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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
Too hot, too cold, just right. Americans may differ on where to set the dial, but they agree air conditioning is integral to modern life, a phenome...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 04:34
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
It's springtime and Earth Day! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are five stories to help you get outside ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 27:30
- Purchases: 1
Josh Patterson loved taking photographs of rare finds in the Mojave Desert. But on one trip, things didn’t go as planned.
- Added: Oct 08, 2019
- Length: 16:28
- Purchases: 2
Animals love each other too.
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
"Time Bomb"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Brian Corliss just wanted to quench his thirst. But on a snowmobile outing, he grab...
Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
"Up A River, Without… A Pigeon?" and "Bigfoot"
A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Charlie Thomas worked as a whitewater rafting gu...
Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 08, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
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
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
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and GraceRadio
- Added: Nov 02, 2014
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 2
A WWII Veteran's story of mishaps and machinery
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:48
Audio essay bringing the current summer-long Market Basket situation back to the basics.
- Added: Aug 28, 2014
- Length: 04:34
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
From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 2
