Pearls, Popped Collars, and a Guyanese American

by Ann Jankie

Ann Jankie learns a lesson in turning embarrassment and worry into one of pride.

Robert Sherer & Ann Jankie

Robert Sherer cares for his elderly grandmother, but can't escape her concerning eye. And Ann Jankie learns a lesson in turning embarrassment and worry into one of pride.

Dog Mother, Tour Guide, and Milli Vanilli

This episode is available on your local radio station, on PRX and below via The Moth Player. It will be published on  iTunes | Spotify | RadioPublic | RSS on date of upload to podcast feed 8/24/21

A woman becomes a stepmother to a dog, a tour guide in Toronto confronts racism, a mother learns the meaning of “Little pitchers have big ears”, and one half of the pop duo Milli Vanilli tells his side of the story. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Sara Barron learns to share custody of a dog with her husband's ex-girlfriend.
Falen Johnson confronts racism and her own biases while taking a tour group through “Invisible Toronto.”
Catherine Palmer takes her young sons on a work trip where they learn some inappropriate toasts, which they repeat at church. 
Fabrice Morvan shares his memories of the rise and fall of Milli Vanilli.

Boyhood

A preacher's kid takes money from his grandfather, a high schooler chases his dog out onto the Grand Concourse, and a former child soldier negotiates high school in New York City. Hosted by The Moth's founder, George Dawes Green. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Ishmael Beah comes to New York as a teenager after years of fighting as a child soldier in Sierra Leone and gets a second chance at childhood.

Wilson Portorreal runs into traffic to save Hershey, the family dog.

Christian Garland steals money from his grandfather to buy sneakers and has to work to regain his trust.

Holiday Special 2015: Sing Sing, Ornaments, Car Accidents, Curses

A special holiday edition of The Moth Radio Hour: A family tradition endures community-wide scandal, a single woman tries to find her soulmate for Hanukkah, a daughter honors her mother's last Christmas wish, a guard works New Year's Eve at Sing Sing prison, and the holiday spirit fills an emergency room. This hour is hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Tricia Rose Burt tries to reunite her family with Christmas ornaments.

Matthew Dicks has just finished Christmas shopping for all his friends when he gets in a near fatal car accident.

Alexandra Rosas gives her son one last gift from his grandmother.

Ted Conover, a writer working undercover as a corrections officer, witnesses New Year's Eve at Sing Sing prison.

Amy Klein is 38 and single and is told by a Rabbi in Jerusalem that she'll meet her husband by Hanukkah.

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500th Episode Special

On this special 500th episode of the podcast, we dig through our archives and pick some of our favorite stories that have been shared on The Moth stage. Catherine Burns, The Moth’s Artistic Director, and George Dawes Green, The Moth founder, join Dan Kennedy in hosting.

Barbara Collins Bowie

Barbara Collins Bowie was born in 1947 Jackson, Mississippi, where she endured the oppression of those times throughout her childhood and adult life. Barbara got involved with the Civil Rights movement at the early age of 13, inspired by her brother, a Freedom Rider. Barbara became a Licensed Vocational Nurse in 1969 and started out her nursing career in Neonatal JCU at Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center. In 1994 Barbara became a published poet-writer and established the Bowie Foundation "Arts in Focus" After School Program, devoting her life to helping youth realize their artistic abilities early in life and use the fine arts as an outlet and alternative to negative behavior. The Dr. Bowie Scholarship Foundation, named in honor of her late husband, Dr. Jesse Bowie, provides performing arts after school and summer programs, educational and community events and many other services for youth and their families in both Bexar and Wilson counties. In 2015 Mrs. Bowie created and introduced a Proclamation for the first Dr. Bowie Foundation Freedom Riders' "Passing of the Torch" Ceremony, with honored recipient, Commissioner Tommy Calvert, Jr., at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. This program, slated to be presented annually in the City of San Antonio and other cities across the nation, presents a symbolic Torch of Education, Unity, Peace and Love, to a qualified youth, individual and/or organization, in an effort to encourage future generations to use the powerful stories of the Freedom Riders to maintain awareness of the continued peaceful pursuit of freedom, justice and racial equality in our nation and the world.

