The Moth Radio Hour

Sundays from 7 to 8pm on HD-1

The Moth Radio Hour on WBFO features true stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props, or accompaniment.  Each hour mixes humorous and heartbreaking tales told with honesty, bravery and wit. Debuting in 2009 with five pilots, The Moth Radio Hour was an instant success airing on over 200 public radio stations around the country.

The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate the summer evenings he spent telling stories with friends on a porch in Georgia. The screen porch had a hole where moths would flutter in and get trapped in the light. Similarly, George and his friends found that the characters in their best stories would often find themselves drawn to some bright light—of adventure, ambition, knowledge—but then find themselves burned or trapped, leaving them with some essential conflict to face before the story could reach its conclusion. The first "Moth" evening in New York took place in his living room, and has since grown to several immensly popular events, including a radio hour.