Other universes that are just like our own, but with one small difference.
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Keith Negley
Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks with David Kestenbaum about a phone app that can create alternate universes with the press of a button. (8 minutes)
Dreams From My Father
Writer Etgar Keret tells a story about his father, who was constantly imagining parallel universes. In a way, they saved him. (12 minutes)
Sorry/Not Sorry
David Kestenbaum finds out about a speech that, in another world, President Clinton gave on August 17, 1998. (13 minutes)
Sklar-Crossed Brothers
Being an identical twin is kind of like having a parallel world right on top of ours, one in which there is another version of you running around. Dana Chivvis has the story of the Sklar twins, and a 48-year-old mystery. (19 minutes)
If I Lived Here, I’d Be Home Now
Diane Wu has the story of a woman who goes to South Korea to meet her birth mother, a trip that lets her visit one of the other worlds in which she almost lived. (9 minutes)
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