05:58
Just Past Anatolia
Christy Kent tracks her relationship to pornography through the years as a transgender woman.
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The Moth Podcast
May 27, 2014
The Moth Podcast
May 13, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
Auctions and Boxers
George Plimpton gives an auction winner a star-studded walkthrough of legendary NYC eatery Elaine's; rookie reporter Lewis Lapham learns a lot about the world when he has to break some bad news to a new widow; World Boxing Light Heavyweight Champion Jose Torres defines and then conquers fear; Christopher Hitchens is deified in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Hosted by George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
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George Plimpton gives an auction winner a star-studded walk through the legendary NYC eatery Elaine's.
Scandal, vice and magnificent hypocrisy: the truth about the press in 1950s America, as seen by a wide-eyed cub reporter.
A boxer defines and then conquers fear.
A man is deified in Ceylon.
The Moth Radio Hour
Adolescence and Agony
A teenage boy has a standing Saturday night date with his grandma, a quest for a perfect first kiss, a young woman worries when her mother intercepts a romantic letter, a teen faces a wild buck in the woods and a middle school mystery involving a treasured pencil case.
The Moth Podcast
April 15, 2014
The Moth Podcast
April 8, 2014
05:23
Tackle Football Birthday Party
A boy who loves Barbies is terrified at the thought of playing tackle football.
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The Moth Podcast
April 1, 2014
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March 4, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
Korea, Colons, Pickups and Pranks
A life-changing email arrives from an almost-stranger; a single man ventures into a gay bar in Greenwich Village in the 1970’s; an adoptee fears rejection by her birth family in Korea; and a newlywed’s stomach ache turns life threatening.
The Moth Radio Hour
Paul Bowles, Exile, and a Bar Mitzvah
A boy's Bar Mitzvah becomes a family battle ground, three literary pilgrims search for the author Paul Bowles in Morocco, and a novelist decides that the only way to cure her writer's block is to block out the world.
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Pornography, Divinity and Mercy
A father of twin teenage boys finds the internet a scary place for impressionable minds; a woman circles back to appreciate her strict minister grandfather; and a man strives to grant forgiveness after a devastating loss.
The Moth Radio Hour
Bulls, Bikes, Bullets, Brother
A college student goes running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain; the complications of bicycle shopping; warning signs on a Match.com date; family secrets; and surviving the Khmer Rouge.
12:25
A Little More Every Day
by Nicole Kear
Nicole Kear comes to terms with her degenerative blindness.
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Firemen, Bourbon, and Bathhouses
A literary woman sparks a romance with a New York City fireman, Jim Beam's great-grandson describes growing up under the watchful eye of his famous Kentucky bourbon family, and a father and son battle liberal guilt in a sauna.
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Cops, Dumpster Diving and Mental Illness
A tough New York City cop gets a small, fluffy dog; a college student tries dumpster diving; a Brooklyn mom has to deviate from her birth plan; and a surfer contends with his wife’s deep depression.