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Sunday, January 10, 2010

Record an early broadcast of "This American Life" to listen to at your leisure

If you're like me, you don't like to be tied to your local NPR station's schedule for "This American Life" each weekend, and you don't want to wait until Sunday for the This American Life podcast to become available.

Solution! Time-shift an early broadcast of This American Life on the internet. That way, it's available for you to listen to when it's convenient for you. For me that's usually on my iPod, on my Saturday run.

The earliest reliable and listenable stream I've found is on WUIS in Springfield, IL. It airs on Friday evening at 7pm Central time. They provide a quite listenable 56k stream at this URL:
http://war.str3am.com:7780/wuis.mp3
It's great for me because I am on the west coast, so it comes on at 5pm my time and is available at 6pm. There are earlier internet broadcasts of This American Life on east coast NPR stations, but I have found their streams to be too low-quality or unreliable.

If you know of an earlier broacast that's of decent quality, let me know in the comments. Whatever stream you use, be sure to donate to the station to compensate for the bandwidth. And of course, donate to This American Life!
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2 comments:

  1. I found a way to listen to episodes about 4 or 5 days in advance from the TAL website.

    This is the link that the flash player uses for streaming at TAL's site:

    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/all/play_music/play_full.php?play=418&podcast=1

    This is the link for this week's episode, "Toxi". Now when say, Wednesday or Thursday rolls around, use this link, excepting that you change the number 418 to 419, being the new episode number, and your golden.

    It is only a stream though.
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  2. Now THAT'S a great find! Thanks!!!
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