This American Life - Help please!

Oh, to anyone who says "just subscribe if you love it" - will I definitely get all the back issues?

www.thisamericanlife.org/archive

I was able to access this via the above link on my laptop but not my phone. I'm currently listening to "51" Days. This podcast is a series of interviews with Israelis hostages who were released from Gaza. It is well worth listening to this, they feel very strongly that the Israeli government failed them, it is very moving.

You can ask Alexa to play it. You can also specify a specific episode.

I listened to this on my phone on Sunday/Monday on my phone with no problems.

Was looking for a different episode earlier (on my phone) and couldn't get in.

I've since got in through my laptop - but was able to cancel the thing about subscription.

Confusing. I eventually emailed the link to myself for the episode I wanted and it opened OK.
I will try your link. Thank you.

Thanks petra - I don't use/have Alexa.

I'm an avid fan of Serial on This American Life; I access it via Spotify which is free to download. Alternatively, just Google www.thisamericanlife.org

OK. Your link opens foxie!
Thank you.
I've now saved it on my homescreen.
Hooray!
🎉

Forgot to say that, to access back episodes, just scroll right down to the bottom of the page and you'll see "episodes"; click on that and you can go right back to 1999 if you want to.

Grunty
When I Google "this American life" on my phone I no longer just get the website - I get a huge advert for subscriptions that I can't close.

But thank you anyway.

Hmmm Not Spaghetti that's weird; I've just done the same on my phone but just clicked the x to close out the advert. Accessing it via Spotify is possibly easier because it has no ads.

To find back episodes I just type the next number in the search bar Grunty so currently in the 500s
I started at episode 1.

I was looking for the episode on rats to share with my son.
He couldn't believe that there was a state with no rats in America.

It wasn't America- it was Canada!

I've just accessed it via Antenna podcast app, all the back list is there too and nothing to pay.

OK. Tried again and just discovered that it works on "desktop site" on my phone.
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Anyway.
Very nice to find other TAL listeners!
Thank you all.

I will report our findings to my husband as he's had the same blue subscription advert covering his screen.

Glad you're sorted Not Spaghetti; there are some excellent podcasts on TAL. I especially like Series; 3 series to date; each one investigative journalism about topical issues done by Sarah Koenig. Series 2 was especially good!

How do you know about series?

I just listen to new ones and then catch up on the old ones in numerical order!

Had no idea about this, big thank you for introduction.

Are you American? I have never heard of it.

I'm British and have been listening to TAL for more than two years since being introduced to it by my daughter who also lives in the UK.

Yes agree that This America life is so so good. I lived in DC for many years & had to keep driving round the block in the car to finish a programme! The Feather Thief was the best & would make a great movie. I honestly didn’t think one could get it in the UK 🤷‍♀️who knew ?

Chicago was my hometown for years, way back when. Love that city! I do not know about this podcast and should look into it - thanks for the recommendation.

So many of these podcasts, series, etc are set up for free listening till they see you’re a returning listener and hooked. Then things go behind a paywall. It’s so frustrating since everyone has their hands out for money!
They claim they need funds for operational support and maintenance. 🙄

I’m not rich. If I paid for everything I’m interested in I might not have enough money for food, gas, mortgage. Many people get cut off from these entertainment, educational sources.
This Burns Me Up!

Gundy it's always been free and still is if you don't mind adverts. There have been more repeats of late it seems to me.

The other one I like (a bit "old hippy" in some ways) is a music one
Music from the hearts of space
We had a subscription for this for a few years having listened to it in the 1980s abd then rediscovered it maybe 10 years ago.

www.hos.com/home

I have it on my podcast app on my phone. I have been subscribed since it started years ago and it’s still free. The new subscription services is being advertised but it says you do not have to subscribe, you can carry on with the service as it is but with adverts. I have subscribed as it is such a good podcast and I’ve had all these free episodes for years. I
I went to the subscribe page in the show notes and paid in the usual way.