In 2001, there were 28 This American Life episodes.
- Act 1: What Big Teeth You Have â Hillary Frank
- Act 2: In the Event of an Emergency, Put Your Sister in an Upright Position â Susan Burton
- Act 3: Yes There Is A Baby â Ira Glass
- For their segment Yes There Is A Baby Jonathan Goldstein, Alex Blumberg and Ira Glass won the 2002 Third Coast International Audio Festival Gold Award for Best Documentary
- Act 1: The Family That Flees Together, Trees Together â Alex Blumberg
- Act 2: What's French for 'Strike Three'? â Adam Gopnik
- Act 3: It's Julie Andrews' World, Sylvia Just Lives In It â Sylvia Lemus and Ira Glass
- Act 1: Invisible Man vs. Hawkman â John Hodgman
- Act 2: Wonder Woman â Kelly McEvers
- Act 3: The Green Team of Boy Millionaires, Beppo The Amazing Supermonkey from Planet Krypton, and The Man from Sram â Ira Glass and Jonathan Morris
- Act 4: The Wonder Twins â Ira Glass and Jason Bleibtreu
- Act 1: Untouchables
- Act 2: The Inevitable
- Act 3: War By Other Means
- Act 4: They Say Our Love is Here to Stay
- Act 1: Once More, With Feeling â Jonathan Katz
- Act 2: Punk in a Grey Flannel Suit â David Philp
- Act 3: Ich... Bin... Ein .. Mophead â Alex Blumberg
- Act 4: Every Day I Forget Something Else â Nicholson Baker
- Act 1: The Test â Scott Carrier
- Act 2: The Friendly Man â Scott Carrier
- Act 3: Who Am I? What Am I Doing Here? â Scott Carrier
- Act 4: The Day Mom and Dad Fell in Love â Scott Carrier
- Act 1: What We Cringe About When We Cringe About Love â Nancy Updike
- Act 2: The Growing Aesthetic of Cringe â Adam Sternberg
- Act 3: M*A*S*H Notes â Ira Glass
- Act 4: Cringe and Purge â Bruce Jay Friedman
- Act 1: Better Left to the Imagination â Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Tell it to the Void â Miriam Toews
- Act 3: I'm an Orphan; Don't Tell My Mom â Starlee Kine
- Act 4: Runaway Mom â Dan Savage
- Act 1: Mr. Rothbart's Neighborhood â Davy Rothbart
- Music interlude: Bing Crosby, Dear Hearts and Gentle People
- Act 2: The Girl Next Door â Cheryl Wagner
- Act 3: The Ratman Cometh â Katie Davis
- Music interlude: Big Mama Thornton, I Smell a Rat
- Music interlude: Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, New Kind of Neighborhood
- Act 1: Bowing Before the Famous â Ann Hepperman
- Act 2: Thou Shalt Worship No Other Trousers Before Me â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Don't Have a Golden Cow â Iggy Scam
- For her segment Tornado Prom Susan Burton won the 2001 Third Coast International Audio Festival Best New Artist award
- Act 1: Tornado Prom â Susan Burton
- Act 2: Save the Last Dance for Me... Again â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Only Two Things Are Certain in Life: Death and Tuxes
- Act 4: Only One Thing Missing â Wendy Dorr â Prom in Racine, Wisconsin
- Act 1: Driving the Divorcemobile
- Act 2: And If That Diamond Ring Don't Shine â Ian Brown
- Act 3: Legend of a Bankrobber's Son â Nick Flynn
- Act 1: Baby Scientists with Faulty Data
- Act 2: The Game Ain't Over til the Fatso Man Sings â Howie Chackowicz
- Act 3: Werewolves in Their Youth â Michael Chabon
- Act 4: One Brain Shrinks, Another Brain Grows â Julie Hill
- Act 1: Part One â Alix Spiegel
- Act 2: Part Two â Alix Spiegel
- Act 1: Girls Girls Girls â Cris Beam
- Act 2: Agent to the Stars â John Hodgman
- Act 3: Airel Sharon, Shimon Peres, David Ben Gurion, and Me! â Ira Glass and Adam Davidson
- Act 1: Just Three Thousand More Miles to the Beach â Scott Carrier
- Act 2: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humility â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 3: You Can Have Your Cave and Eat It Too â Sarah Vowell
- Act 1: Crispy with the Rock â Joel Lovell
- Act 2: Know When to Walk Away, Know When to Run â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Martha My Dear â David Rakoff
- Act 1: The Disappearance â Genevieve Jurgensen
- Act 2: Look for the Union Label â Adrian LeBlanc
- Act 3: Ashes â David Sedaris
- Act 1: In the After of Before and After â Lynn Simpson
- Act 2: Watching from the River's Edge â David Rakoff
- Act 3: Notes from the Underground â Haruki Murakami
- Act 4: Far From Home â David Sedaris
- Act 5: U.S.A., Me-S.A. â Ira Glass and Shirley Jahad
- Act 1: The Situation in the Field â Ira Glass and Tom Gjelten
- Act 2: Letters to Home â Andrew Carroll and Estelle Lynch
- Act 3: What Peacetime Forgets About Wartime â Lee Sandlin
- Act 4: Are You Ready? â Scott Carrier
- Act 1: 1001 Arabian Nightly Newscasts â Julie Snyder
- Act 2: Bombs over Baghdad â Issam Shukri
- Act 3: Toto, I don't Think We're in Vietnam Anymore â Alex Blumberg
- Act 1: Mr. Boder Vanishes â Carl Marziali
- Act 2: Of Course I Remember Your Name â Heather O'Neill
- Act 3: A Bad Day for Plates â Laura Tangusso
- Act 4: You Call That Love? â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 1: To Make a Friend, Be a Friend â David Sedaris
- Act 2: Stay in Touch â Tami Sagher
- Act 3: People Like You If You Put a Lot of Time Into Your Appearance â Luke Burbank
- Act 4: Just Be Yourself â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 1: Part One â Adam Beckman
- Act 2: Part Two â Adam Beckman
- Act 1: Don't Believe Anything You Hear on the Radio â Nancy Updike
- Act 2: Live on Stage by the Sword, Die on Stage by the Sword â Margy Rochlin
- Act 1: My Friend the Extremist â Jon Ronson
- Act 2: Don't They Know It's Christmas After All â David Sedaris
- Act 3: Newfies â Chris Brookes
- Act 1: Adventures in Turning the Other Cheek â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Does Size Matter If You're Talking About a Cross? â Josh Noel and Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: The Epiphany Biz â Bill Lychak
- Act 4: First Be Reconciled to Thy Brother, and Then Come and Offer Thy Gift â Susie Putz-Drury
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