The Moth Radio Hour: Global Stories of Women and Girls
The Moth
The Moth
4.6 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this hour, Global Stories of Women and Girls -- hosted by Moth Storyteller, Fatou Wurie. A Kenyan student aspires to be beautiful while her mother has bigger ideas; a teenager's failing sight is revealed during a game of kickball; and a woman smites down her enemies. Those stories and more. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media.
Hosted by: Fatou Wurie.
Storytellers:
Mary Hamilton gets married to an unconventional man.
Esther Ngumbi hides an act of defiance from her mother.
Jon Howe re-commits to his ailing wife.
Emely Recinos struggles with her diminishing eye-sight.
Anne Moraa reveals her true self during a traffic jam in Nairobi.
Fatou Wurie recognizes her grandmother’s impact on her life during a trip to Sierra Leone.
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 quieted |
| 0:21.8 | 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 |
| 0:28.2 | Help us write the next 25 years of the moth story by making your year-end gift today |
| 0:33.7 | Text moth22 no spaces to 41444 to make your gift and help provide the space |
| 0:40.5 | Tools and resources needed for more people to embrace the art and craft of personal storytelling in their own lives. Thank you. |
| 1:00.6 | From PRX this is the moth radio hour. I'm Fattu Wurry and I'm one of the storytellers from the moth's global community program |
| 1:09.3 | And I'll be your host this time |
| 1:11.7 | In this hour we'll hear stories about women stories of passion and the struggle for social justice |
| 1:19.7 | Stories about brains over beauty how the truth sets us free and the cost of tradition |
| 1:27.3 | I first met the moth at a righteous retreat in Campala Uganda and it's been a love affair ever since |
| 1:33.4 | I remember bursting into tears the first time I shared my story during an intimate group session and |
| 1:40.7 | That really was also the beginning of my wondrous journey to developing and sharing my moth story to audiences around the world |
| 1:49.2 | Which I'm excited for you to hear later in the show |
| 1:53.3 | Our first storyteller in this hour is Mary Hamilton |
| 1:56.8 | She told this at one of our open-mic story slams in Louisville, Kentucky where we partner with public radio station |
| 2:05.0 | WFPL the theme of the night was for ages. Here's Mary live at the moth |
| 2:11.8 | All right, thanks |
| 2:14.8 | I |
| 2:15.8 | Embarked on a journey toward the sea of matrimony at the perilous age of 41 |
| 2:23.3 | Yeah, you think 41 a trip to marriage would be pretty smooth, but nobody had told my family |
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