On March 22nd, the public radio program This American Life will make its debut as a television show on Showtime. Creator Ira Glass had plenty of offers to do the radio program on t.v. before, but couldn’t figure out how to make it work.

Every year, thousands of Americans move to Japan to find work teaching English, no experience necessary. Producer Robin Hilton spent three years there and has an audio diary on this comical subculture of expatriates.

When Jim and Christeen Rightnar moved to Lebanon, Kansas, they dreamed of turning the tiny town into a storybook village. But their plans didn’t unfold quite as they expected.