From BRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host Jay Allison, producer of this radio show.

This time we have a live performance from the Union Chapel in London. The event celebrated the release of our book

How to Tell a Story in the UK. Here's our host of the Night, Writer and Performer John Good.

Welcome to the moth mainstage here in beautiful writer and performer John Good.

Welcome to the moth main stage here in beautiful London!

My name is John Good.

I will be your host for the evening. We're so excited to be here with you. We have not been here since 2019.

And we've all been through a lot. We've been through a president. You've been through a prime minister.

We've all been through a global pandemic. Let's get a round

applause just for being here this evening for making it out. We're also super

excited. We're celebrating our 25th anniversary this year at the mall.

25 years of one stage, one mic one storyteller telling stories to let us all know

do we have more in common than we have differences. To celebrate our 25th anniversary we've

released a book how to tell a story. It is filled with wonderful tidbits and

guidelines and anecdotes. You might even find a quote from someone you recently

met. So our theme for tonight is

holding on and letting go and I've gotten I've hung out here in London for a

couple of days and there definitely some things I'm going to hold on to. One is how

delightful and wonderful and warm the people of London are. I hang out in New

York every so often and it's very different in New York like in New New York, if you are in the crosswalk,

there's a solid chance someone might try to hit you

with their car, and then they will yell,

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