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The Moth Radio Hour
Millionaire Hot Seat, Monkey, Assassin

A special show featuring stories from Australia. A writer and her daughter move from Aboriginal land to an impoverished community, a lonely man befriends an orphaned monkey and a famous Australian actor is horrified by a paparazzi shot of her on the beach in her "bathers".

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The Moth Podcast
March 17, 2015

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The Moth Podcast
March 3, 2015

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The Moth Radio Hour
Mothers, Virgins, and Rifles

A hair stylist recalls accompanying his father on hunting expeditions in Alabama, a young journalist carefully sets the stage to make her first time memorable, and best-selling novelist Walter Mosley cares for his ailing mother.

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The Moth Radio Hour
Rattlesnakes, Wedding Rings, and Rescue Missions

A blind man goes on an adventure to test his senses, a woman navigates the dos and donโ€™ts of widowhood, and a humanitarian rescue worker is forced to decide whether he will break the rules to save more lives.

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The Moth Podcast
December 30, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Blues Clues, Stowaways and Marital Surprises

The star of the kid's TV show Blue's Clues details his complicated relationship with fame. A 13-year-old girl from Somalia immigrates to the US and struggles to keep her troubled sister in the country. On the eve of her high school reunion, a woman copes with bombshell news: her husband thinks he might be gay.

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The Moth Radio Hour
Tattoos and Two Southern Gothics

The Moth's founder, George Dawes Green, details the fireworks when his mother learns that her family plantation is slated to be turned into a theme park; a spectacularly eccentric mother and Savannah, GA work in tandem to create a true bohemian; and a guard at Sing Sing is intrigued by a prisoner's mysterious tattoo.

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The Moth Podcast
December 9, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Prosthetics, Boot Camp, and Heartache

Double amputee Aimee Mullins chronicles her adventures with prosthetic legs as an athlete, actress and artist; the mother of a bullied teen tells the story of his suicide; Ex-NYC Mayor Ed Koch stands up to his anti-Semitic platoon leader while in training for WWII; and three teenagers from Grace King High School in New Orleans share their stories on the theme Prejudice and Power.

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The Moth Podcast
November 25, 2014

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The Moth Podcast
November 18, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Taxidermy, Orderlies and Spinal Tap

A socialite-turned social activist inherits her mother's hunting trophy collection, a hospital orderly with an attitude problem is put to the test and Tony Hendra takes us on the set of the groundbreaking hilarious 1984 mockumentary "This Is Spinal Tap."

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The Moth Podcast
November 4, 2014

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The Moth Podcast
October 28, 2014

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The Moth Podcast
October 14, 2014

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The Moth Radio Hour
Snowsuits, Swordfights, Swindles

Jonathan Ames ("Bored to Death") details an epic fencing match, a wallflower teaches herself the slide and ends up in the spotlight, a flight attendant contends with a passenger on his final flight, and a good Samaritan regrets a seemingly good deed.

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15:51
The Lost Bookbag

by Edgar Oliver

A young cadet is entrusted with vital records at a military academy. 

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The Moth Podcast
September 30, 2014

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10:38
The Real Jon Ronson

by Jon Ronson

Jon battles a Twitterbot that is using his name and his photo. 

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