From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bulls and in this hour we have three stories

from our London main stage. Our first story comes from Tim Fitzhianne. In addition to being

a writer, comedian and artist, Tim also holds several world records for unusual feats, including

paddling a paper boat down 160 miles of the river Tim's and personally inflating the world's largest

balloon to raise awareness for environmental issues. Here's Tim Fitzhianne, live at the Moth.

Imagine if you will, I'm out rowing in the middle of the English channel. It's a lovely

stretch of water. It's very difficult to row, however. And I'm rowing quite quickly, really,

really, quite quickly, fast. It's the fastest I've ever rode in my life. It's so fast that my lungs

are beginning to die. And the reason for this incredible burst of speed, some would say legendary

burst of speed, is that just there in this picture of me rowing at this angle, just behind me,

just bearing down on me, is an oil tanker. It's a third of a mile long, and it is bearing down on me

with really incredible speed, which is why I am rowing faster than anyone has ever rode in their

lives. I am desperately trying to get out of the way of that massive, massive oil tanker.

Did I mention, by the way, that I am sitting rowing in a bathtub? It's at moments like this,

you question how these things happened. I think it started in a bathtub very like the one that I

was rowing in. I was lying in the bath, I was thinking to myself, I wonder if anyone has ever

rode the English channel in a bathtub. I started looking it up, and the more I looked it up and

the more I thought about it, the more it looked like no one had ever rode the English channel in a

bathtub. And the more I looked at this, I thought someone should rode the English channel in a

bathtub. And then the more I thought about this, the more I thought, you know what, the person

that should row the English channel in a bathtub.

That should be me.

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