diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py
index 6118afa1af..300884c1de 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/thisamericanlife.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 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',
@@ -14,19 +15,26 @@ class ThisAmericanLifeIE(InfoExtractor):
             'title': '487: Harper High School, Part One',
             'url' : 'http://stream.thisamericanlife.org/487/stream/487_64k.m3u8',
             'ext': 'aac',
-        }
+            'thumbnail': 'http://www.thisamericanlife.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/large_square/episodes/487_lg_2.jpg',
+            'description': 'We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year alone 29 current and recent students were shot. 29. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of all this gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances.',
+        },
+        'params': {
+            # m38u download
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
     }
 
     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'
+        # TODO check to see if there's a free mp3. if so, download that, otherwise get the m3u8 stream.
 
         return {
             'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'url': media_url,
+            'title': self._html_search_regex(r'<meta property="twitter:title" content="(.*?)"', webpage, 'title'),
+            'url': 'http://stream.thisamericanlife.org/' + video_id + '/stream/' + video_id + '_64k.m3u8',
             'ext': 'aac',
+            'thumbnail': self._html_search_regex(r'<meta property="og:image" content="(.*?)"', webpage, 'thumbnail'),
+            'description': self._html_search_regex(r'<meta name="description" content="(.*?)"', webpage, 'description'),
         }