Jay Allison
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494 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
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Jay Allison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're listening to the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm Jay Allison.
Our final story in this hour comes from the writer Ishmael Bia.
Ishmael recognizes the identity of his village by its soundscape and recognizes himself by the narratives he stores in his mind.
Both of these are soon changed by war in his country.
A caution, there are some vivid descriptions.
He told this story at a Moth event celebrating the 100th birthday of the New York Public Library.
Here's Ishmael Beah.
That was Ishmael Bia.
Believing his family was dead, Ishmael was pulled into the violence and recruited as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone.
His memoir about his experience, A Long Way Gone, has sold more than a million copies, and it's been translated into 40 languages.
That's it for this episode of the Moth Radio Hour.
We hope you'll join us next time.
And that's the story from the moth.
This episode of The Moth Radio Hour was produced by me, Jay Allison, Katherine Burns, and Meg Bowles.
Co-producer, Vicki Merrick.
Associate producer, Emily Couch.
The stories were directed by Jennifer Hickson and Larry Rosen, with additional Grand Slam coaching by Jody Powell.
The rest of the Moss leadership team includes Sarah Haberman, Sarah Austin Janess, Kate Tellers, Jennifer Birmingham, Marina Cloutier, Suzanne Rust, Brandon Grant, Inga Glodowski, Sarah Jane Johnson, and Aldi Kaza.
Moss stories are true as remembered and affirmed by our storytellers.
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