PRX - Pieces for Tone: Amusing
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It's a wacky selection of tunes from decades past – Todd Rundgren just wants to bang on the drum all day, the California Raisins are sweet and deli...
- Added: Apr 13, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Entirely NEW tunes today - from the likes of The Lemon Twigs, The Liverbirds, The Last Dinner Party and more. Plus, a hilarious "on-air call" from ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 59:02
A wide variety of tunes today - including a Pixar jazz standard, a Chipmunks Broadway cover, a McCartney nursery rhyme, and new indie gems by The L...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
It’s our “Best of 2023” show! With novelty and pop tunes galore and a few of the funniest on-air phone calls from the last year, plus a review of t...
- Added: Jan 05, 2024
- Length: 59:02
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
A Pulitzer Prize-winner from Neil Simon
Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KALW and more
- Added: Nov 01, 2022
- Length: 01:58:04
- Purchases: 36
Mary Jo Pehl talks about her 2022 memoir “Dumb Dumb Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews”
- Added: Oct 06, 2022
- Length: 09:38
A childhood story from Kim Weitkamp, and a reader's theater telling of Peter Pan.
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WYAP and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 6
We discuss important questions around social identity with Dr. Dominic Packer.
- Added: Dec 14, 2021
- Length: 28:45
Life in a small Texas town in the 1880 takes a little getting used to for Sam and Horace.
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 26:19
Two hapless Con Men - Sam Donovan and Horace Fletcher - bounce around rural Texas towns in the 1940's.
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 28:12
In the conclusion of our story, Sam and Horace help Minerva and Dusty hide their treasure.
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 23:56
My mom complains about some women in her community who are complaining about the fountains
- Added: Aug 14, 2021
- Length: 02:54
On this episode of the Apple Seed, we share a hilarious story about the biggest mystery in the world: What might be behind the door of the teacher'...
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 2
Tune in to today's episode for a story by Geraldine Buckley who, before she was a storyteller, worked as a chaplain in the largest men's prison in ...
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 54:59
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 55:40
- Purchases: 1
Who's replaced him? The Gen X Female. She's the boss. The's pulling the strings.
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 03:42
A group of tough men sung my father Happy Birthday well before dawn at the Bradford Store at the crossroads of Dickenson, Alabama.
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 03:40
I commit more sins in the ninety minutes before church than in the entire remainder of the week.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 24, 2019
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
I was asked to screen candidates for early admission to my alma mater. What they did, and didn't do, taught me a lot.
- Added: Sep 26, 2019
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 2
Two neighborhood kids came to my door Sunday afternoon and asked to wash my daughter's car.
Bought by KXCR
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
