Science Live from the World Science Festival

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True stories told live in in the USA: Adam Gopnik introduces stories with a science flavour from the Lincoln Center in New York City.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. 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 theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.

Only heard of this in the last few months I think, occasional thing on UK Radio Four.

First item is a tale from NASA astronaut, yes I can spell his name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Massimino

Good stuff, may not get out the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08z8x1n#play

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