In 2003, there were 28 This American Life episodes.
- Act 1: Polly Wants More Than a Cracker â Veronica Chater
- Act 2: On the Border Between Good and Bad â Russell Banks
- Act 1: Until the End of the War â Jack Hitt
- Act 2: Secret Trials and Secret Deportations â David Kestenbaum
- Act 3: Secret Wiretaps from a Secret Court â Blue Chevigny
- Susan Burton and Hyder Akbar won the Third Coast Festival Silver Award for Best Documentary for this episode
- Act 1: Teenage Embed â Hyder Akbar and Susan Burton
- Act 1: The Rundown â Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Heather Help Me â Jessica Riddle
- Act 3: Fools Rush In, Where Mommies Fear to Tread
- Act 4: The Science of Good and Evil â Susan Drury
- Act 1: Jarhead â Anthony Swofford
- Act 2: What's the Truth Good For, Anyway? â Ira Glass
- Act 3: Jar Jar Head â John Hodgman
- Act 1: Puppy Love â Molly FitzSimons
- Act 2: Making Money the Old Fashioned Way â Mary Beth Kirshner
- Act 3: The First Starting from Scratch â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 1: How to Write a Note â Jake Warga
- Act 2: The Battle of Words vs Fear â Michael Bernard Loggins
- Act 3: When a City Opens its Big Mouth
- Act 4: Wedding Bells and Door Bells â Elizabeth Gilbert and Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 1: Bombs over Baghdad â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Tice Ridley is a first Lieutenant in the Army
- Act 3: What's French for French Fries? â David Sedaris
- Act 4: Fighting the Previous War â Sarah Vowell
- Act 5: What Peacetime Forgets about Wartime â Lee Sandlin
- Act 6: Lessons from Ancient Wars â Mary Zimmerman and Ira Glass
- Act 1: Dave Knows â Susan Drury
- Act 2: Stock Making Sense â Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: A View from the Mop â Greg Tate
- Act 1: Unconquerable â Katie Davis
- Act 2: Or Give Me Death â Sarah Koenig
- Act 3: The Heart is a Lonely Junta â Ira Glass and Jeffrey Brown
- Act 1: The Chasm Between Comedy and Music â Jonathan Goldstein and Starlee Kine
- Act 2: Star of Bethlehem â Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Translating for the Very, Very, Very, Very Tall â Jesse Hardman
- Act 1: Losing It â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler â Sarah Vowell
- Act 3: I Found Your Letter â Davy Rothbart
- Act 1: It's Not Just the Aces That Are Wild â David Sedaris
- Act 2: Playing Clinton in the Bush Leagues â Katy Vine
- Act 3: You Talkin' to Me? â Adam Davidson
- Act 1: Don't I Know You? â Tate Donovan and Starlee Kine
- Act 2: No of Course I Know You â Scott Carrier
- Act 3: It's Commerce that Brings Us Together â Susan Drury
- Act 4: The Sound of One Hand Waving â Patty Martin
- Act 5: The Sound of No Hands Clapping â Viki Merrick, Eric Kipp, and Jay Allison
- Act 6: Reaching Out with Radio â "Joey" and "Jake" with Blunt Youth Radio Project
- Act 7: Up Where the Air is Clear â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 8: The Greatest Dog Name in the World â Valion Loetz, Paris Loetz and Katie Adone
- Act 9: Of Dogs and Men â Elaine Boehm and Jim Sultzer
- Act 10: Untitled â Neo-Futurists
- Act 11: Etiquette Lesson â David Sedaris
- Act 12: To Tell the Truth â Brent Runyon
- Act 13: More Lies â Catharyn and Ira Glass
- Act 14: Call in Colonel Mustard or That's What Happens when you Don't Use a Condoment Kids â Ira Glass
- Act 15: Mr. Prediction â David Rakoff
- Act 16: That One Guy at the Office â ?Drewdanna Gustafson?
- Act 17: You Can't Choose Your Gift â ?Richard Carry? and Jim Sultzer
- Act 18: Party Talk â Chuck Klosterman
- Act 19: The Hard Life at the Top â David Lipsky
- Act 20: The Greatest Moment I Saw On Stage â Ira Glass
- Act 1: Confession â Carl Marziali
- Act 2: Blood Agent â Ira Glass
- Act 3: And I Love Her â Etgar Keret
- Act 4: Yet another ineffective road map for world leadership â Blue Chevigny
- Act 1: The Hiker and the Cowman Should be Friends â Scott Carrier
- Act 2: Scrapbook, the Verb
- Act 3: Slingshot â John Hodgman
- Act 1: Bolt of Lightning, Pro and Con â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Files in Cakes, Ha! â Angelo
- Act 3: So Crazy It Just Might Work â Elizabeth Gilbert
- Act 4: A Girl's Guide to Mending the Unmendable â Susan Burton
- Act 1: Return to the Scene of the Crime â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: Does Niceness Pay? â Ira Glass
- Act 3: And What's Going on With You? â Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan
- Act 4: Keeping It in the Family â Bernard Cooper
- Act 1: Who Put the "Pistol" in "Epistolary"? â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Pen Pal Husband â Janice Powell
- Act 1: Inside the Romance Industry â Robin Epstein
- Act 2: View from the Other Half â Griffin Hansbury
- Act 3: A Love Story â Sarah Vowell
- Prologue â David Rakoff
- Act 1: If It Drives, Go Live â Starlee Kine follows up on a 2001 low speed car chase in Los Angeles
- Act 2: Don't Just Stand There â Sheila Peabody
- Act 3: Hello, Baby â David Rakoff
- Act 4: On the Eighth Day, God Created Tartar Sauce â Curtis Sittenfeld on a Mobile Bay jubilee
- Act 1: Oh, Mr. San Man â Ira Glass
- Act 2: Except for the Smell, I Think I Have a Crush on You â Luis Urrea
- Act 3: "I'm a Legitimate Businessman ... Waste Management."
- Act 1: Rock, Paper, Computer â Jack Hitt
- Act 2: Detroit Is In the House â Alex Blumberg
- Act 3: Zero Divided By Zero Is Still Zero â Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Act 1: Whatever Happened to Baby Cain? â Jonathan Goldstein
- Act 2: This Land is Your Land, This Land Is My Land â Nancy Updike
- Act 3: Neighbor's Keeper â Robert Kurson
- Act 1: Duki
- Act 2: Winged Warrior
- Act 3: Chicken Diva â Jack Hitt
- Act 4: Trying to Respect the Chicken â Ira Glass
- Act 1: No Island Is An Island â Jack Hitt
- Act 2: On Hold, No One Can Hear You Scream â Julie Snyder
- Act 1: Part One â Hyder Akbar
- Act 2: Part Two â Hyder Akbar
- Act 1: Make a Joyous Noise Unto Your Mom â Ian Brown
- Act 2: A Christmas Memory
- Act 3: Secret Santa â Caitlin Shetterly
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