This American Life #336: Who Can You Save?
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http://www.thislife.org/

http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1196

Stories about the pitfalls of trying to do the right thing.

Some Special Notes

This episode features a story from what is arguably the most groundbreaking new show in public radio: Radio Lab, from New York Public Radio. If you haven’t heard it, everything they’ve done is available as free downloads from their website.

Also, in Act Two, Ira interviews a retired diplomat, Kiki Munshi, about testimony she gave to Congress about Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq. You can read her testimony, and The Atlantic ran a story that goes into more detail about Kiki’s experience heading up a PRT.

And Brady Udall, who tells the story in Act Three, also wrote one of the most popular pieces of fiction we’ve ever run: “Otis Is Resurrected,” from our episode In Dog We Trust.