• Publication: This American Life, August 18, 2017Publication Record # 978577 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editor: Editors of This American Life
• Date: 2017-08-18
• Publisher: Chicago Public Media
• Price:
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• Format:
  digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.
• Type: MAGAZINE
• Cover: This American Life, August 18, 2017 by Paul Davey
• Webpages: thisamericanlife.org-1, thisamericanlife.org-2
• Notes: Data from publisher's website.

  • Episode 623, titled "We Are in the Future"
  • Episode theme: Afrofuturism
  • Prologue: Narrated by Ira Glass & Neil Drumming
  • Act One: Metropolis Now: Narrated by Neil Drumming
  • Act Two: Past Imperfect: Narrated by Azie Dungey
  • Act Three: The Black Sea: Narrated by clppng.
  • Act Four: Childhood's End: Narrated by Neil Drumming

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Prologue (We Are in the Future) • interview of Ariell Johnson and William Jones (I) • interview by Neil Drumming and Ira Glass
• Metropolis Now • essay by Neil Drumming
• Metropolis Now • interview of Ingrid LaFleur • interview by Neil Drumming
• Past Imperfect • essay by Azie Dungey
•   Review: Kindred by Octavia E. Butler • review by Neil Drumming
• The Deep • poem by Daveed Diggs and William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes [as by clipping.]
• Childhood's End • essay by Neil Drumming