The Moth Radio Hour: Camp, Cars, Cockroaches, and the Kremlin

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A girl at summer camp tries to keep up with her sophisticated fellow campers, a writer loses a treasured pair of pants, a young man accused of stealing ends up living out of his car, and a writer lands in Moscow on the eve of a revolution. Hosted by The Moth's Artistic Director, Catherine Burns. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Storytellers: Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Matthew Dicks, and Andrew Solomon.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Moth stories have the power to bring you into a world that is often not your own and leave you wishing that you could live in that world
0:07.0	Just a little bit longer since 1997 the moth has shared more than 50,000 stories with audiences around the world through shows,
0:14.9	workshops and on the moth podcast and the moth radio hour once the curtains have closed the rooms emptied and the voice is
0:21.3	Quieted it's the stories still ringing in our ears that whisper over and over we are all of us more alike than we are different
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0:33.6	Text moth22 no spaces to 41444 to make your gift and help provide the space, tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of
0:44.8	Personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you.
0:59.0	This is the moth radio hour from PRX. I'm Katherine Burns and I'll be your host for this episode.
1:05.3	The moth is all about real people telling true stories and this week we have four stories about the struggles of becoming an adult.
1:13.1	That tricky time in your late teens early 20s when you're technically a grown-up but don't always feel like one.
1:20.1	Our first story is from the writer Meg Woolitzer. Here's Meg live at the moth.
1:27.4	I grew up on Long Island in the town of Syosid which some of you may know by its Native American name exit 43.
1:41.4	But the summer I turned 15 which also happened to be the summer that Richard Nixon resigned.
1:51.6	I was sent to a camp in the Berkshire's and it changed my life.
1:55.6	I'd been to summer camp before but at those other camps we made lanyards and we had really aggressive color war
2:02.6	and we sang those corny camp songs, make new friends but keep the old one is silver and the other gold sound advice.
2:12.0	But at this camp we had Mozart Requiem in the morning and we did a lot of batik.
2:18.4	Now there's a word you don't get a chance to use in a sentence very often batik.
2:22.8	And we also acted in experimental plays in which invariably someone was supposed to go mad on stage and go running out through the audience.
2:31.9	I loved it there. I wanted to act more than anything that summer and I've been studying my favorite actresses all year.
2:40.1	I've been looking really closely at their style. I've been looking at Elizabeth Montgomery and her stirring portrayal of Samantha Stevens.
2:53.2	Karen Valentine in room 222.
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