Storytellers achieve their improvisation and creativity to the test by making up unique stories to correspond to our summer sounds medley,created using listener-submitted sounds of summer.
Here's the audio medley they were assigned to employ, as a sound bed:And the storytellers:Elizabeth Gilbert: author of Eat, or Pray,Love and Big Magic.
Jim O’Grady: a features reporter at WNYC. He’s told stories on This American Life, Studio 360, and The Moth.
Peter Aguero: a storyteller,Moth StorySLAM host and GrandSLAM champion. He also leads the MothSHOP Community Education Program.
And Brian Lehrer, with a special long-form story.
Click below to hear Brian perform a long-form essay, or weaving together stories and sounds submitted by listeners approximately the Summer of 2015.
Source: wnyc.org