{"id":451,"date":"2011-05-01T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2011\/05\/451\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:17:00","slug":"451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2011\/05\/451.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

THIS IS YOUR LIFE: GENOCIDE EDITION<\/span>:<\/p>\n

I take This American Life<\/span> for granted and often it can seem too familiar and predictable. Some of the more famous voices on the show grate on me, and the giggles, awkwardness and teenager-y cuteness can feel contrived; sometimes I just want them to sound like grownups. Yet, not so rarely they come through with something pretty great that you wouldn\u2019t hear elsewhere. Jogging the other day I listened to this pretty amazing piece<\/a> about a few episodes of This Is Your Life<\/span> from the 1950s that brought the show\u2019s usual approach to the challenging realm of atrocity survivors. TIYL<\/span> was of course a hugely popular show with an audience of many millions; it was hosted by Ralph Edwards, who also taught Sunday School and was one of those 1950s reassuring voices of a benevolent status quo.<\/p>\n

The This American Life<\/span> piece (btw, it occurs to me that the show\u2019s name must be indebted to This is Your Life<\/span> \u2014 duh, I guess) is about a couple of jaw-dropping episodes in which Edwards brought (under false pretenses \u2014 guests were almost always surprised) on the show, to be confronted by friends and associates from their past, first, a Holocaust survivor (according to This American Life<\/span> host Allison Silverman, the first person to discuss her experiences in the camps on American television), second, a Hiroshima survivor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a>, including footage from the Holocaust survivor\u2019s episode. Via Ratty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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