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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
In April of 2022, Haley took a bold step and decided to quit her job; a job as a public radio host and a job she loved. As she tried to make sense ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 15, 2023
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 16, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on Culture Clique we bring you the first in a two-part series on a Minnesota music venue that is truly a hidden gem, The Oak Center General S...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 29:20
- Purchases: 1
Despite the cliché of the unfunny German, there is a rich tradition of comedy in German culture. Soraya Nelson visits comedy clubs in Berlin and in...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 27:41
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Jul 15, 2021
- Length: 28:54
- Purchases: 2
Tonight we bring you strange & terrible tales from Wonder Valley, California: the very edge of Southern California civilization, last outpost of hu...
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 01:00:00
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
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 27:06
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
The RDD meets the the TIFF (that's the Toledo International Film Festival) on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries. The Tiff is an annua...
- Added: Nov 12, 2018
- Length: 06:08
A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Animals love each other too.
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
Artificial General Intelligence Being wakes up only to discover something is missing.
- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 35:02
Archeologist Adelaide Bullen written and presented by Anita Palladino.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 06:01
Poor young New York couple wrestle with buying each other secret Christmas gifts. First published on Dec 10 1905.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 19:29
- Purchases: 1
Business travel can be exhilarating unless you have a ghost phobia.
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 12:36
Biocontrol feels like the pinnacle of human arrogance. We’re trying to play God, taking a delicately balanced ecosystem and stomping all over it w...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
College girl goes wild and learns important lesson along the way.
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 11:16
Michael Kearney is a genius — he holds the Guinness World Record for being the youngest person to graduate from college, at age 10. Now he's 32, an...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Marfa Public Radio, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 17:44
- Purchases: 4
This episode explores bites. The good and the bad, the Arachnid the Annelid, and the Diptera. How dangerous is the widow spider bite? Do we still u...
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 36:39
- Purchases: 1
Star-struck teen gets swept up in the whirlwind of sun-baked celebrity | Put down your beans and cornbread, pilgrim, and get ready for the latest e...
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 10:23
