The Moth Radio Hour

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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 exchange.prx.org/themoth. The Moth is available by annual carriage fee. Rates are based on your station TSR. Please contact Sean Nesbitt at sean.nesbitt@prx.org for more information or help in subscribing to the program.


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266 Pieces

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1005: Goats, Cops, and Haircuts, 8/5/2014
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Wanda Bullard, Credit: Denise Ofelia Mangen
A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; an...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
1008: Snowsuits, Swordfights, and Swindles, 10/7/2014
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Audrey Pleasant, Credit: Sarah Stacke
Jonathan Ames ("Bored to Death") details an epic fencing match, a wallflower teaches herself the slide and ends up in the spotlight, an addict risk...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 53:59
1205: Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah, 4/5/2016
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Elif Shafak, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground; three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco; and a novelist decides th...

Bought by Vermont Public, Michigan Radio, PRX Remix, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 48
1616: Fathers and Children: Adventures, Joys, and Predicaments, 6/14/2016
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Nestor Gomez, Credit: Jerry Shulman
A daughter struggles with her father’s depression, a drill sergeant gets queasy, the grandson of President Harry S Truman visits Japan, a single da...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
1405: Cops, Dumpster Diving, and Mental Illness, 6/28/2016
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Amy Brill, Credit: Jason Falchook
A tough New York City cop gets a small, fluffy dog; a college student tries dumpster diving; a Brooklyn mom has to deviate from her birth plan; and...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
1712: The Big Oops: Blunders Large and Small, 5/23/2017
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Hasan Minhaj, Credit: Photo by Christian Leonard
In this hour, four stories about the mistakes we make. A young girl enters a school talent show; a boy learns some family secrets when his mom retu...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
1601: Live from Dublin, 1/23/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Sinead Burke, Credit: Mark Earley
A special live edition of The Moth in Dublin at Liberty Hall. A young woman must decide if she wants the surgery that might give her a few extra in...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
1602: Sewing, Singing, Suits, and Cemeteries, 2/13/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Natalie Chanin, Credit: Jason Falchook
An adolescent boy leaves home and finds a peculiar new family, a fashion guru is forced to improvise, a Baptist finds himself at a gay bar and a yo...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1603: London Calling — with Crossfire, and a Vampire, 2/20/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Neil Gaiman, Credit: Mark Arrigo
Author Neil Gaiman explains why he’s afraid to sing in public, a tourist gets a scare in London’s Highgate Cemetery, a Nigerian man tells a bold t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
1604: Pagan Fundraisers, Blue Haired Boy, Autism and Oscar, 2/27/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Edward Hejka, Credit: Liz Mackinder
In this hour, a celebration of Moth stories and storytellers from Michigan. A woman visits a fortuneteller and is told she is cursed, a stay-at-hom...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
1610: Three Chefs and a Meal, 5/15/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Roy Choi, Credit: Braden Moran
A special hour all about FOOD. Stories from the farm and the table; complete with celebrated chefs and presidential diners. Hosted by The Moth’s Se...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1609: Moth GrandSLAMs: Life and Death, 5/29/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Suzanne Barakat, Credit: Ian Tervet
In today’s hour, GrandSLAM stories from around the country: a subway altercation, a child’s view on love and war, an awkward first-year teacher, a ...

  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1201: Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart, 6/5/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Janna Levin, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A special live edition of The Moth's collaboration with The World Science Festival. An astrophysicist discovers wild parallels in her research and ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1202: Blue Men, Psychopaths, and a Bad Date, 6/19/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Rachel Dratch, Credit: Sarah Stacke
After many years in the legendary Blue Man Group, a performer makes a profound connection with an audience member; a world-renowned neuroscientist ...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1204: Grandparents, Pole Dancing, and Lust, 7/3/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Satori Shakoor, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A family of amateur detectives crack a case; a librarian takes a dance class to spice things up; a father and son come to terms in Newark Airport; ...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
1208: Language, Coins and a Proposal, 7/10/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Richard Kind, Credit: Sarah Stacke
Novelist Walter Mosley examines the power of language to break and form bonds; an artist connects with her father when he sends her coins he finds ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WYSO, KCLU, KCRW and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 34
1206: Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food, 7/31/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: David Chang, Credit: Jason Falchook
A special live edition of The Moth at Cooper Union in NYC, "Moth Eaten: Adventures in Food". Best-selling author Adam Gopnik and his wife have an o...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCB 104.9, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 38
1313: Texas Hold' Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns, 8/14/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Flora Hogman, Credit: Sarah Stacke
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 w...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
1310: Prison, Princes, and Playgrounds, 8/21/2018
From: The Moth
Series: The Moth Radio Hour
Caption: Jillian Lauren, Credit: Sarah Stacke
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: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 53:57

Series Subscription Information

New episodes are published weekly, 1 episode a week.

Each episode is made up of 6 segments totalling between 00:53:50 and 00:54:10 in length.

Tuesday: 4:00 AM

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