I will have to see if I can find podcasts! When I can't sleep, I enjoy listening to podcasts. This sounds perfect! Thanks :)

If you like the Moth, you would love This American Life. I have the app on my iphone and I listen when I walk or drive longer distances. TAL has a theme for each broadcast and then 2-4 "acts" or stories that go along with the theme. I listened to one yesterday about 2 young children who were present at the burglary/murders of their mother and friends mother and how they reacted when they returned to the scene 30 years later. They are not all so tragic--some deal with the politics of the time, some are stories of people wronged and how they deal with it, some are just life stories. I like TAL better than the Moth, but I listen to them both.

Thanks, Sleeper. I'll check that.

I listened to some "Moth" stories, but found them a bit long.

We try to catch "Under the Influence" with Terry O'Reilly (sp on the surname?). It's about marketing and airs on PBS here Saturdays at 6:30 a.m.

I hadn't heard of the Moth, but I'll look for it online. Like Sleeperblues, I love This American Life.

Love The Moth and TAL. I've heard some amazing stories on The Moth. People have fascinating stories to tell.

I like "The Moth," too, as well as TAL.
"The Memory Palace" podcast is another good one, as is the "Freakonomics" one.

I'm another who loves TAL and Moth, altho my local station moved the Moth to a time when I can't listen and I have too much other things to do to bother with a podcast.

Funny TAL stories are Squirrel Cop and The Peter Pan play episode.

I love those both, Sushi. The narrative of what happens to those poor kids is hysterical, and the squirrel cop one struck home. How one little incident can go from bad to worse to worst.

Both these stories were on a show called "Fiasco".

Here is a link that might be useful: Squirrel Cop and Peter Pan

We get them on CBC Radio, and NPR/PRI uses quite a bit of CBC Radio stuff, as well.

ole joyful