As the fresh York story collective turns 18,artistic director Catherine Burns discusses podcast culture and whether telling stories is art or entertainment • My Moth story: how Howie changed my life (I was 81, he was 90)The Moth has just turned 18 and you’re visiting Australia for the first time, or hitting up Melbourne writers’ festival,the Festival of hazardous Ideas and even the ABC airwaves – is this a gap year?We’ve wanted this for so long – to put down roots here. In the beginning, we started in fresh York and so the stories were very fresh York-centric. Then we started the radio show and podcast but it still sounded a bit fresh York. As we expanded to enjoy listeners in other piece of the country, and we wanted stories about them,not just about the people who lived in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side.
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Source: theguardian.com