I love “This American Life” on NPR. I recommend most, so I feel silly highlighting just a few, but I have to start somewhere. Here are a few recent episodes I really liked:
The This American Life [...] document one day in a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple, starting at 5 a.m. and going until 5 a.m. the next morning. We hear from the waitress who has worked the graveyard shift for over two decades, the regular customers who come every day, the couples working out their problems, various assorted drunks, and, of course, cops. Featuring stories from Radio Diaries producers Joe Richman and Wendy Dorr. And a story from Nancy Updike, funded with help from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of a grant to Hearing Voices.
Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.
“This American Life” is also now a television program… I was suspicious at first, but they pulled it off! The first episide is really good! Watch it!