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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264 Pieces

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Caption: Max García Conover, Credit: Tim Ouillette
In this hour, stories of childhood, growing up, and growing pains. From hearing your first Bruce Springsteen song, to experiencing a cultural divid...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Danyel Smith
A woman decides whether she's a wig person or a scarf person while undergoing chemotherapy, a magazine editor is confronted by rapper Foxy Brown, a...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: Erin Barker, Credit: Sarah Stacke
A daughter realizes how naïve she’s been when she learns the truth about her mother’s pregnancy; a successful businessman reveals his childhood dre...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 36
Caption: Vicki Juditz, Credit: Braden Moran
In this hour, stories from Los Angeles. A divorced woman does a complete makeover on her lifestyle, an Air Force veteran describes what its like to...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
Caption: Aubrey Edwards
In this hour, a basement fire leads to a wedding, a young man in Jamaica is obsessed with a comic book, a child from a strict home lets off steam ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Beth Gebresilasie, Credit: Autumn Stein
A special live edition of The Moth -- with five stories from a night showcasing the graduates of Moth High School storytelling workshops. Join us t...

  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Shannon Cason, Credit: Mike Martens
A man enters a world of high stakes gambling; a family tragedy turns into a stand-off with police detectives; a neuroscientist searches for clues o...

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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