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Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5

From: Charles McGuigan

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...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3

From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand

Sammy Marques, descended from Portuguese seamen, was expatriated from his native America by his missionary father. When he returned stateside he ma...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4

From: Charles McGuigan

Sammy Marques is a raconteur. He frequently draws on personal experience to flesh out stories that seem always to embrace some humorous element. Th...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2

From: Charles McGuigan

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...

Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around

From: Charles McGuigan

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 ...

The Big Ponder #24: Happiness

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

How do you quantify something as indescribable as happiness? Michael Hobbes searches for a way to measure life satisfaction that works in both the ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Ponder #22: Candy

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut

As a kid, candy makes the world go round. As an adult, it has the power to bring back long-forgotten childhood memories. Carol McKinley talks about...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Ponder #15: Record Booth

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

By the 1920s, people had begun using coin-operated record booths to create audio souvenirs — immortalizing their thoughts and feelings on a disc. C...

Bought by HowSound and KICI Iowa City

Seeking and Blundering – The Discovery of Penicillin

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)

This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!

Rediscovered Radio: WYSO’s Lost Tapes

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)

Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Cash Gart: The Songs of Sniagrab

From: Matthew Simonson

Caption: A Sniagrab sale, from above, Credit: The Gart Family Archive

A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.

Re:sound - The Big Show Show

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2020 Re:sound Specials from Third Coast

This hour: the Rockettes, the opera, congress, and other spectacles.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KOSU, KCPW Salt Lake City, Troy Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more

The Big Pond #45: The Passion of Chris Strachwitz

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Chris Strachwitz is a man possessed. A “songcatcher,” capturing and recording the traditional, regional, down-home music of the US, his adopted hom...

Bought by WDCB, KICI Iowa City, WNYO, and KWMR

The Big Pond #44: Germans in New Orleans

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Historically, New Orleans is a cultural, spiritual and ethnic melting pot. In the streets, you immediately come across signs of French, Caribbean, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and WNYO

The Big Pond #29: Dieter Kosslick’s Last Red Carpet Ride

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Dieter Kosslick is one of the film world’s best known festival directors. He’s put his stamp on the Berlin International Film Festival for the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR

The Big Pond #32: Getting to Know the Gateau

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Although it’s not certain who first wrote the recipe, the Black Forest cake has been fully embraced by the Black Forest community as an essential a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #21: What’s a Sister City Really?

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

In the historic city of Magdeburg, Germany, there is a Johnny Cash themed country music festival called Nashville Days – complete with corndogs and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #20: Hessian Barracks in Maryland

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

It is estimated that 30,000 Hessian soldiers fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Where did they come from and...

The Big Pond #19: German Bread – A Nourishing Craft

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Germany is internationally renowned for its bread. With its diversity of more than 3,000 varieties the Germans are world champions of bread. Since ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #18: German-Texan Heritage Societies

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

The Big Pond #13: German-style Wines in the US

From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast

German entrepreneurs and winemakers have shaped the manufacturing of wine in the US for over a century. Join our producer Gary Lee on a tour of thr...

Milk, Honey and Sweet Mary Jane

From: Israel Story

Cannabis in Israel is a booming business, and through the unlikely story of Amos Silver, the Israeli 'Green Giant,' we take a deep dive into the wo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.