A Family of My Own

by Melissa Rodriguez

Melissa Rodriguez grew up a foster child and then has a child of her own.

Melissa’s story comes to us from the Radio Diaries podcast.

Clementine Ford

Clementine Ford is a Melbourne-based writer for Daily Life, Australia's number one women's website. She’s currently writing her first book, Fight Like A Girl which will be released October, 2016.

John DeVore

John DeVore is a writer and editor. He recently won two James Beard awards for an essay he wrote about Taco Bell and his Mexican-American mother.

The Right To Bear Your Soul

by John DeVore

A man tells us about the last lesson his father taught him.

Like Tears in Rain

by Clementine Ford

A young woman learns that her mother is facing a deadly illness. 

John DeVore & Clementine Ford

A man tells us about the last lesson his father taught him and a young woman learns that her mother is facing a deadly illness. 

College Program

The Moth College Program provides the space, tools and expertise for students to practice the art and craft of personal storytelling.

Our goal is to help students reflect on their lives, build community, and gain confidence in their own voice and story!

Live from Sydney

A special episode, recorded live at The Sydney Opera House. A young Malaysian Australian man begins to appreciate his culture through the lens of rap music, a comic’s questionable joke makes him the most hated man in Australia, and a journalist goes undercover in North Korea. Hosted by David Crabb with additional hosting by Jay Allison. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Omar Musa

Omar Musa is a Malaysian-Australian author, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He is the former winner of the Australian Poetry Slam and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam. His debut novel Here Come the Dogs, was published by Penguin Australia in 2014. 

Dan Ilic

Dan Ilic is one of Australia’s most prolific comedic voices. Dan has been making television in Australia for ten years., and is a regular on comedy panels and news magazine programs. Most recently Dan was Senior producer of Satire for AJ+ English, Al Jazeera’s digital platform for millennials.

Suki Kim

Suki Kim is an investigative journalist, a novelist, and the only writer ever to have lived undercover in North Korea for immersive journalism. Born and raised in South Korea, Kim has traveled to North Korea since 2002, when she entered Pyongyang by joining a Kim Jong Il loyalist group for a cover feature for the New York Review of Books. During a decade-long investigation, she has witnessed both Kim Jong-Il’s 60th birthday celebration and his death at age 69; she also profiled the New York Philharmonic's 2008 concert there for Harper's, for whom she has written extensively about North Korean defectors. In 2011, she went undercover in Pyongyang for six months to live with the future leaders during the final year of Kim Jong-il's reign, which gave her unprecedented insights into the psychology of its elite and the country’s current state during the regime change. Kim's New York Times bestselling nonfiction book Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite is a literary, investigative documentation of North Korea's most important recent history. Her first novel, The Interpreter, was a finalist for a PEN Hemingway Prize, and her articles and essays regularly appear in New York Times, Harper’s and The New Republic, where she is a contributing editor. She has been featured around the world, including on CNN's Christian Amanpour Show and Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, and her 2015 TED Talk has since drawn millions of viewers online. She holds a Guggenheim fellowship, a George Soros's Open Society fellowship, a Fulbright Research Grant, and was recently a Ferris journalism fellow at Princeton University. 

Paul Bacon and Bokara Legendre

An unauthorized nap puts a police officer in a compromising position and a girl grows up on a safari.

The Call of The Wild

by Bokara Legendre

A girl grows up on a safari.

Moths in Flight

Pagan Fundraisers, Blue Haired Boy, Autism and Oscar

A woman visits a fortuneteller and is told she is cursed, a stay-at-home mother contemplates becoming a minister, the father of an autistic child describes his son’s perilous adventure and a woman takes in a history buff in need of shelter. This hour includes an interview with Patricia Wheeler, Michigan StorySLAM producer. Hosted by Senior Producer, Jenifer Hixson. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

The Hat

by Omar Musa

Omar Musa travels to Malaysia and finds his roots.

The Most Hated Man in Australia

by Dan Ilic

Dan Illic does a parody of an Australian tragedy that some felt was definitely "too soon."

Undercover in North Korea with its Future Leaders

by Suki Kim

Suki Kim is a journalist who risks her life posing as a teacher in an elite North Korean school.

Mets, McDonalds, and a White House Secret

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In this hour: Secrets of a speech writer in the White House, stories from Shea Stadium and the Bronx, and a first time Dad becomes an overnight celebrity when he writes a children's book -- for adults. Hosted by Sarah Austin Jenness. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Eddie Hejka

Eddie Hejka is a happy Detroiter of Polish descent, which is why is last name is pronounced Hay-ka. He is one of eleven brothers and sisters and has lived nearly all of his 57-plus years in Detroit. He is a husband, father, special education teacher, local union president, coach and activist. He thinks we should squeeze as much life into the time we have been given.