The Moth Radio Hour: In Service Of

This episode originally aired on April 19th, 2022. In this hour, the people we've loved and lost, their memories preserved in these stories. Mothers, partners, and the colorful residents of a nursing home, with special excerpts from the Moth's audio book. This episode is hosted b ...  Show more

At age nine, poet Javier Zamora began a harrowing 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States. More than twenty years later, he shared his story, revisiting the fear, endurance, and quiet courage he experienced as a child navigating an unimaginable change. This episo ...  Show more

In this week’s episode, our storytellers face life-or-death moments they’ll never forget.

Part 1: On a trip to Colombia for a research conference, biologist Stephanie Galla must rely on her fight-or-flight instincts when she is cornered by a mugger with ...

Actress and musician Jackie Tohn (Nobody Wants This) joins Andy Richter to discuss how a rooster named Frog inspired her to become a vegetarian, the therapist that told her that her relationship "picker is broken,” getting started in Hollywood as a teenager, and much more. 

An assistant prosecutor is murdered on the same night a man he sent to death row has escaped. Suspicion falls on the escaped murderer, but is he the real culprit?Original Air Date: July 24, 1952Originating from New YorkStarring: Carlton Kadell as Jonathan KeggSupport the show mon ...  Show more

Fiercely intelligent, fantastically transgressive, Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (PM Press, 2023) is an intimate portrait of the lives of sex workers. A polyphonic story of triumph, survival, and solidarity, this collection showcases the vastly different experiences ...  Show more