EPISODE · Jul 6, 2018 · 53 MIN
Tessa Fontaine, Moses Storm, Abdi Nor Iftin, and Laura Veirs
from Live Wire with Luke Burbank · host PRX
Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello relive their “great escapes;” writer Tessa Fontaine explains how learning to eat fire as a part of America's last traveling sideshow helped mend her broken heart; comedian and actor Moses Storm riffs on a childhood spent living in a bus with his missionary family; memoirist and visa lottery winner Abdi Nor Iftin recounts his journey from war-torn Somalia to rural Maine; and singer-songwriter Laura Veirs performs the T.S. Eliot-inspired “Margaret Sands” from her latest album “The Lookout.”
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Tessa Fontaine, Moses Storm, Abdi Nor Iftin, and Laura Veirs
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