From This I Believe producer Jay Allison comes The Moth Radio Hour, a mix of humorous, heartbreaking, and poignant tales that captivate audiences with their honesty and bravery.

The Moth Radio Hour features true stories told live on stage without scripts, notes, props, or accompaniment. Each episode presents a selection of the very best stories from The Moth, which has been staging live storytelling shows since 1997.

Airs: Thursday evenings at 7 p.m., beginning February 25

What is The Moth?

Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theaters and clubs around New York City and later around the country.

Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating. Individuals, without the comfort of fame, instrument, script or props engage in the world's oldest art form — stories that will make you laugh, cry, think.

Today The Moth has three ongoing programs, all of which contribute their very best stories to The Moth Radio Hour: The Moth Mainstage, where celebrities appear alongside unique voices from all walks of life (an astronaut, an owl expert, a reformed pickpocket, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist are among the hundreds and hundreds of storytellers to date); The Moth's StorySLAM competitions, which are open to all and rapidly expanding to cities across the country; and The Moth's community outreach program, MothShop, which bring workshops to people whose stories would otherwise go unheard. To learn more about The Moth, visit themoth.org.