Moth Stories
Recorded August 20, 2019My Summer of Growing Up
by Katya Duft
Katya Duft goes camping for her 15th birthday.
by Katya Duft
Katya Duft goes camping for her 15th birthday.
Aditya Dakshinamourtay learns a lesson about negotiating.
Brenda Williams finds meaning in a set of pots and pans.
Alistair Bane finds a kindred spirit in his horse, Bo.
Kathi Kinnear Hill has hard conversations on the campaign trail.
Jason Schommer has a chance encounter in a grocery story.
Samira is a writer and performer based in Portland, Oregon. She is a winner of the Moth GrandSlam championship and has appeared on RISK! and Pickathon.
Lizzie lives in Washington, D.C., where she has the incredibly cool job of producing and hosting the Smithsonian's podcast, "Sidedoor." She still has a sweet tooth, but she has not eaten a gumball since that day in 2015, and probably never will again.
Lizzie Peabody risks it all for the ultimate forbidden fruit: a gumball.
This week, we're talking about one of the most powerful feelings in the world: shame; maybe it starts as a pit in your stomach when you put your foot in your mouth or washes over you like a wave when someone points out something you hoped they wouldn’t notice. Our storytellers this week show us that the only way to beat back the shame dragon is to talk about it.
Hosted by: Michelle Jalowski
Storytellers: Lizzie Peabody, Samira Sahebi
This week, we're talking about one of the most powerful feelings in the world: shame; maybe it starts as a pit in your stomach when you put your foot in your mouth or washes over you like a wave when someone points out something you hoped they wouldn’t notice. Our storytellers this week show us that the only way to beat back the shame dragon is to talk about it.
Hosted by: Michelle Jalowski
Storytellers: Lizzie Peabody, Samira Sahebi
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The victim of a random stabbing struggles to reestablish his life while suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, author Nathan Englander describes coming of age at 19 while traveling through Europe to witness the fall of The Berlin Wall, and an artist and documentary film maker loses three years of work in an instant and finds it hard to continue. 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.
Ed Gavagan is nearly stabbed to death by a gang, then loses his job and his home while working through PTSD.
Nathan Englander is still a teenager when he heads to Europe hoping to witness the fall of Communism in East Berlin.
Ellie Lee suffers an enormous setback in the making of her documentary but gets inspired, years later, to try again.
This week, two stories about moments of reckoning.
This episode is hosted by Jon Goode. Recording support from Tiffany Goode.
Storytellers: Julie Baker, Meg Lavery
Houston born and Nigerian-raised, Hope Iyiewaure now lives in Chicago. He just finished his final year of medical school. You can usually catch him cycling through the city on the hunt for the best Korean BBQ Chicago has to offer, or teaching himself new skills.