PRX - Pieces for Tone: This American Life-esque
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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
It takes a whiffle ball, a 16” x 8” racquet that is bigger than a ping pong paddle but smaller than a tennis racket. You can actually convert one t...
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 10:01
Sure are a lot of mostly abandoned churches out here in the California desert. A lot of good community real estate. How do you take over churches? ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 21, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Dark Winter Nights Executive Producer Ryan Peterson tells the wild story of how he found his birth parents.
- Added: Sep 23, 2021
- Length: 29:00
How can breaking bread—or injera—together make a place home?
How one kitchen disaster led the team at Shelter in Place podcast through the Eritrea...
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 37:21
Page Wilson was a singer and a song writer and host of the most popular music show in Richmond, Virginia. Called the Out of the Blue Radio Revue, i...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 27:53
Page Wilson ten years ago this month, and the Richmond music scene will never be quite the same. Page was a player and host of the most popular “re...
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 25:55
Muyambi loved biking, so when his friends asked him to plan a cycling trip across his home country of Uganda he was thrilled. But challenges arose ...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 11, 2020
- Length: 13:01
- Purchases: 2
Jeff Osgood and his friend Anthony just wanted to go on a winter hiking trip in the Adirondack Wilderness in upstate New York. But after a series o...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 21:20
- Purchases: 1
It’s spring! Animals are on the move, and sometimes their paths cross with people. Here are four stories.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 37:09
Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 06, 2019
- Length: 19:17
- Purchases: 1
Have your listening audience enjoy Presidents Day with a fun musicial experience.
Bought by KMXT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KMXT
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 01:01:02
- Purchases: 3
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
Marty Edwards wanted to go on a fun trip with his girlfriend. But Mother Nature had other plans.
- Added: Nov 14, 2018
- Length: 32:00
A renegade California group creates pop-up swings throughout the city.
- Added: Aug 26, 2018
- Length: 02:30
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29
Brian Corliss just wanted to quench his thirst. But on a snowmobile outing, he grabbed the wrong bottle. *Disclaimer: The actions taken in this sto...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 20:33
- Purchases: 2
There comes a moment in every school kid's life where it’s time where the student becomes the teacher. The Mortified Podcast celebrates kids who at...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 29:59
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This is the first episode in a three-part summer series, called Science Camp, where we’re exploring the human side of science. Ryan Haupt had a lot...
Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSFR, PRX Remix, and KRZA
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 24:03
- Purchases: 4
In “Palm Treo”, Brittany and Eric talk about the secret parties that the RA’s at Howard University were throwing in 2005. Their podcast “For Colore...
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 23:32
