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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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This week, we celebrate The Moth’s launch in the UK and Ireland with stories about an eventful vacation in Greece and a positive pregnancy test. This episode is hosted by Sara Barron.
Host: Sara Barron
Storytellers:
Catherine Brophy
Charlotte Mooney
The story Sara Barron mentioned in the intro was Michael Such’s “Waiting To Go“: https://themoth.org/stories/waiting-to-go
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, producer Mark here. Just wanted to let you know that in the opening, our host |
0:05.3 | mentions the existence of suicide and self-harm. If that makes you uncomfortable, maybe skip |
0:11.0 | the opening. We hope you enjoy the show. |
0:15.5 | Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Sarah Baron, your host for this week. For 2022, we've |
0:21.5 | been celebrating our 25th anniversary by going back through each year of the Moth's existence. |
0:27.2 | This episode, we're at 2014, to mark the occasion we're going to play two stories for you, |
0:33.1 | one from Dublin and one from London. Now, hosting the Moth in London is a really special |
0:38.6 | experience. I've lived in the UK for almost a decade, and in that time, I've learned this |
0:44.1 | phrase that British people often use to describe Americans, and it's not an insult, but it's |
0:50.5 | not quite a compliment either. The phrase is a bit much. So, when I first started hosting |
0:58.2 | over here, I felt this real pressure to dial down a certain amount of stereotypical American |
1:04.2 | enthusiasm and positivity. The British audience, if we're just going to dip our toe in the |
1:09.6 | water of a cultural stereotype for just a second, very generally, they're less openly emotional. |
1:16.3 | So a swell of emotion from a British crowd, be it a parlorious applause or all those tears |
1:21.5 | starting to flow, it's just way less of a thing here in the UK. But then there was this |
1:27.3 | night when I was hosting a grand slam at this venue called Union Chapel. It's this beautiful |
1:32.3 | old church in North London that's been converted into a performance venue. And midway through |
1:36.7 | the show, this guy gets up, named Michael Such. He's lovely, unassuming, it's like a little |
1:42.6 | bit nervous when he first gets up there, but then almost instantly he settles into himself |
1:47.0 | and goes on to tell the story that was a different turns frightening, impossibly funny, and in |
1:53.3 | the end unbelievably moving, about being in his early 20s, unable to manage the pressures |
1:58.7 | he was under and deciding to end his own life. The attempt was unsuccessful, obviously, |
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