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The Moth Podcast
August 12, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
Gambling and Long Lost Dads
A young woman meets her brother for the first time at their father's funeral, a professional blackjack player faces down his gambling demons, and Colin Quinn (Weekend Update, SNL) is hired to do comedy for Robert DeNiro's birthday party...and bombs.
The Moth Podcast
August 5, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
Goats, Cops and Haircuts
A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; and novelist/screenwriter Richard Price ("Clockers," "Lush Life," "The Wire") gets a lesson in interrogation in the back of a NYC cop car.
The Moth Radio Hour
Soldiers, Skydives, Firemen and Heartbreak
A man in a mid-life crisis takes a terrifying parachute jump; an Iraq war veteran shares details of his battle back home; a daughter sits at the bedside of her ailing father; a fireman tries to save two children; and a would-be Romeo laments the agony of platonic love.
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The Moth Podcast
July 15, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
Love, Faith, and Money
A man enters a world of high stakes gambling; a family tragedy turns into a stand-off with police detectives; and a neuroscientist searches for clues of God's existence.
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The Moth Podcast
July 8, 2014
The Moth Podcast
July 1, 2014
The Moth Podcast
June 24, 2014
The Moth Podcast
June 10, 2014
The Moth Radio Hour
All-Stars, Veterans, and Boxers
A 16 year-old takes her little brother on a cross-country goose chase to use free tickets to an All-Star Game; a young man wants to finally meet his troubled Vietnam veteran father; a grandmother demonstrates her boxing moves; and a cousin has a secret life.
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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
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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.
Story synopsis:
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.