The Moth Radio Hour: Celebrating The Moth's 25th Anniversary

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A special episode in honor of The Moth's 25th Anniversary! Five stories spanning a quarter century, each focusing on landmark moments -- from Moth history to global events. 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.

Hosted by: Catherine Burns

Purity Kagwiria chooses a name for herself.

Nestor Gomez tries to learn English by watching television.

Tony Hendra gets inspiration from a surprising source.

Jeffery Rudell's honesty with his parents fails to yield the love, compassion and forgiveness they taught him to value.

Wanda Bullard's father trusts a prisoner, with surprising results.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Moth Radio Hour from PRX, and I'm Katherine Burns.
0:17.6	Big news!
0:18.6	This week, the Moth is celebrating her 25th anniversary.
0:22.1	On June 6, two and a half decades will have gone by since our founder, George Stoschrein,
0:27.3	held the first Moth event in his living room in New York City.
0:31.1	To celebrate, we're bringing you five stories, one from each five-year period we've been
0:35.6	around.
0:36.6	We're going to start with the present and work backwards.
0:40.0	In recent years, the Moth has grown from a local event in New York to a truly global
0:44.9	organization, and our team is contributed to work being done around the globe to empower
0:49.6	women and girls.
0:51.4	So we're going to kick things off with a story told in a Moth Global Community Workshop
0:56.2	in 2019 that we taught along with a Ford Foundation during a convening of women leaders from
1:02.3	around the world.
1:04.0	And Kenya, where our storyteller is from, is common for people to have three names, and
1:08.8	children are usually named after the elders.
1:11.8	Here's pureedie Kaguirria live at the Moth.
1:19.8	When our seven-years-old, I needed to get back taste.
1:23.5	All this time, I knew I had one name, Kaguirria, but at the church, they said I needed two names.
1:29.0	I went home and asked my grandmother what name I should be, Babches by, and she said,
1:33.4	pick my name.
1:34.4	Be called Elizabeth like me.
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