List of 2003 This American Life episodes

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