Ira Glass

as are the cheated-on ex-partner.

When the story appears in the newspaper on the wedding pages, it's almost as if the newspaper is siding with the cheating couple.

The ex-partner is just collateral damage on the weight of their wedding.

Well, that's the thing.

If it were any other section of the newspaper, the reporter would go to them, too, for a comment.

I think they should do that.

But because it's the wedding section, it's just like, well, it's not really their story.

Well, today on our radio program, we go where the newspaper marriage columns fear to tread.

We hear from all parties to the affair, the cheated on as well as the cheaters and their differing takes on what happened.

And no surprise, they are very different from one another's.

From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.

I'm Ira Glass.

Today on our show, infidelity.

Stay with us.

This is American Life from Ira Glass.

Today's show is a rerun.

Act one, let me kiss your stiff upper lip.

So we begin with this story from England.

And if you've read much 19th century British literature or seen any of the many, many movies based on those books, they give a sense of England as an island filled entirely with people who are full of submerged and often misplaced passions for other people.

Which brings us to this next story.