February 9th, 2016

A special Valentine's Day episode on The Moth Podcast. Three stories all about love and the heart.

Women in the World

A special episode featuring stories from women around the world. Resilient children, computer crashes, swimming lessons, life after a house fire, standing up to bullies and accepting help from strangers. Hosted by The Moth’s Executive Producer Sarah Austin Jenness. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Katie Smith struggles to survive in an abusive home.

Catherine Palmer suffers a computer failure while working on her Phd.

Cal Wilson is inspired by her five year old son to  take swimming lessons.

Liz Allen is a kid when her house burns down.

Kusum Thapa is a doctor in Nepal who advocates for victims of sexual abuse.

Beverly Engelman is a fiercely independent octogenarian who needs help from her neighbors after a stroke.

March 1st, 2016

Three stories developed and crafted in The Moth Community Program: A daughter is confronted by her parent’s empty fridge, a girl struggles with her family’s neighborly etiquette, and a teacher speaks up in defense of one of her female students.

Live From Dublin

A special live edition of The Moth in Dublin at Liberty Hall. A young woman must decide if she wants the surgery that might give her a few extra inches of height, a Fulbright Scholar confronts a bike thief on the streets of Dublin and a nine-year old boy enters the concentration camp Bergen Belsen.

March 15th, 2016

George Plimpton gives an auction winner a star-studded walkthrough of legendary NYC eatery Elaine's, and Isobel Connelly discovers she has a heart condition at age six.

March 29th, 2016

An aspiring pickpocket rises to the top of his game, and the inventor of the Baby Calzone runs into trouble with the Mob.

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Sarah Schlesinger

Sarah Schlesinger is the Chair of the IRB and Director of The Clinical Scholars Program as well as an Associate Professor and Senior Attending Physician at The Rockefeller University.

Robin Frankel

Robin Frankel is a public defender in the South Bronx with the Legal Aid Society and an adjunct Professor with Pace Law School. She lives in New Rochelle with her husband and 2 kids. 

Deirdre Bowen

After practicing law for four years, Deirdre Bowen went back to graduate school and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology - a soft science - these days she’s a law professor, and all of her publications involve sociological studies of legal issues.

A Nobel Path

A special celebration from the world of science, from the 8th grade science fair to the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Calvin Trillin

Calvin has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for forty years, he has been called "perhaps the finest reporter in America." His wry commentary on the American scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a "happy eater" have earned him renown as "a classic American humorist." His book About Alice, a 2007 New York Times best seller that was hailed as "a miniature masterpiece" followed two other best-selling memoirs, Remembering Denny and Messages from My Father.

The Chicken Vanishes

by Calvin Trillin

A Chinatown chicken plays tic-tac-toe.

The Met, Mrs. Vreeland, and Me

by Andrew Solomon

An awkward teenager flourishes in the glamour of the the Metropolitan Museum.

Andrew Solomon & Calvin Trillin

An awkward teenager flourishes in the glamour of the the Metropolitan Opera, and a Chinatown chicken plays Tic-Tac-Toe.

Tim FitzHigham

In addition to being a writer, comedian and artist, Tim also holds several world records for unusual feats including paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the River Thames and personally inflating the world’s largest balloon to raise awareness for environmental issues.   

Tim FitzHigham’s second attempt to cross the English channel in his bath raised over 20,000 pounds for Comic Relief and the Make Poverty History Campaign. He went on to write a book about his adventure entitled All At Sea: One Man, One Bathtub, One Very Bad Idea. The Bath now resides in the Maritime Museum of Great Britain.

Catherine Cross

Catherine Cross always imagined she would eventually be a retired bridal seamstress living in Ireland, but instead she says she’s become an entirely different person.  She’s now working for the Transgender Equality Network in Ireland advocating for students and providing training for teachers and school staff.  She’s also pursuing her Masters in Rights and Social Policy at Maynooth University. 

Noreen Riols

Noreen Riols was born in Malta of English parents and lives with her French husband in a seventeenth-century house in a village near Versailles. After the war, she joined the BBC, where she met her husband, a journalist with the World Service. She is the author of eleven books, published in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, and the US. She has written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and for several years contributed features from Paris to Woman’s Hour. She is an experienced public speaker with an impressive list of credits to her name and has also broadcast on radio and television programmes across the world. She was awarded the Medaille des Volontaires de la Résistance and on July 14th, 2014, France’s National Day, she was awarded a medal making her a Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honour. Her 10th book, The Secret Ministry of Ag. and Fish, was published in 2013 to great acclaim. Her 11th book, Autumn Sonata, has been published as an e-book.

Ralph Was Right

by Sarah Schlesinger

Immunologist Sarah Schlesinger must try to save her mentor's life with his own work in cellular immunity.

The Princess and the Queen

by Robin Frankel

Robin Frankel attends the Nobel Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden as the guest of a Nobel Laureate.