The Moth Radio Hour: Live from Johannesburg

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, a special edition of The Moth Radio Hour featuring a live show from Johannesburg, South Africa. Stories of unexpected connections, scads of visitors, and putting bread on the table—literally. Hosted by Lebo Mashile with additional hosting by Moth Director Jodi Powell. The Moth Radio Hour is produced by The Moth and Jay Allison of Atlantic Public Media. Storytellers: 8 year old Webster Isheanopa Makombe's mother sends him on his first solo mission to get bread. A chance encounter rekindles Nsovo Mayimele's passion for her career. In order to support her family and all of their house guests, Mathilda Matabwa and her husband take a chance on an unconventional new business. Podcast # 901 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Jody Powell.
0:17.0	This time we have a live main stage show from Johannesburg, South Africa, which was
0:22.6	supported by the Gates Foundation. The theatre was super sold out with hundreds of people in the
0:28.5	audience, and one family even drove five hours to attend. You'll hear a big and lively crowd.
0:34.9	The theme was power and possibility. Here's our host for the night, poet, actor and advocate,
0:42.1	Lebo Maschile, who took the stage wearing an electric blue tutu with a huge train and a Winnie
0:47.9	Mandela t-shirt. Welcome to the University of Johannesburg Arts and Culture that go up at Chositelli.
0:57.0	Theeta, more importantly, welcome to the Moth, Johannesburg.
1:06.0	I'm so proud of you, Joberg. We've got a full house tonight. Tickets were sold out more than a week ago.
1:18.6	It's like it's unprecedented. It's incredible. I'm so proud of you. I'm so, so happy.
1:25.6	Tonight is very special because it's the second time that they're back in Johannesburg.
1:29.3	Shout out to you if you were here when they were here in 2016.
1:33.3	Yes, the OGs, the OGs.
1:37.3	So the power of this platform is first person narrative.
1:45.0	One mic, a stage, one person telling a first person an I, I story,
1:53.0	something that happened to you that is 100% true.
1:58.0	And this is because there's nothing really more powerful than the intimacy of being able
2:04.1	to connect to a crowd with just a mic and your own story. We have storytellers coming up one by
2:11.9	one to tell their stories. Each storyteller has got between 10 and 12 minutes to tell their story, and we are very strict about time, which is why dear Daphne is on stage.
2:26.3	So when a storyteller feels themselves being taken by the wings of the spirit and pushed beyond the time limits,
2:35.0	as the words flow out of their mouths and as you receive them,
2:41.0	Daphne will indicate that they must wrap it up.
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