calf
**Act 1: "Bowing Before the Famous" - Ann Hepperman
**Act 2: "Thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Don't Have a Golden Cow" - Iggy Scam
*TAL episode|01|186|Prom
**For her segment "Tornado Prom" Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
**Act 1: "Tornado Prom" - Susan Burton
**Act 2: "Save the Last Dance for Me... Again" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Only Two Things Are Certain in Life: Death and Tuxes"
**Act 4: "Only One Thing Missing" - Wendy Dorr - Prom in Racine, Wisconsin
*TAL episode|01|187|Father's Day '01
**Act 1: "Driving the Divorcemobile"
**Act 2: "And If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine" - Ian Brown
**Act 3: "Legend of a Bankrobber's Son" - Nick Flynn
*TAL episode|01|188|Kid Logic
**Act 1: "Baby Scientists with Faulty Data"
**Act 2: "The Game Ain't Over til the Fatso Man Sings" - Howie Chackowicz
**Act 3: "Werewolves in Their Youth" - Michael Chabon
**Act 4: "One Brain Shrinks, Another Brain Grows" - Julie Hill
*TAL episode|01|189|Hitler's Yacht
**Act 1: "Part One" - Alix Spiegel
**Act 2: "Part Two" - Alix Spiegel
*TAL episode|01|190|Living the Dream
**Act 1: "Girls Girls Girls" - Cris Beam
**Act 2: "Agent to the Stars" - John Hodgman
**Act 3: "Airel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me!" - Ira Glass and Adam Davidson
*TAL episode|01|191|I Know What You Did This Summer
**Act 1: "Just Three Thousand More Miles to the Beach" - Scott Carrier
**Act 2: "It's Not the Heat, It's the Humility" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 3: "You Can Have Your Cave and Eat It Too" - Sarah Vowell
*TAL episode|01|192|Meet the Pros
**Act 1: "Crispy with the Rock" - Joel Lovell
**Act 2: "Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Martha My Dear" - David Rakoff
*TAL episode|01|193|Stories of Loss
**Act 1: "The Disappearance" - Genevieve Jurgensen
**Act 2: "Look for the Union Label" - Adrian LeBlanc
**Act 3: "Ashes" - David Sedaris
*TAL episode|01|194|Before and After
**Act 1: "In the After of Before and After" - Lynn Simpson
**Act 2: "Watching from the River's Edge" - David Rakoff
**Act 3: "Notes from the Underground" - Haruki Murakami
**Act 4: "Far From Home" - David Sedaris
**Act 5: "U.S.A., Me-S.A." - Ira Glass and Shirley Jahad
*TAL episode|01|195|War Stories
**Act 1: "The Situation in the Field" - Ira Glass and Tom Gjelten
**Act 2: "Letters to Home" - Andrew Carroll and Estelle Lynch
**Act 3: "What Peacetime Forgets About Wartime" - Lee Sandlin
**Act 4: "Are You Ready?" - Scott Carrier
*TAL episode|01|196|Rashomon
**Act 1: "1001 Arabian Nightly Newscasts" - Julie Snyder
**Act 2: "Bombs over Baghdad" - Issam Shukri
**Act 3: "Toto, I don't Think We're in Vietnam Anymore" - Alex Blumberg
*TAL episode|01|197|Before It Had a Name
**Act 1: "Mr. Boder Vanishes" - Carl Marziali
**Act 2: "Of Course I Remember Your Name" - Heather O'Neill
**Act 3: "A Bad Day for Plates" - Laura Tangusso
**Act 4: "You Call That Love?" - Jonathan Goldstein
*TAL episode|01|198|How to Win Friends and Influence People
**Act 1: "To Make a Friend, Be a Friend" - David Sedaris
**Act 2: "Stay in Touch" - Tami Sagher
**Act 3: "People Like You If You Put a Lot of Time Into Your Appearance" - Luke Burbank
**Act 4: "Just Be Yourself" - Jonathan Goldstein
*TAL episode|01|199|House on Loon Lake
**Act 1: "Part One" - Adam Beckman
**Act 2: "Part Two" - Adam Beckman
*TAL episode|01|200|Hearts and Minds
**Act 1: "Don't Believe Anything You Hear on the Radio" - Nancy Updike
**Act 2: "Live on Stage by the Sword, Die on Stage by the Sword" - Margy Rochlin
*TAL episode|01|201|Them
**Act 1: "My Friend the Extremist" - Jon Ronson
**Act 2: "Don't They Know It's Christmas After All" - David Sedaris
**Act 3: "Newfies" - Chris Brookes
*TAL episode|01|202|Faith
**Act 1: "Adventures in Turning the Other Cheek" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Does Size Matter If You're Talking About a Cross?" - Josh Noel and Alex Blumberg
**Act 3: "The Epiphany Biz" - Bill Lychak
**Act 4: "First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother, and Then Come and Offer Thy Gift" - Susie Putz-Drury

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2001 This American Life's radio archive for 2001]

ee also

*List of 1995 This American Life episodes
*List of 1996 This American Life episodes
*List of 1997 This American Life episodes
*List of 1998 This American Life episodes
*List of 1999 This American Life episodes
*List of 2000 This American Life episodes
*List of 2002 This American Life episodes
*List of 2003 This American Life episodes
*List of 2004 This American Life episodes
*List of 2005 This American Life episodes
*List of 2006 This American Life episodes
*List of 2007 This American Life episodes
*List of 2008 This American Life episodes
*List of This American Life (TV series) episodes