The Freedom Riders and Me

by Barbara Collins Bowie

A woman finds motivation through the hardships of Jim Crow in Mississippi.

The Freedom Riders and Me: Barbara Collins Bowie

A woman finds motivation through the hardships of Jim Crow in Mississippi.

Cheryl Della Pietra

Cheryl Della Pietra is a longtime New York City magazine editor, writer, and copy editor. She has published numerous stories in such magazines as Marie Claire, Redbook, and POV Magazine. She currently lives in Branford, Connecticut with her husband and son.

Martha Ruiz Perilla

Martha Ruiz-Perilla is an artist based in the Lower East Side, where she lives with her husband Marc and her dog Queso. Her love for storytelling, a tradition in her family, earned her the nickname of RadioMartha. Born and raised in Colombia, Martha graduated from Dental School in 1992. She has lived for over 20 years in New York City telling her stories through her artwork and her writing. Martha ascribes most of her anecdotes to her experience as an immigrant. She was a graduate fellow and class salutatorian at Christie’s Education in 2002, earning a masters degree in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art. Her artwork, which includes painting, sculpture, and installation, is part of private and public collections in the US and abroad. While living in the US she has held a myriad of jobs, the most difficult, perhaps, being a Mime’s Assistant, due to the impossibility to talk while at work.

Boots Riley

Boots Riley is a co-founder of the critically acclaimed and overtly political hip-hop group The Coup, as well as the group's lead producer, arranger and songwriter. Boots is an activist whose fervent dedication to social change is the overriding influence on every Coup album. His involvement in music was informed by earlier work in radical community organizing, artists like Public Enemy and KRS-One, and a heavy-duty leftist reading list that included Marx and Mao. Since their last release in 2012, The Coup has toured Europe and the US extensively. In the summer of 2014, The Coup’s Shadowbox premiered at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Boots’ latest projects include the screenplay Sorry to Bother You, published by McSweeney’s and set to begin production later this year, as well as a book of lyrics and anecdotes Tell Homeland Security- We Are The Bomb, out now on Haymarket Books.

Gonzo Girl

by Cheryl Della Pietra

An aspiring writer tries to land a job with Hunter S. Thompson.

Opposing Forces

by Martha Ruiz Perilla

A dental student travels to a dangerous Colombian town to finish her residency.

Treasure Island

by Boots Riley

A musician comes face to face with military police.

Under the Gun

In this hour, three stories about times we come across guns in our lives. An aspiring writer tries to land a job with Hunter S. Thompson; a dental student travels to a dangerous Colombian town to finish her residency; and a music artist comes face to face with military police. Hosted by The Moth's Senior Producer, Meg Bowles. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Cheryl Della Pietra gets acquainted with gun-toting Hunter S. Thompson.

Martha Ruiz Perilla is asked to save a life or lose her own.

Boots Riley is trying to get home, but runs into problems on a naval base in San Francisco.

Nate Charles

Nate Charles Troisi is an award winning actor, writer and director originally based in Melbourne, Australia and now based in NYC. He's written and directed films and plays, is part of the Australian sketch group Middle Brow and even released an album as 50% of Australian hip-hop group Arty Bucco. He was recently featured as a voice actor on Cartuna's upcoming series Dr. Hoop, and has just performed his solo show David Troisi Isn't Gay to sold out crowds in Australia. As a performer he’s been featured on multiple podcasts and radio shows in Australia and in the US, and is about to open his solo show at The Tank theatre for the second time in NYC.

Take Care

by Nate Charles

Nate Charles deals with his distant-sounding father.

Nate Charles & Adam Gopnik

Nate Charles deals with his distant-sounding father, and Adam Gopnik battles liberal guilt with his son in a sauna.