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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267 Pieces

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Caption: Julie Pryor, Credit: Michael Dinneen
In this hour, moments and memories that mold the future. Life or death choices made in an instant, bygone mistakes, and letting go of grudges and g...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Photo by, Credit: Jason Falchook
In this hour, a chaplain guides a family through death and goodbyes; a man wanders New York City during the black of 2003; and a daughter tries to ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Ben Lillie, Credit: Jason Falchook
A special live edition of The Moth at The Players Club in NYC with Rachel Dratch, with additional hosting by Jay Allison. A physicist rethinks his ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Angelica Lindsey-Ali, Credit: Nick Norman
In this hour, stories about clarity and perspective. Seeing one another, feeling seen, and seeing oneself with the veil lifted. This episode is hos...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Tito Chavez-Nguyen, Credit: Henry Cromett
In this hour, stories of fear -- facing it, outgrowing it, and learning from it. From shadowy childhood demons, to the anxieties of parenthood, and...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Quratulain Fatima, Credit: Catherine Fox
In this hour, stories of testing one's own limitations and discovering new wells of strength and resolve. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Dir...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Jon Ronson, Credit: Photo by Jason Falchook
In this hour, a "spambot" takes over a man's life; rules are broken during a night at the bar; a woman's career ambition is challenged by her healt...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Salman Ahmad, Credit: Photo by Allison Evans
A special Live edition of The Moth at Wilbur Theater in Boston, Massachusetts. Hosted by Tara Clancy with additional hosting from Jay Allison. An ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Abhishek Shah, Credit: Kerry Tasker
In this hour: win, lose or draw! Stories of competition and play. Family pranks, high school Latin, college track, and the need for approval. This ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Magda Szubanski, Credit: Carla Gottgens
A special show featuring stories from Australia. A writer and her daughter move from Aboriginal land to an impoverished community, a lonely man be...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Ray Christian, Credit: Dare Kumolu-Johnson
In this hour, a man whose mother never learned to read enrolls in law school.; a recent graduate runs in to familiar faces; an uber driver encounte...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Alfonso Lacayo, Credit: Jason Falchook
In this hour stories of hindsight being 20/20: a lie goes too far, a haircut veers off course, dreams are lost to time, and one bold move with no r...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Hannah Drake, Credit: Jason Falchook
In this hour, stories of the past echoing into our present. A history lost to slavery, modern life clashing with religion, going from a party lifes...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Jane Otai, Credit: Photo by Jason Falchook
In this hour, more stories from women across the world. A group of daughters bear the weight of a family death; a young girl is told to keep her re...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Lynn Ferguson, Credit: Allan Onderchain
A special live edition of The Moth at Town Hall in NYC hosted by Adam Gopnik, with additional hosting by Jay Allison. A true fashionista auditions...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Gabby Shea, Credit: Jason Falchook
In this hour, stories from The Moth's SLAM Showcase - a night of storytelling do-overs for tales from The Moth's archives that needed slight tweaks...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Christopher Scott, Credit: Kathie Tam
In this hour, stories live on Moth stages around the Lone Star State - Everything’s Bigger in Texas. This hour is hosted by Moth Senior Director M...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Horace H.B. Sanders, Credit: Sean Carter
An unlikely romance between an outdoorsy guy and an indoorsy woman; trials and tribulations of a marriage plus eight children; and Peter Sagal dist...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Caption: Nimisha Ladva, Credit: Bob Sweeney
In this hour, tellers who tell the truth and nothing but the truth, even when it's hard. Finding the right words in front of the president, in the ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Roald Hoffmann, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A special celebration from the world of science, from the 8th grade science fair to the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Hosted by ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 53:57