The Moth Radio Hour
Series produced by The Moth
The Moth Radio Hour is a weekly series featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props, or accompaniment. Each Moth Radio Hour mixes humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant tales that captivate, surprise, and delight audiences with their honesty, bravery and humor.
Brought to you by PRX and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Learn more about The Moth, the series and live events at prx.org/themoth. Please confirm carriage of The Moth Radio Hour by contacting Deb Blakeley at blakeley.deb@gmail.com.
Additional Files
- Generic Promo - Jay Allison, Radio Hour Producer (MothJayGenericPromo.mp2)
- Generic Promo - Jenifer Hixson, Moth Senior Producer (MothJenGenericPromo.mp2)
- Moth Theme Music (02_Uncanny_Valley.mp2)
21 Pieces
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Professional gambler Annie Duke details a pivotal poker game at the televised Tournament of Champions; road rage lands a new mom in jail; a young ...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 53:59
A man in the middle of a midlife crisis takes a terrifying parachute jump; an Iraq war veteran shares details of his battle back home; a woman sits...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 53:57
The victim of a random stabbing struggles to reestablish his life while suffering from post traumatic stress disorder; author Nathan Englander desc...
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 53:56
The top editor of French "Vogue" rents a spooky flat in Paris; a man takes his ailing wife on a motorcycle ride; rapper Darryl "DMC" McDaniels conf...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 53:58
A special live edition of The Moth in NYC’s Central Park. Comic Jessi Klein lands her childhood dream job writing for Saturday Night Live; a priso...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 53:54
A woman sets off in search of transformation and ends up in a harem in Bandar Seri Begawan; a teacher discovers her playground has turned into a 3r...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 53:58
A counselor at a suicide hotline intervenes with a caller; a couple takes an online wedding contest very seriously; a woman tries to resist compari...
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 53:58
Geneticist Paul Nurse, a Nobel Laureate, learns the truth about his origins; a nine-alarm blaze in Boston's Chinatown teaches a daughter about her ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 53:57
In this hour, a man is instructed not to fall in love with his monkey, but fails; renowned performer Sarah Jones (Bridge and Tunnel) finds herself ...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 53:58
In this hour, stories from author Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers, Blink, The Tipping Point) about a wedding prank gone horribly wrong; an African-Ameri...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 53:57
Award-winning author and documentary filmmaker Sebastian Junger spends many years covering war and thinks that he’s come close to knowing what sol...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 53:57
In this hour, hear how celebrated author and writer Adam Gopnik (Paris to the Moon, The New Yorker) embarrasses his son and offends other loved one...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 53:59
An author who treasures the art of letter-writing is spellbound by an inmate who becomes a pen pal; a man comes to terms with a personal tragedy ca...
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 54:00
In this hour, a severely stuttering child years later becomes the world's premier jaguar expert. Plus, a Texas tale of moon pies and bedazzlers; t...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 53:57
A batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher, an Irish-Catholic family obsessed with the Kennedys d...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 53:59
A special live edition of The Moth in Martha’s Vineyard, hosted by Jenny Allen with additional hosting by Jay Allison. The first African American G...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 53:58
Slow service at a deli counter leads to an angry and regrettable outburst; a husband describes his wife’s lifelong battle with epilepsy; a teenage...
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 53:56
When a beloved patient’s cancer returns, a psychologist confesses that she is at a loss for words; an inmate at a women’s prison describes the surp...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 53:57
A woman makes an alarming discovery about what lies beneath the large parcel of land she just purchased, an eight-year-old immigrant learns English...
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 53:57
A young doctor is whisked halfway across the globe to care for an ailing international religious icon, a daughter discovers her father’s painstakin...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 53:56
