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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
How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home?
How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 37:21
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
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
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
Steve Moore is a slight man, drawn somewhat by the disease he lives with. I’d put him at about 140 pounds. But that might be a little much. Steve’s...
- Added: Nov 25, 2016
- Length: 26:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
When a neighborhood newspaper folds, the publisher creates a unique ritual to mark its passing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:42
- Added: Aug 27, 2010
- Length: 07:55
- Purchases: 1
When Ryan's date looked nothing like her online profile, he wasn't surprised.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 11:28
- Purchases: 3
Does a magical place exist where you can get paid to climb?
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 25:00
Photographer Corey Rich tells us his favorite stories behind his photographs
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 25:42
- Added: Oct 02, 2007
- Length: 12:20
- Purchases: 2
A Yankee learns how to bowl frozen turkeys at Nascar
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2007
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 2
Drug use and attempted suicide. Hey, they're serious. Really. No, honest. Ask storyteller Marti MacGibbon.
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 03:41
Bill Sperling warns against life in a big law firm.
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 03:28
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...
Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2004
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 6
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT and more
- Added: Mar 12, 2004
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 10
