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John LaFratta is a defense attorney in both civil and criminal cases. Over the years he has represented clients charged with every conceivable crim...
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 27:47
John and Annie Glenn's life story is one small step for a man and one giant leap for love!
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 14:53
Kimberly had talked about her house as if it was a person, her best friend as she put it. Stephanie saw her house as a metaphor for her life, falli...
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 24:53
Sammy Marques tells stories, one-man-shows that last an hour and more. The stories within the bigger stories are chapters of his life. Because they...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 25:28
Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:56
Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 27:30
For three generations, Sammy Marques’ family was stuck in a sort of revolving door of emigration from Europe to the United States and back again. I...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Sammy Marques has been a lot of things over the years. He was never a butcher, but he was certainly a baker. Twice. And armed with a wood lathe he ...
- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 26:21
We continue with the stories of five brave women—Terry Menefee Gau, Melissa Gray, Kathi Shiff, Mary Carpenter and Didi Tremblay—who like so many ot...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 27:31
Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
“Everything can change just like that.” That’s what Jane says. But there is no snap of fingers. This is the preamble to a story she’s retold a hun...
- Added: Mar 13, 2021
- Length: 27:43
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
Aurora has finally found a stable home, after 14 years, at the Beloved Community Village, a tiny home colony for people experiencing homelessness i...
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 17:12
After seeing ads for home DNA tests on TV, John decided to give it a try. Just spit into a cup—what did he have to lose… or gain?
- Added: Jul 22, 2019
- Length: 13:23
A tribute to the science fiction american old-time radio series, combined with an intriguing testimony of a woman that suspects that an alien race ...
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- Added: Aug 04, 2018
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
There has never been a better time to visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood and this mix reminds of his mission with clips from the new documentary "Won...
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- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 01:57:55
- Purchases: 1
this is the conclusion of 2828 Story of a House. It’s about a man named Leroy Basham who hoarded for several decades, and the people who dug throug...
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 22:09
2828: Story of a House is about hoarding, and two people who can make order of chaos and find treasure in trash. It's also about a man whose life w...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 26:05
As many as 5,000 Nepali people have made their way to Akron during the last decade. It’s been a dramatic change for people who had held onto their ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 28:59
Stories of men battling white water rapids and floods in Alaska.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Find out why you should never mess with Maria. The diaries of a rebellious Jersey Girl growing up in the 80s. The Mortified Podcast is a proud memb...
- Added: Aug 20, 2017
- Length: 25:08
Two generations of law enforcement recount the rewards and hardships of living in uniform.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 14:11
America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...
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- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
Just as America is a nation of immigrants, Virginia is a commonwealth of immigrants. For the first time ever the state Department of Historic Res...
- Added: May 22, 2017
- Length: 08:45