This American Life: Hand IT Over -- Stories From Our First Year On The Air

This American Life: Hand It Over -- Stories From Our First Year On The Air

This American Life: Hand It Over—Stories from Our First Year on the Air is the first compilation album featuring radio broadcasts from This American Life. The two-disc set contains stories about Scott Carrier doing a documentary on schizophrenics, Ira Glass interviewing his mother, Dan Savage's "My Life As a Self Hating Republican," and Julia Sweeney's discussion of her battle with cancer. The set was an incentive during a public radio fund-drive.

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