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We're very excited to announce that Season Two is coming November 14th! Here’s a sneak peek…

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Oct 17, 2018

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From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, This is Love investigates life’s most persistent mystery. Stories of sacrifice, obsession, and the ways in which we bet everything on each other.

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We're Back: We're very excited to announce that Season Two is coming November 14th! Here’s a sneak peek… by This is Love
1 min listen
Episode 10: Blue: The story of a color marked by effort and desire. by This is Love
25 min listen
This Is Love: From the makers of the award-winning podcast Criminal, an investigation into life’s most persistent mystery: love. by This is Love
6 min listen
Episode 12: How to Be Alone: More than 40 years ago, a man moved to an abandoned mining town to be alone. He says that there are days in the winter "when it's so quiet that the noisiest thing is the snow hitting your jacket." by This is Love
29 min listen
Episode 2: Something Large and Wild: An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild. by This is Love
27 min listen
Episode 18: The Memory Artist: One day Franco Magnani picked up a paintbrush. by This is Love
32 min listen
Episode 11: Nothing Compares to You: In 1983, Susan Rogers moved thousands of miles from home to work with her favorite artist in the world: Prince. "He was unlike any human I'd ever known,” she says. A story about making remarkable things, together. by This is Love
30 min listen
Episode 23: Into the Ice: The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the inside. She assembled a team of the most accomplished divers in the world, and they traveled for 12 days through the rough waters of the Southern Ocean. Attempting to dive into cracks in the iceberg, her life was in very real danger three times. And the third time, she would be saved by an animal so small, so transparent, that you can see its heart beating right through its skin. by This is Love
37 min listen
Episode 20: Roselle and Michael: Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He says the first indication that something was wrong was the sound of a muffled explosion. Then the building began to tilt, and he felt the floor drop like an elevator. But Michael Hingson didn’t panic because his guide dog, Roselle, was calm. by This is Love
35 min listen
Episode 14: The Town That Stayed Quiet: We visit a city in Northern Italy where everyone decided to stay quiet to save something beautiful. by This is Love
26 min listen
Episode 9: One in a Million: A story about moving at your own pace. by This is Love
23 min listen
Episode 15: Silvia and the Cats: We visit an ancient place where cats have taken over. by This is Love
26 min listen
Episode 43: The Adventures of Dillon Helbig: Dillon Helbig is 8 years old. He's been writing books since he was 5. One day, he decided he wanted to see his book on the shelf in a library. by This is Love
25 min listen
Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner: On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the station, he noticed something on the ground. It looked like a baby doll wrapped in a shirt. And then he saw the doll's legs move. by This is Love
40 min listen
Episode 22: Prairie Warbler: When Drew Lanham was a child, he used to lie down in a field and play dead, just so he could get a glimpse of vultures flying over him. He made binoculars out of toilet paper rolls, and wings out of cardboard. He loved birds. But when he went to college, he says "I was trying to live up to the expectations of others who said, ‘you're a black kid who's good at math and science.’” So he studied engineering, and was miserable. And then, one day he heard the call of a Prairie Warbler. by This is Love
41 min listen
Episode 19: The Wolves: We go searching for wolves in Yellowstone, and learn about the dramatic and surprisingly relatable relationship between a powerful young wolf and the small, elderly wolf who had raised him. by This is Love
41 min listen
Episode 25: City Birds: Meet a woman who decided to devote her life to the wild birds of New York City, and a Los Angeles man who formed a once-in-a-lifetime friendship. by This is Love
29 min listen
Episode 29: The Dancer: When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day, when his father decided to put Carlos in a ballet class. by This is Love
27 min listen
Episode 26: The Kinseys: Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters in Tallahassee. Years later, when their son Khalil was born, Bernard and Shirley made a plan — they wanted him to understand where he came from, and where his ancestors came from. So they decided to become detectives, uncovering the history of the Black experience in America. by This is Love
35 min listen
Episode 28: The Clearwater Monster: Early one morning in 1948, a phone call woke up the police chief in the small town of Clearwater, Florida. The caller said he’d seen something strange at the beach. Residents woke up that morning to find an odd set of footprints in the sand, and a rumor began circulating that Clearwater Beach had a sea monster. by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 31: Something Large and Wild: Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost. by This is Love
27 min listen
Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees: One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door down the hall that had a red tarp over it, and the nurses were avoiding the room. So she decided to sneak in. by This is Love
31 min listen
Episode 34: Lost and Found: On today's episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by listening closely. Featuring a 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, and Patti Smith before she recorded her first album. by This is Love
49 min listen
Episode 49: Beneath the City: Evan Woodard explores the city of Baltimore from underneath. He searches for things buried underground—things that some people might consider trash. We decided to go to Baltimore and join him on a dig. by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 38: Tami & Ed, Sharpie: Tami is a sharpie, and Ed is her cap. After all these years, marriage has left an indelible mark. Listeners of this show know that from the very beginning, we’ve wanted to highlight unconventional stories of love. Oftentimes, not romantic love. What we have for you today is one of the strangest and funniest conversations we’ve heard in a long time. by This is Love
31 min listen
Episode 40: Grandfather of the Forest: “On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree.” A story about people coming together, willing to try something. by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 39: Can I Speak to David?: "I began to think: ‘Oh, my gosh. Everyone was against me dropping out of college, marrying a complete stranger, and moving to New York. Perhaps they may have been on to something.’” by This is Love
32 min listen
Episode 48: The Freelons: Nnenna and Phil met on a friend’s front porch in Carrboro, North Carolina in 1978. “It felt like I was meeting someone that I had known, but forgot that I knew,” she says. “It just was magic.” by This is Love
46 min listen
Episode 46: The Visitor: Many years ago, Cathy Raven decided to build herself a small house on a large piece of land in rural Montana. She’s said, “I saw myself alone in the furthest future that I could imagine.” Then a red fox began to arrive, at the same time every day. by This is Love
25 min listen
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain: When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.” by This is Love
38 min listen

