About this episode

Rob and Britta discuss Alix Spiegel's story 'Pray' from This American Life and her experiences while reporting on a megachurch.

Rob and Britta discuss the classic Alix Spiegel story "Pray" from This American Life, including Spiegel's origin story as a producer and what happened to her when members of the megachurch she was reporting on urged her to become a Christian. This is the second of three episodes Rob and Britta recorded in 2019 and never released until now. The first of those was our episode about TAL's "Notes on Camp." Show Notes: Pray - This American Life Tape: A radio show about people who make radio, hosted and edited by Mooj Zadie Alix Spiegel's manifesto at Transom.org Music: Defect 2: Curiosidade - Tom Ze (John McEntire Remix) Coffaro's Theme - Bill Frisell Other Music - Blue Dot Sessions

People in this episode

Hosts: Rob, Britta

Topics covered

• Alix Spiegel
• This American Life
• megachurch
• Christianity
• storytelling
• radio production

Keywords

• Alix Spiegel
• Pray
• This American Life
• megachurch
• Christianity
• storytelling
• radio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: This American Life, Transom.org, Blue Dot Sessions

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