Remembering Our Loved Ones Through Story: The Moth Radio Hour

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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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 by Moth Artistic Director, Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: Sharon D'Orsie goes on adventures with her aging mother. Adrienne Lotson worries she's not cut out to be a chaplain. Writer Elizabeth Gilbert shares her struggle in dealing with her partner’s terminal illness and what it taught her about living. Podcast # 761 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hamnet is the winner of Two After Awards, including Best Actress and Outstanding British Film.
0:05.0	Who are you looking for?
0:06.0	William Shakespeare.
0:07.0	And winner of Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Actress.
0:11.0	Tell me a story.
0:12.0	The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.
0:16.0	What story would you like?
0:17.0	Something that moves you.
0:19.0	Starring Jesse Buckley and Paul Meskoll, Hamnet is a monumental cinematic experience
0:23.6	and one of the best films ever made.
0:26.6	Hamnet in Cinemas Now. This is The Moth Radio Hour, and I'm Catherine Burns.
0:47.3	I've worked at the Moth for more than 20 years, and one of my favorite parts of my job is all the people I get to meet. The storytellers,
0:55.4	of course, but also their friends and family. There are so many people who I'd never get to
1:00.3	meet in real life, but who I've had the privilege of getting to know a little bit when their
1:04.7	loved one tells a story about them. This is especially true when a storyteller is talking about someone who has died.
1:12.6	Through our stories, we're able to keep the people we love alive long after they leave us.
1:18.6	I think of comedian Mike DiStefano's wife, Franny.
1:22.6	Two weeks later, they sent her out of the hospice because she started to get better.
1:26.6	She was like thrown out of hospice for not dying.
1:31.5	And only she could pull that off.
1:33.3	She was a young Italian girl and she was not interested in suffering and dying.
1:38.3	Like who is?
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