List of 2002 This American Life episodes

In 2002, there were twenty-five This American Life episodes.

*TAL episode|02|203|Recordings for Someone
**Act 1: "Love Story" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "War Story" - John Brasfield
**Act 3: "Special Effects Story" - Kevin Murphy
**Act 4: "Buddy Picture" - Jonathan Goldstein
*TAL episode|02|204|81 Words
**Show description: Devoted entirely to Alix Spiegel's feature on the removal of homosexuality as a form of mental illness from the DSM-II during the 1973 meeting of the APA. Spiegel won the 2002 Livingston Award for National Reporting for this episode.
**Act 1: "Untitled" - Alix Spiegel
**Act 2: "Untitled" - Alix Spiegel
*TAL episode|02|205|Plan B
**Act 1: "It's Another Tequila Sunrise" - John Hodgman
**Act 2: "Why Talk?" - Starlee Kine
**Act 3: "Kidnapping as Plan B" - Ira Glass
**Act 4: "A Fate Most of Us Fear" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 5: "The Accursed Items" - J. Robert Lennon
*TAL episode|02|206|Somewhere in the Arabian Sea
**Act 1: "Untitled" - Wendy Dorr, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass
*TAL episode|02|207|Special Ed
**Act 1: "Get on the Mic" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Black Hole Son"
**Act 3: "Walkout" - Veronica Chater
*TAL episode|02|208|Office Politics
**Act 1: "Hang In There Kitty Cat, It's Almost Friday" - Starlee Kine
**Act 2: "Sheetcakes in the Conference Room, Whiskey After Dark" - David Rakoff
**Act 3: "When the Job That Takes You Off the Streets Is On The Streets" - Julie Snyder
***A story about the culture and politics of street vendors and panhandlers in New York City
*TAL episode|02|209|Didn't Ask to Be Born
**Act 1: "The chronicle of a family that unravelled" - Debra Gwartney and Sandy Tolan
**Act 2: "Untitled" - Brent Runyon
*TAL episode|02|210|Perfect Evidence
**Act 1: "Hawks and Rabbits" - Shane DuBow
**Act 2: "Snitch"
*TAL episode|02|211|Naming Names
**Act 1: "How Britain Nearly Saved America" - Jon Ronson
**Act 2: "One Crucible Leads to Another" - Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
**Act 3: "Beating the Erasers" - Susan Drury
*TAL episode|02|212|The Other Man
**Act 1: "Psychic Buddha, Qu'est-ce Que C'est" - Davy Rothbart
**Act 2: "The Jackson Two" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Mr. Fun" - Jonathan Goldstein and Heather O'Neill
*TAL episode|02|213|Devil On My Shoulder
**Act 1: "It's Fun to Make Hell on Earth" - George Ratliff
**Act 2: "Sixteen Candles Can Lead to a Lot of Fire" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Devil in Angel's Clothing, or Is It the Other Way Around?" - Sarah Koenig
*TAL episode|02|214|Family Physics
**Act 1: "Occam's Razor" - Cris Beam
**Act 2: "The Trajectory and Force of Bodies in Orbit" - Jon Ronson
**Act 3: "Conservation of Energy and Matter" - David Sedaris
*TAL episode|02|215|Ask An Expert
**Act 1: "An Epidemic Created by Doctors" - Alix Spiegel
**Act 2: "Not Stella Adler, Just Stellllaaah" - Jod Kaftan
*TAL episode|02|216|Give the People What They Want
**Act 1: "Let Them Eat Cake, Wedding Cake" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "God Shed his Grace on Thee" - Jack Hitt
**Act 3: "Have Paint, Will Travel" - Alex Kotlowitz and Amy Dorn
**Act 4: "Handing People Their Dreams" - Ali Davis
**Act 5: "What Daddy Wants" - Curtis Sittenfeld
*TAL episode|02|217|Give It to Them
**Act 1: "Life Indoors" - Nancy Updike
**Act 2: "Here and There in the Land of Israel" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "What's a Moderate?" - Nancy Updike
*TAL episode|02|218|Act V
**Act 1: "Act Five, Scene 1" - Jack Hitt
**Act 2: "Act Five, Scene 2" - Jack Hitt
*TAL episode|02|219|High Speed Chase
**Act 1: "Cowboys and Indians, Part 1" - Susan Burton
**Act 2: "Cowboys and Indians, Part 2" - Susan Burton
*TAL episode|02|220|Testosterone
**Act 1: "Life at Zero" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "Infinite Gent"
**Act 3: "Contest-osterone"
**Act 4: "Learning to Shut Up" - Miriam Toews
*TAL episode|02|221|Fake I.D.
**Act 1: "Pole Vault" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "This Blessed House" - Jhumpa Lahiri
**Act 3: "The Lie that Binds" - David Sedaris
*TAL episode|02|222|Suckers
**Act 1: "No Receipt, No Surrender" - "Jen"
**Act 2: "The Stereo Type" - Shane DuBow
**Act 3: "Suckers in the Promised Land" - Adam Davidson
**Act 4: "Mother Sucker" - Heather O'Neill
*TAL episode|02|223|Classifieds
**Centered around classified ads appearing on the same day in the "Chicago Sun-Times" and the "Chicago Reader"
**Act 1: "Lost and Found Ads" - Todd Bachmann
**Act 2: "Help Wanted" - Joe Richman
**Act 3: "Musicians Classifieds" - Starlee Kine
**Act 4: "Personal Ads" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 5: "For Sale" - Jay Allison
*TAL episode|02|224|Middlemen
**Act 1: "Show Me the Monet" - Alex Blumberg and Davy Rothbart
**Act 2: "Stuck inside of Memphis"
**Act 3: "What it Takes to Tromp Through the Desert" - Wendy Dorr
*TAL episode|02|225|Home Movies
**Act 1: "The Big Night" - Jonathan Goldstein
**Act 2: "The Kids Stay in the Picture" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "A Half-Million Home Videos Can't be Wrong" - Ira Glass
**Act 4: "The Cinema of Upward Mobility" - Susan Burton
**Act 5: "Untitled" - David Sedaris
*TAL episode|02|226|Reruns
**Act 1: "Action! Action! Action!" - Starlee Kine talks about Trent Harris' Beaver Trilogy
**Act 2: "Marriage as Rerun" - Ira Glass
**Act 3: "Reruns at the back of the Bus" - Sarah Vowell
*TAL episode|02|227|Why We Fight
**Act 1: "Senator's Proxy" - Ira Glass
**Act 2: "When Firas Comes Marching Home Again" - Adam Davidson
**Act 3: "Realism 101" - Ira Glass
**Act 4: "Who Cares?"

External links

* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx?year=2002 This American Life's radio archive for 2002]

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 2001 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