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How to find music used in This American Life?

Heliochrome85 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:12:47 -0800

Musicfilter: Does anyone know the name of the music used in a specific epsiode of This American Life, the radio podcast? I am trying to figure out the music from one portion of an episode of This American Life. It is episode 142, titled Barbara. It is guitar and is featured throughout the last 5 min of the episode.

Any help would be wonderful!

Cue ambient, thoughtful music

chairface — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:03:42 -0800

On the podcast for This American Life, Ira claims NPR spends $140,000-$160,000 per year just on bandwidth for the podcast. To those of you who do hosting & have some vague idea how much bandwidth TAL's podcast would take: Does this seem reasonable to you? This seems like an outrageous cost for a podcast. I did some quick math based on some cheap hosting and came out with around 13TB per month for a cost of $150,000 per year. That seems like way, way more than any podcast would need but I don't really know. Is Ira blowin' smoke to make me cough up the dollars?

I did donate so please, no lectures.

Song from Liars episode of This American Life?

0xFCAF — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:14:42 -0800

Can you identify this song used in This American Life? Starts at 19:18 and continues for the entire segment. It's mostly piano with what sounds like a string section backing it up. From episode #18, "Liars". Previously here, but their website seems to have been revamped. To make it more difficult (or easy?), the episode was made in 1996, which rules out all of the listed soundtracks and bands. It's not from the "I, Swinger" album, either.

ID some This American Life songs?

waldo — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:19:58 -0800

This American Life has at least a dozen instrumentals that they use over and over as background music. The Happy Flute Song, the Things Are Kind of Tense Song, and so on. I've really grown to like many of them, but I cannot identify any of them. Can TAL fans identify any of the standard music beds?

Where online can I find open-minded debates?

callmejay — Sun, 03 Oct 2004 21:51:45 -0800

This episode (RealAudio) of This American Life (last segment) contains a debate where both sides seem to seek common ground and refrain from using cliches or insults. Is there anywhere else on the internet that I can find debates (text/audio/whatever) where both parties are reasonable, polite, and at least partially open-minded? Extra points if the parties are well-informed.