The Moth Radio Hour: Cancer, Crime and Crypts

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When a beloved patient’s cancer returns, a psychologist confesses that she is at a loss for words, an inmate at a women’s prison describes the surprising value of an ordinary transistor radio, and an undertaker deals with a problematic client. Hosted by Jenifer Hixson, Senior Director at The Moth. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.

Hosted by: Jenifer Hixson

Storytellers: Martha Manning, Chris Tombline, Piper Kerman

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0:00.0	From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jennifer Hickson, Senior Producer at the Moth,
0:18.2	and I'll be your host this time. The Moth is unscripted, true tales told by regular
0:23.2	folks and rock on tours alike, who bring stories from their lives to the stage. This hour,
0:29.0	we have three stories for you. We'll hear about a clinical psychologist with car trouble,
0:33.5	and inmates' desperate desire for a simple transistor radio and an undertaker with a problematic
0:38.7	client. This first story is from way back in the Moth's history. The name of the show
0:45.3	was Savage Mood, Stories of Melancholy. To be honest, I was a bit afraid that a show
0:50.4	about depression would be depressing, but the night started with this story from Martha
0:55.1	Manning, and the audience was immediately sucked into her world, because we're not
0:59.4	often privy to what's going on inside the head of the therapist. Here's psychologist Martha
1:04.2	Manning, live at the Moth. I'm going to talk about two breakdowns tonight. Thankfully,
1:14.8	neither are my own, although I could serenade you for the entire evening with those stories.
1:22.3	My stories are about a breakdown as a therapist, me, and a breakdown of a car, mine.
1:32.7	For a long time, I was the epitome of the perfect therapist. I had a high-rise, expensive
1:41.1	office. The Kleenex matched the carpet. It resembled in no way my own home, which was decorated
1:53.1	in one accident perpetrated upon another and another. But I loved my office. It made me
2:00.7	feel closer to being a real therapist. And for the most part, my therapy patients helped
2:09.1	in that regard. In that they seemed to respond to what I did for them and with them and
2:15.9	get better. That was until Annie. Annie was the first person who was referred to me
2:22.9	by an oncologist. After that, I got a number of referrals, because it appears that depression
2:29.7	and cancer are very much hinged, both in terms of dealing with the day to day, as well
2:37.1	as the inevitabilities that are shoved in your face. Annie and I worked together for a
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