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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
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
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
Animals love each other too.
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
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
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
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
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
Interview and commentary with Mark Benson, who's been playing John Lennon in the Beatles tribute band 1964 for nearly three decades.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 2
The volunteer driven arts group, Avon Area Arts, has been steadily growing since its inception only about three years ago and has brought vibrancy ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 27:14
Humorous Social Commentary and Music from 1930s 1940s
- Added: Mar 01, 2010
- Length: 59:00
Humorous Social Commentary and music from 1930s, 1940s
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 59:00
Humorous social commentary and music from the 1930s, 1940s
- Added: Feb 21, 2010
- Length: 59:00
Humorous social commentary and music from the 1920s and 1930s.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 59:00
Old fashioned music and humorous social commentary
- Added: Feb 18, 2009
- Length: 59:00
Old fashioned music and humorous social commentary
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 59:00
Old fashioned music and humorous social commentary
- Added: Dec 07, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Jun 19, 2008
- Length: 10:37
- Purchases: 1
Carrboro, NC celebrates the 80th birthday of Buster Keaton's classic "The General".
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 05:17
Lectures by Paul Tough and Starlee Kine, walkie-talkie banter and a song about NY ME host Soterios Johnson
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, WBEZ, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Feb 21, 2005
- Length: 57:27
- Purchases: 4
Single commuters use mass transit for mass flirting
- Added: Sep 24, 2004
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 2
