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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
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 10:47
- Purchases: 1
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 52:04
Escape with us to a simpler place and time. Before COVID, before monkeypox, before traveling got so fraught. To a town promoters claimed then was e...
Bought by WORT
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
Celebrating one of the founders of Rock ‘n Roll, Richard Penniman, better known as Little Richard with a mix of his music, interviews, covers and ...
Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, and KHNS
- Added: May 17, 2020
- Length: 59:33
- Purchases: 3
CATALINA ISLAND, CA—Meet the Meals on Wheels Volunteer who makes sure people in need get fed all over the small island of the coast of Long Beach, ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2020
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
When is it true love or unhinged obsession? Find out in this tongue in cheek guide to adolescent love that lets you know when you've become way to...
- Added: May 06, 2018
- Length: 24:12
Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 28:59
Just like a real-life Zach Morris, a teenager in the 90's writes his own episode of Saved By The Bell and tries to get it on the air. Listen to th...
- Added: Feb 11, 2018
- Length: 20:07
In this first episode, I talk with tournament officials and competitive gamers about a local gaming regional called All or Nothing Gaming (AON). I ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 14:40
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
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
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
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2015
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 3
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was a kid. She told me some weird stuff about the imminent end of the world.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 04:19
The first official episode of Rendered (formerly Destination DIY) documents the unprecedented love Portlanders have for their airport carpet.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1