diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index d44339200..aba62db53 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@
 from .theonion import TheOnionIE
 from .theplatform import ThePlatformIE
 from .thesixtyone import TheSixtyOneIE
+from .thisamericanlife import ThisAmericanLifeIE
 from .thisav import ThisAVIE
 from .tinypic import TinyPicIE
 from .tlc import TlcIE, TlcDeIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6118afa1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+
+
+class ThisAmericanLifeIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?thisamericanlife\.org/radio-archives/episode/(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one',
+        'md5': '5cda28076c9f9d1fd0b0f5cff5959948',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '487',
+            'title': '487: Harper High School, Part One',
+            'url' : 'http://stream.thisamericanlife.org/487/stream/487_64k.m3u8',
+            'ext': 'aac',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        video_id = self._match_id(url)
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<h1[^>]*>(.*?)</h1>', webpage, 'title')
+        media_url = 'http://stream.thisamericanlife.org/' + video_id + '/stream/' + video_id + '_64k.m3u8'
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'url': media_url,
+            'ext': 'aac',
+        }