Cancer, Crime, and Crypts - Piper Kerman

“All your most private moments are lived stacked on top of one another in a place where no one wants to be​.”

Photo by Sarah Stacke

Cancer, Crime, and Crypts

When a beloved patient’s cancer returns, a psychologist confesses
that she is at a loss for words, an inmate at a women’s prison describes
the surprising value of an ordinary transistor radio, and an undertaker
deals with a problematic client. Hosted by Jenifer Hixson, Senior
Director at The Moth. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and
Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Martha Manning is filled with sorrow when cancer revisits her patient.   

Piper Kerman must serve 13 months in a women’s federal prison for a crime she committed almost a decade before.   

Chris Tombline is a young undertaker who wishes he’d taken some more psych courses.

Extras From This Episode

Cancer, Crime and Crypts

Piper Kerman

Piper Kerman Extra

Piper and her husband Larry, in the vistor’s room of the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.

Chris Tombline

Chris Tombline Coffin Edit

Chris posing in a coffin.