The Moth Radio Hour

1/1 11a: Christian McBride, a jazz bassist, is put to the test by his idol, Freddie Hubbard; a down and out comic considers ending it all until the universe sends him an unlikely sign; and New York writer Adam Gopnik details his daughter’s cosmopolitan imaginary friend. Hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns.

Sun. 12/11 11a: A hiker is pinned underneath a refrigerator-sized boulder deep in the wilderness, a speechwriter describes his most challenging assignment ("Make Al Gore funny"), and a young art student battles her demons in the pursuit of love. 

Sun. 1/9: An evangelist searches for souls and customers in the aisles of a Target store; an adolescent money-making scheme is hatched in 1970s Spanish Harlem; filmmaker Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) pays tribute to his father; and Dan Kennedy has an unforgettable therapy session with a social worker named Milton.

Sun. 1/2 - A young woman meets her brother for the first time at their father's funeral, a professional blackjack player faces down his gambling demons, and Colin Quinn (Weekend Update, SNL) is hired to do comedy for Robert DeNiro's birthday party...and bombs.

Sun. 6/13: A prisoner in a small town lock-up gets sprung on a promise; a man desperate for a cure for depression travels to Africa to try a tribal remedy; and novelist/screenwriter Richard Price ("Clockers," "Lush Life," "The Wire") gets a lesson in interrogation in the back of a NYC cop car.

Sun. 6/20: Geneticist Paul Nurse, a Nobel Laureate, learns the truth about his origins, a nine-alarm blaze in Boston's Chinatown teaches a daughter about her father's wisdom, and a cop's misadventures during a stakeout.