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Episode 58: Always Tomorrow: A woman becomes a best-selling novelist by writing more than 100 books about her first romance. by This is Love
31 min listen
Episode 57: Nelson’s Camera: In 1983, Nelson Sullivan picked up a video camera and started filming everything – going to nightclubs in New York City, shopping at the grocery store, even waiting for a flight at the airport. "He became the narrator of his own life story.” by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 56: You've Got Mail: Delia Ephron has worked on some of the most famous romantic comedies of all time – like Sleepless in Seattle, and You’ve Got Mail – alongside her sister, Nora Ephron. In You’ve Got Mail, two people fall in love over email. Decades after writing that screenplay, Delia Ephron found herself in the middle of a very similar story. “I really did think I’d fallen into my own romantic comedy.” by This is Love
47 min listen
Episode 55: The Rescue: When George Linnane was badly injured deep inside a cave, he knew the only people who could get him out were his fellow cavers: by This is Love
34 min listen
Episode 54: Grace and Julia: Grace Young remembers her parents were obsessed with food growing up — they went shopping every day for groceries and every night they cooked traditional Cantonese dishes for dinner. She started to learn to cook when she was young, but not from her parents. She learned from Julia Child. “She was a little jolly. She was always in a good mood. I was fascinated by what she was cooking. None of it was familiar to me. I didn’t know what a soufflé was or brioche or croissants, but she was just so appealing to me.” Today, Grace is known as the Stir Fry Guru, and she’s written three cookbooks about Chinese cooking. by This is Love
40 min listen
Episode 53: Desperate In Rockland: Advice columnist Meredith Goldstein says her favorite letters to answer are about breakups. "It doesn't matter who you are – if you have been dumped, it is awful." by This is Love
40 min listen
Episode 52: In the Mouth of the Whale: Michael Packard makes a living diving for lobsters off the coast of Cape Cod. “You know, this is what I love. It's a different world down there." Last summer, he had an astonishing encounter with a whale. by This is Love
28 min listen
Episode 51: The Pizza Maker: When Margaret Dugan married Domenico DeMarco in 1965, she had no idea he would later become known as “The Godfather of Pizza.” Today, a look at the man and the marriage behind the famous Di Fara Pizza. by This is Love
36 min listen
Episode 50: A Crush: As a teenager, Kendra James had a crush on the actor Orlando Bloom. She decorated her room with pictures of him, she wrote stories imagining a romance with him, and she joined a message board dedicated entirely to him. One day, someone on the message board had an idea to make contact with Orlando Bloom himself. by This is Love
34 min listen
Episode 49: Beneath the City: Evan Woodard explores the city of Baltimore from underneath. He searches for things buried underground—things that some people might consider trash. We decided to go to Baltimore and join him on a dig. by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 48: The Freelons: Nnenna and Phil met on a friend’s front porch in Carrboro, North Carolina in 1978. “It felt like I was meeting someone that I had known, but forgot that I knew,” she says. “It just was magic.” by This is Love
46 min listen
Episode 47: Frank Goes to the Spelling Bee: A few months ago, Frank Dumas won his 4th grade class spelling bee. And then he just kept winning. by This is Love
