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I bought their app, which allows you to stream every episode starting from 1. EDIT: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/this-american-life/id348530331?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prx.talbot&hl=en
You can also, according to this, get every episode on the app for a total of $2.99. The podcast is consistently very high-quality, with a surprising number of original ideas given its mainstream reputation. I recommend it highly.
You can download the official app where you can listen to all the episodes, however it is not free, it costs $2.99: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prx.talbot
You can also listen on the website: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives
And finally, you can find a lot of old episodes on YouTube.
This American Life, on iTunes and on Google Play
Ya they want you to use their app to play back catalog episodes. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prx.talbot
According to their website:
>New episodes are available for ten weeks to stream or download
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>Our entire archive of 600+ episodes is available here, on our website, and on our app, which is available on iOS and Android. You can download as many episodes as you’d like on our app.
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>Archive downloads are available for $0.99 from iTunes and Amazon MP3.
There is also people out there that have created full rss feed, but they get taken down by the lawyer from time to time. (Although my European understanding of copyright would like to point out that a full rss feed is basically just another way of using their website).
If anyone from TAL is reading here: If you ever want to offer a full RSS feed for a one-time fee or small recurring fee, that would be absolutely awesome.