Aisha Rodriguez is a college junior who lives in Harlem. She is passionate about environmental racial, gender justice and empowering her community, whether it be through telling personal stories or engaging in dialogue with her peers.
Meredith Morrison is an educator who lives in Maine with her girlfriend her their menagerie of cats.
Jayson Nuñez hails from Washington Heights, NYC. He is a junior at Ithaca College majoring in television and radio. In his free time, he plays basketball and rides his bike through New York City.
Jitesh Jaggi is a recent immigrant from India and two-time Moth StorySLAM winner currently living in Chicago. He ended his career in Finance one day when he lost all the data that he forgot to save on an Excel sheet, and realized that he just didn't care. That tipping point led to him becoming a writer and he is currently working on a book of essays.
In this hour, we're drawing back the curtain! Surprises, discoveries, and difficult realizations. All will be revealed... This hour is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.
Linda King makes a grave mistake at a wake.
Aisha Rodriguez has always felt like one of the guys, until she has a reckoning with her sense of safety.
Meredith Morrison gets a coveted role in the school play much to her chagrin.
Betty Reid Soskin, a Black woman, and her family try to adjust when move to an all-white neighborhood in the 1960s.
Jayson Nuñez gets the bike he always wanted.
Jitesh Jaggi helps bring breakdancing to the streets of Mumbai.
Airdate: 3/9/2021
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In this hour, we're drawing back the curtain! Surprises, discoveries, and difficult realizations. All will be revealed... This hour is hosted by Moth Senior Curatorial Producer, Suzanne Rust. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.
Linda King makes a grave mistake at a wake.
Aisha Rodriguez has always felt like one of the guys, until she has a reckoning with her sense of safety.
Meredith Morrison gets a coveted role in the school play much to her chagrin.
Betty Reid Soskin, a Black woman, and her family try to adjust when move to an all-white neighborhood in the 1960s.
Jayson Nuñez gets the bike he always wanted.
Jitesh Jaggi helps bring breakdancing to the streets of Mumbai.
by Linda King
Linda King makes a grave mistake at a wake.
Aisha Rodriguez has always felt like one of the guys, until she has a reckoning with her sense of safety.
Meredith Morrison gets a coveted role in the school play, much to her chagrin.
Betty Reid Soskin, a Black woman, and her family try to adjust when move to an all-white neighborhood in the 1960s.
by Jayson Nuñez
Jayson Nuñez gets the bike he always wanted.
by Jitesh Jaggi
Jitesh Jaggi helps bring breakdancing to the streets of Mumbai.
This week, we're celebrating International Women's Day with a story of resilience. This episode of The Moth Podcast is hosted by Kate Tellers.
Storyteller: Beth de Araújo
Beth is a Writer and Director. She was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Beth also turned this story into a screenplay, titled Josephine, which received the SFFILM Rainin Filmmaking Grant and was featured in the 2018 Sundance Directors and Screenwriters Labs. Beth’s freshman feature, Soft and Quiet, is currently in production in Northern California.
After witnessing a sexual assault in her childhood, Beth deals with the trauma as an adult.
This week, we're celebrating International Women's Day with a story of resilience. This episode of The Moth Podcast is hosted by Kate Tellers.
Storyteller: Beth de Araújo
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.
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.