This week on The Moth, an author who treasures the
art of letter-writing is spellbound by an inmate who becomes a pen pal, and more true stories told live!
In this episode of The Moth Radio Hour, a severely stuttering
child years later becomes the world’s premier jaguar expert, and more true stories told live.
The Moth features true stories told live without notes. This week on The Moth Radio Hour, a
batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a
left-handed bat-stretcher, an Irish-Catholic family obsessed with the
Kennedys dedicates a summer to spying on their idols, a comedian
experiences the ultimate heartbreak, and a drill sergeant faints at the
sight of blood.
This episode chronicles Al Letson’s journey teaching at a summer camp at
the Sanctuary on 8th Street, a community center in an economically
challenged neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida.
Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white.
With this episode of State of the Re:Union, we tell stories of
the Internet’s impact on community-building in human terms, on the messy
level of people’s daily existence, where its effects are rarely solely
positive or negative.
Bayard Rustin was a pivotal figure in the civil rights
movement that you may not have heard of. He counseled Martin Luther King on the
value of non-violence and helped engineer the March on Washington.
Al Letson tells Rustin’s story Saturday at 4.
Jacksonville is the largest city in the whole country: 841 acres of sprawl, highways, and strip malls dotted with tiny, unique neighborhoods. How does a place this huge and diverse lurch forward to keep pace with the rest of the country?