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This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 06:56
On this week's episode, our writers take us back in time to the angst of the teen years. Stories by Jill Bayles, Deana Nall, and Leslie Hitt. True ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week's stories are all about the lasting impact of grandmothers, whether we like it or not. Stories by Jennifer Miller, Mary Button, and Carla...
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 29:00
This week our writers go up against the elements of water, fire, and earth-- and live to tell the tale. Stories by David Prud'homme, Holly Patton, ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Starting off on my quest to generate a new piece based on the Moth's weekly storytelling themes. This week's theme is vacation, so here is a tale ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 11:12
Stories all about the power of LOVE as our writers wrestle with, try to trick, and are eventually overpowered by Cupid.
Stories by Jennifer Armstro...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 29:02
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life.
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 12:25
This week's stories are about the impact of special people in our lives, whether they are central to our lives, on their way to the other side, or ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 09:57
- Purchases: 1
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton tells his own true story of his childhood in racially-divided south Arkansas. These encore presentations of our Tin...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
True stories by Southerners in front of a live audience. This week's stories show us the innocence, imagination, and skewed logic of a child's mind...
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- Added: Sep 23, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
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- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Roadtrip! Pat Callaway unknowingly rides into a dry county, Joy Rockenbach heads to funeral in Greenville, Mississippi via a Lake Village must-see,...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week is about finding strength and confidence in big moments and in small. Darinda Sharp makes a famous correction, Holly Patton is shown kind...
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- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Annual Mothers Show: Amy Manning Burns is in the very first stages of becoming a mother, Ardee Eichelmann's newborn son cries in pain as the pain o...
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- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Paulette Mehta witnesses a painful goodbye, Frank Thurmond travels around the world to meet his father for the first time, and Judy Stokley copes w...
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Award-winning author Kevin Brockmeier returns to his childhood hometown only to find it has changed as much as he has. Southern-style storytelling ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Stories about children and the fine line between reality and fantasy, myth, and even truth. Told in front of a live audience each week at Starving ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Hank Godwin, Chuck Butkus, and Daniel Koehler share about childhood mistakes. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Travel to the past, the beach, and the land of jealousy with Dr. Joanna Seibert, Betty McPherson, Dottie Lou Norwood. Southern-style storytelling i...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 28:00
