The six-episode, half-hour television series, airing each Sunday, follows average people as they give first-person accounts of extraordinary situations in which their lives were forever changed. The result is true stories that are always revealing, surprising, dramatic and emotional, and sometimes even funny.
In the sophomore season of THIS AMERICAN LIFE®, stories range from a young Iraqi's surprising tour across America to answer our questions and challenge perceptions about the war, to a disabled Florida man’s fight for independence, despite insurmountable odds, to two Wisconsin convicts who attempt a Macgyver-esque prison escape using dental floss, to 13-year-old boys training to be stand-up comedians in New York.
