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The Moth Radio Hour: Series 1: Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart

13/12/2015

Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Moth Radio Hour, Series 1, Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart

Jay Alison hosts tales from a live event in collaboration with the World Science Festival.

True stories told live in the USA. Jay Alison hosts tales from a live event in collaboration with the World Science Festival.

True stories told live in the USA: Jay Alison hosts tales from a live event in collaboration with the World Science Festival. 

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world. 

The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. 

Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking. 

The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.

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