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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
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 28:59
Alaskans try to make situations better, only to make them much, much worse...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Michael Kearney is a genius — he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to graduate from college, at age 10. Now he's 32, an...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Marfa Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 17:44
- Purchases: 4
Philip Armand tries to figure out the correlation between commitment and risk-taking and discovers Einstein's mistakes, and what they mean for his ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:54
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Philip Armand grapples with commitment, then spends an afternoon watching the TV show Friends with a group of Kurdish Freedom Fighters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 09:11
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947, left his regular route in the Bronx, and drove his municipal ...
Bought by American Voices, KPIK-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 17:37
- Purchases: 4
A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 17:38
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 4
The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the tiny community of Indian Pass in the Florida panhandle. It’s an institution in this part of the world ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 4
Since retiring as the original Philie Phanatic, Dave Raymond makes his living training professional mascot performers and creating new mascot ident...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 23:31
In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...
Bought by Radio Catskill and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 08:38
- Purchases: 2
A group of 4th and 5th graders prove themselves on the basketball court. On unicycles.
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 22:46
- Purchases: 2
