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How Craigslist's 'Missed Connections' is humanity’s story
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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In this week's episode of Audacious, hear stories from Craigslist’s 'Missed Connections,' including what a researcher learned from studying over 10...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
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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: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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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: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
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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
Sammy Marques: What Goes Around Comes Around Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
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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: What Goes Around Comes Around
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Sammy Marques
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
2252: The Polar Express & Big Fish, 12/29/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s episode of On Story, we bring you The Polar Express & Big Fish two classic films adapted from popular books which were seemingly una...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
The Apple Seed - Bill Harley + Original Musical Audio Drama in the Old West
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about music and friendship.

Bought by KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KTXK, KSJE and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
The Apple Seed - Kim Weitkamp + Scenes from 'Peter Pan'
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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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
The Apple Seed - Bil Lepp, Mark Twain & Pranks
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories about Pranks, Hoaxes, and General Mischief

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, WVPE, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 4
Jenner By The Sea & Beyond
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR
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WONDERLAND RADIO HOUR is a series of free public programs featuring stories about the people, places and history of our lower Russian River communi...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Apple Seed - The Crane Wife
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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One of the greatest joys in this life is the joy of our relationships. In today’s stories, you'll hear a Japanese story from Donald Davis about a m...

Bought by KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, and KKRN


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Monkey King and Inky Pinky
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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"The Monkey King" features a story about an emperor of the south gate to heaven creates a monkey from a magical stone. Then listen to fun stories c...

Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 2
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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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
Episode 1
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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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
Episode 4
From: Greg Dorchak
Series: GOLD DUST
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In the conclusion of our story, Sam and Horace help Minerva and Dusty hide their treasure.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 23:56
The Apple Seed - Thanksgiving with the Apple Seed 2021
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A special episode of The Apple Seed that will help you celebrate Thanksgiving. We’ll share stories of things we’re thankful for, stories about grea...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, KTNA, KKRN, WVPE, WJCT and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2021
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 13
The Apple Seed - It's Tricky
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Who's the Slavic folk character who lives in a house on top of giant chicken legs? Well, it's Baba Yaga. This story is told by the great storytelle...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WVPE


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 5
The Apple Seed - The Teacher's Lounge
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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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'...

Bought by KKRN and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - Tea in the Slammer
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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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 ...

Bought by WCNY, KTXK, and KKRN


  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Apple Seed - The Old Apple Tree
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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This episode of The Apple Seed features stories about a lot of different questions, and answers. We'll hear from Bill Harley, Mary Grace Ketner, an...

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 4 - Dragon Games
From: Dirt Road Theater
Series: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Caption: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
The knights of Durga host a great competition. Anyone can compete to become the champion of Beatrice, a mother dragon, on her quest to confront the...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 36:14
Episode 3 - Durga, City of the Knights
From: Dirt Road Theater
Series: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Caption: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Beatrice enters the renowned city of Durga, home of the Knights. When she arrives she encounters a large crowd. It appears they were expecting her....

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 32:22
Episode 2 - Team Up
From: Dirt Road Theater
Series: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Caption: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Petra, Azrael, Lyle, Edwine, and Smudge, Five young dragons, have encountered a human. Not just any human. Talora Shamsa, a knight in training from...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 31:09
Episode 1 - The Egg
From: Dirt Road Theater
Series: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
Caption: Fairies and Dragons, Ponies and Knights
In the beginning everyone was nice. But over time, so slowly that no one could say when, or how, or why it started, the Fairies and the Ponies got....

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 31:01