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The Moth Radio Hour

REM, car wrecks and the circus

We explore What Went Wrong: a dad gets chummy with a rock star and causes havoc, a childhood trauma shapes a super model’s outlook and The Big Apple Circus imports communist acrobats...at the height of the cold war.

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Sep 4, 2016 • 1 min read

  • Gordon Edelstein befriends a member of the band REM and unwittingly gets him into serious legal trouble.

  • Padma Lakshmi has an accident on the way home from the hospital that gives her a giant scar on her arm.

  • Paul Binder (pictured), founder of The Big Apple Circus, imports some amazing acrobats from communist China during turbulent times.

Hosted by The Moth’s Artistic Director, Catherine Burns.

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Photo: Jason Falchook

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