26 min listen
Episode 46: The Visitor: Many years ago, Cathy Raven decided to build herself a small house on a large piece of land in rural Montana. She’s said, “I saw myself alone in the furthest future that I could imagine.” Then a red fox began to arrive, at the same time every day. by This is Love
25 min listen
Episode 45: Seeing and Being Seen: When artist Wilfrid Wood was looking for new people to draw, he got an idea - and put a call out for models on Grindr. When Theo Adamson saw Wilfrid's profile, he says “it just caught me in the right moment as being up for trying something new.” by This is Love
29 min listen
Episode 44: Cain's Jawbone: There’s a strange book from 1934 called Cain’s Jawbone that's "not for the faint-hearted.” It’s part puzzle, part murder mystery. And it’s only been solved three times. by This is Love
32 min listen
Episode 43: The Adventures of Dillon Helbig: Dillon Helbig is 8 years old. He's been writing books since he was 5. One day, he decided he wanted to see his book on the shelf in a library. by This is Love
25 min listen
Episode 42: The Brain in Love: Dessa started planning an experiment—part science project, part art project—to try to fall out of love. by This is Love
32 min listen
Episode 40: Grandfather of the Forest: “On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree.” A story about people coming together, willing to try something. by This is Love
33 min listen
Episode 39: Can I Speak to David?: "I began to think: ‘Oh, my gosh. Everyone was against me dropping out of college, marrying a complete stranger, and moving to New York. Perhaps they may have been on to something.’” by This is Love
32 min listen
Episode 38: Tami & Ed, Sharpie: Tami is a sharpie, and Ed is her cap. After all these years, marriage has left an indelible mark. Listeners of this show know that from the very beginning, we’ve wanted to highlight unconventional stories of love. Oftentimes, not romantic love. What we have for you today is one of the strangest and funniest conversations we’ve heard in a long time. by This is Love
31 min listen
Episode 36: The Magpie of Heart Mountain: When Shigeru Yabu was a little boy he made a new friend in an unexpected place. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.” by This is Love
38 min listen
Episode 34: Lost and Found: On today's episode: Home recordings, people recording their friends, neighbors, and strangers — for a look at how we live, and who we are, by listening closely. Featuring a 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, and Patti Smith before she recorded her first album. by This is Love
49 min listen
Episode 33: On the Way to Dinner: On August 28th, 2000, Danny Stewart got on the subway to meet his boyfriend Pete Mercurio for dinner in New York City. As he was exiting the station, he noticed something on the ground. It looked like a baby doll wrapped in a shirt. And then he saw the doll's legs move. by This is Love
40 min listen
Episode 32: Among the Oak Trees: One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door down the hall that had a red tarp over it, and the nurses were avoiding the room. So she decided to sneak in. by This is Love
31 min listen
Episode 31: Something Large and Wild: Our favorite story, for anyone who might be feeling a little lost. by This is Love
27 min listen
Episode 29: The Dancer: When Carlos Acosta was a kid, he wanted to be the next Michael Jackson. He spent all his time break-dancing in the streets of Havana. Until one day, when his father decided to put Carlos in a ballet class. by This is Love
27 min listen

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