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Recent Episodes

  • True Stories Told Live Saturday, 03/16/13 4pm Sebastian Junger and Jamaica Kincaid share true stories this week on The Moth Radio Hour.
  • True Stories Told Live Saturday, 03/02/13 4pm This week on The Moth, an author who treasures the art of letter-writing is spellbound by an inmate who becomes a pen pal, and more true stories told live!
  • True Stories Told Live Saturday, 02/23/13 4pm In this episode of The Moth Radio Hour, a severely stuttering child years later becomes the world's premier jaguar expert, and more true stories told live.
  • True Stories Told Live Saturday, 02/16/13 4pm The Moth features true stories told live without notes. This week on The Moth Radio Hour, a batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher, an Irish-Catholic family obsessed with the Kennedys dedicates a summer to spying on their idols, a comedian experiences the ultimate heartbreak, and a drill sergeant faints at the sight of blood.
  • Host Al Letson State Of The Re:Union: Summer In Sanctuary Saturday, 02/09/13 4pm This episode chronicles Al Letson's journey teaching at a summer camp at the Sanctuary on 8th Street, a community center in an economically challenged neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida.
  • State Of The Re:Union: Pike County, Ohio Saturday, 02/02/13 4pm Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white.
  • State Of The Re:Union: Internet Communities Saturday, 01/26/13 4pm With this episode of State of the Re:Union, we tell stories of the Internet’s impact on community-building in human terms, on the messy level of people’s daily existence, where its effects are rarely solely positive or negative.
  • Bayard Rustin State Of The Re:Union: The Story of Bayard Rustin Saturday, 01/19/13 4pm

    Bayard Rustin was a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement that you may not have heard of. He counseled Martin Luther King on the value of non-violence and helped engineer the March on Washington. Al Letson tells Rustin's story Saturday at 4.

  • State Of The Re:Union: Tucson, Arizona Saturday, 01/12/13 4pm Tucson sits in the borderlands, the desert landscape where America and Mexico meet. We visit Tucson this week on State of the Re:Union.
  • Adam Burke, founder of Veterans Farm, shows us the dog tags attached to the blueberry bushes on the farm. Each dog tag represents a donation to the farm, and many are given in memory of soldiers lost at war. State Of The Re:Union: Jacksonville, Florida Saturday, 01/05/13 4pm Jacksonville is the largest city in the whole country: 841 acres of sprawl, highways, and strip malls dotted with tiny, unique neighborhoods. How does a place this huge and diverse lurch forward to keep pace with the rest of the country?
  • The Best Radio Stories Of 2012 Saturday, 12/22/12 4pm and Saturday, 12/29/12 4pm The Third Coast International Audio Festival brings the best new documentaries produced worldwide to the national airwaves in a special program hosted by award-winning writer, producer and humorist, Gwen Macsai.
  • True Stories Told Live Saturday, 12/15/12 1:11pm In this week's episode of The Moth Radio Hour, after many years in the legendary Blue Man Group, a performer makes a profound connection with an audience member.

About The VPR Saturday Special

The VPR Saturday Special brings you public radio favorites like Radio Lab and The Moth Radio Hour whenever they're available, plus other specials and documentaries you won't want to miss from VPR, NPR, American Radio Works, and more.