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 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.
Additional Files
- Generic Promo - Jenifer Hixson, Moth Senior Producer (MothJenGenericPromo.mp2)
- Moth Theme Music (02_Uncanny_Valley.mp2)
- Generic Promo - Jay Allison (MOTH_generic_promo_2016.mp2)
- The Moth Radio Hour Clock (Moth_clock.pdf)
- Moth_logo_NEW (Moth_logo.jpg)
265 Pieces
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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: Sep 05, 2018
- Length: 53:55
Comic Tig Notaro details her complicated relationship with her step-father; a New York City cop on a bust discovers the value of a mug shot; and a ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2018
- Length: 53:57
A special live event from Cooper Union. Andrew Solomon describes his circuitous route to becoming a dad, a cellist makes a disturbing discovery abo...
- Added: Sep 25, 2018
- Length: 53:58
A comic attends her sister’s wedding at Disneyland, two guys try to break the Red Sox' curse, the child of two hoarders digs herself out, and a you...
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 54:00
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: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 53:59
A young mother is obsessed with creating an absolutely perfect life for her children, Moth founder George Dawes Green details a bizarre interruptio...
- Added: Oct 19, 2018
- Length: 53:58
A high school student in Nebraska tries to bluff his way through a French assignment, a Voodoo Priestess tries to help the New Orleans Saints get t...
- Added: Nov 07, 2018
- Length: 53:58
Writer and bon vivant, Simon Doonan, sets out on a mission to fulfill a childhood desire; a secret finally catches up with a suburban housewife and...
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 53:57
A high schooler encounters racism when he tries to go to prom, a young woman is afraid to tell her grandmother that she is gay, an English woman ha...
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 53:55
A family reunites around a hospital bed, a grandmother shares wisdom (and a beer) with her grandson, a third-grade teacher underestimates the power...
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 53:58
True romance is put in jeopardy by a reality TV show, a speechwriter has an explosive show down with Bill Clinton, a woman flies cross country to h...
- Added: Jan 18, 2019
- Length: 53:59
A special live edition of The Moth on Martha’s Vineyard, hosted by Adam Gopnik with additional hosting by Jay Allison. A mother decides to monitor ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 53:59
A jack-of-all-trades enters a cartoon contest, a teacher’s pet is invited to do a special project, a girl from Queens learns to think big, and a wo...
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 53:57
A 16-year old girl discovers she is pregnant, a waiter fields a strange request at a Macaroni Grill, a six-year old breaks the teacher’s rules, and...
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 53:59
A little boy and his grandma attend a pro-wrestling match in 1955; a prisoner is contacted by a girl who says she’s his daughter; a high school pri...
- Added: Mar 13, 2019
- Length: 53:59
Molly Ringwald finds herself in the principal's office with her daughter, a young man navigates life with his single mom, a boy who loves Barbies i...
- Added: Mar 29, 2019
- Length: 53:57
A life-changing email arrives from an almost-stranger; a single man ventures into a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the 1970’s; an adoptee fears re...
- Added: Apr 18, 2019
- Length: 53:57
A flight attendant describes how she adjusts her attitude while up in the air; a Vietnamese family is forced to flee from their home to take refuge...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KCRW, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: May 06, 2019
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 37
An author writes a spoof “kids” book about going to sleep, a family’s obsessive love of a baseball team, a teenage girl discovers her friend is in ...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 53:57
Tales from The Moth StorySLAMS: Encyclopedia Brown in the courtroom, "bible bucks" at Sunday school; a corporate speech writer, an alpha big broth...
- Added: Jun 03, 2019
- Length: 53:56
