From her home in Burbank, Aarhus-born, Peabody Award-winning Danish podcast host, director, and producer LEA THAU retraces her journey from New York to Los Angeles, first leading The Moth, the live platform for storytellers, to creating the podcast Strangers. Lea describes the gradual insertion of own self at the center of her storytelling, exemplified by the "Love Hurts" and "Lea in Trumpland" miniseries. And after a 7-year hiatus, she hints at upcoming shows of yet another kind of storytelling.

Lea selects a work by Erik Henningsen from the SMK collection.

https://open.smk.dk/en/artwork/image/KMS1454

(Photographer: Kevin Zacker)

This conversation with Christian D. Bruun occurred on December 10, 2025.

See more from Lea Thau on https://www.patreon.com/cw/leathau.

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