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10/11/13 9:00pm |
Beauty Queens, The LBJ Library, And Holdups - It's a special live edition of The Moth at The Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas. A small town girl from Alabama attends charm school and gets "discovered." A Texas romance is thwarted by religion. And a teenage hotel clerk comes of age, at gunpoint. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour.
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10/4/13 9:00pm |
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 romantic encounter memorable; and best-selling novelist Walter Mosley cares for his ailing mother. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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9/27/13 9:00pm |
Disney, Racecars, and Redsox - A comic attends her sister’s wedding at Disneyland. Two guys try to break the Red Socks curse. The child of two hoarders digs herself out. And a young man doesn't let his lack of eyesight restrict his mobility.
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9/20/13 9:00pm |
Blues Clues, Stowaways and Marital Surprises - Popular Moth storyteller Tom Shillue hosts this hour. 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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9/13/13 9:00pm |
Party Crashes, Witch Hunts and Ninja Costumes - A collection of Moth GrandSLAM Stories from around the country. A rabbinical student answers tough questions; a couple crashes the 2008 Obama inauguration; a teacher survives a witch hunt; a tween creates a homemade Halloween costume; a woman plans a sing-along funeral finale; and a man travels to Africa to find a higher purpose. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour.
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9/6/13 9:00pm |
Partycrashers, Witchhunts and Ninja Costumes - A rabbinical student answers tough questions; a couple crashes the 2008 Obama inauguration; a teacher survives a witch hun; a tween creates a homemade Halloween costume; a woman plans a sing-along funeral finale; and a man travels to Africa to find a higher purpose.
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8/23/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 08/23/2013 - Phil Caputo shares how a bullet wound helped him heal his soul; a little girl learns what love is all about after surviving a terrible car accident; a young man and and his father succumb to guilt at the animal shelter; and a burnt-out corporate executive tries to shake her type A personality at art school. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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8/23/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour - Phil Caputo shares how a bullet wound helped him heal his soul; a little girl learns what love is all about after surviving a terrible car accident; a young man and and his father succumb to guilt at the animal shelter; and a burnt-out corporate executive tries to shake her type A personality at art school. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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8/16/13 9:00pm |
Deer Meat, Dance Moves and Motherhood - A young mother is obsessed with creating an absolutely perfect life for her children; Moth founder George Dawes Green details a bizarre interruption during a beloved poker game in Georgia and a little boy's dreamy childhood comes to a screeching halt on a North Carolina highway. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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8/9/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 08/09/2013 - 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; Former 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. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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8/2/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 08/02/2013 - A special live event from Cooper Union, Andrew Solomon describes his circuitous route to becoming a dad; astronaut Michael Massimo details his high stakes mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. And a cellist makes a disturbing discovery about a neighbor. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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7/26/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 07/26/2013 - A family of amateur detectives crack a case; a librarian takes a dance class to spice things up; a father and son come to terms in Newark Airport; a grandson brings joy to a nursing home; and a woman releases her grief and lets her passion take over. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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7/19/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 07/19/2013 - Comic Tig Notaro details her complicated relationship with her step-father; a New York City cop on a bust discovers the value of a mug shot; and a teenager rebels after her brother is disowned. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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7/12/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 07/12/2013 - Writer and bon vivant, Simon Doonan, sets out on a mission to fulfill a childhood desire; a secret finally catches up with a suburban housewife and mother; a college drop out finds himself in the unlikeliest of places and a young woman sets out to sabotage the wedding of the man she loves. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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7/5/13 9:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 07/05/2013 - An evangelist searches for souls and customers in the aisles of a Target store; an adolescent money-making scheme is hatched in 1970s Spanish Harlem; filmmaker Albert Maysles ("Gimme Shelter", "Grey Gardens") pays tribute to his father; and Dan Kennedy has an unforgettable therapy session with a social worker named Milton.
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6/28/13 7:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 06/28/2013 - Jonathan Ames ("Bored to Death") details an epic fencing match, a wallflower teaches herself the slide and ends up in the spotlight, an addict risks a devastating loss while visiting a crack house, a flight attendant contends with a passenger on his final flight, and a good Samaritan regrets a seemingly good deed. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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6/21/13 7:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 06/21/2013 - Mike Birbiglia ("Sleepwalk with Me") goes through a breakup on a remote island, two women meet by chance on a dark street and share secrets, a father admits he was not quite ready for a second child, and a live calf shows up for Thanksgiving dinner. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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6/14/13 7:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 06/14/2013 - 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. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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6/7/13 7:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 06/07/2013 - A young woman in Southern California describes her unconventional upbringing with a very free-spirited mother; a door-to-door bible salesman, circa 1953, shares sales tactics; an actor from the golden age of Hollywood reaches out from beyond the grave; and a little boy gets through a hospital stay by pretending he's a superhero. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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5/31/13 7:00pm |
The Moth Radio Hour show on 05/31/2013 - 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. True stories told live on stage -- it's the Moth Radio Hour!
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