This American Life retracts report criticising Apple factory An episode of This American Life, broadcast in January and adapted from a one-man theatrical show by Mike Daisey, condemned working conditions at Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that supplies products for Apple, Sony and Amazon, among others. The programme aired on January 6, 2012, and became the most popular podcast in the history of the series. In a press release, Public Radio International said: "Some of the falsehoods found in Daisey's monologue are small ones: the number of factories Daisey visited in China, for instance, and the number of workers he spoke with. Others are large. In his monologue he claims to have met a group of workers who were poisoned on an iPhone assembly line by a chemical called n-hexane. Apple's audits of its suppliers show that an incident like this occurred in a factory in China, but the factory wasn't located in Shenzhen, where Daisey visited. Mr Glass said: "We're horrified to have let something like this onto public radio." Mr Daisey's one man show, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, is based on a visit he made to China in 2010. He said: "What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism. For this reason, I regret that I allowed This American Life to air an excerpt from my monologue. The radio show was the first of a series of reports into conditions at plants in China. The New York Times ran a series of reports into conditions at Foxconn's factories and last month, US television network ABC reported from inside the Foxconn's plant. In response to the controversy, Apple said the Fair Labor Association would independently audit Foxconn City, one of the manufacturer's biggest facilities, located in Shenzhen, Guandong Province.