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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
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
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 27:53
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 25:55
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 23:32
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 26:34
When a bear is not a bear, a dead ermine is not a dead ermine, and a motivational speaker is not really a motivational speaker.
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
Philip Armand explores a mysterious black dot on his nose and his parents buy him a used motorcycle.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 08:06
People have been giving each other “the finger” since Ancient Greece. The first documented use is said to be a photograph from 1886 in which the pi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KALW
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 15:58
- Purchases: 2
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
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 29:01
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
In this week's show, a parakeet, a Spanish-language learner, and a professor help make the human voice weird again.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 3
Summer jobs, part-time employment, freelance work, gigs. There are all kinds of odd jobs out there, and these passengers have had odder ones than m...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 08:32
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
True (and humorous) story about Mark and Eric who find a stack of brand-new copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, just sitting on the sidewalk.
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 06:48
When the summer ends, Provincetown goes from being a tourist spot of 50,000 people to a quiet, small town. But, production of a new local TV series...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.
- Added: Oct 30, 2012
- Length: 18:15
