The Moth Radio Hour
London Calling — with Crossfire, and a Vampire
Author Neil Gaiman explains why he's afraid to sing in public, a tourist gets a scare in London's Highgate Cemetery, a Nigerian man tells a bold truth on live TV and Christina Lamb talks about her double life as a mother and war correspondent.
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Author Neil Gaiman (pictured) details his punk rock beginnings and how his wife finally got him to sing on stage again. Tourist Matt Day visits a famous cemetery in London and meets a homeless man who masquerades as a vampire. Bisi Alimi loses his best friend to AIDS and in his honor decides to speak out publicly about his own diagnosis. And Christina Lamb, a war correspondent under fire in Afghanistan, talks about dodging bullets and being a mother. Hosted by The Moth's Producing Director, Sarah Austin Jenness.
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