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
After years of languishing at the far end of the soda aisle, TaB has at last fallen victim to a decision by its parent company, Coca-Cola, to end p...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 11:50
- 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
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
Episode 26: It’s celebration time! Houda got her driver’s license!
Last September, Melanie started teaching Houda how to drive–the first woman in h...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:15
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona has the largest collection of petrified wood in the world. The beautiful wood is more than 200 millio...
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 20:17
Madison never worried about the why, the 10 year-old? ...
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 01:35
Sam recently performed this excerpt from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show--and it sounded like THIS.
- Added: Jun 05, 2012
- Length: 11:53
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 15:07
Manohar, from Agra, and Vera, from Sao Paulo, meet on a mysterious bus when a lady falls on M. The rest is slight distrust and love.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 17, 2012
- Length: 09:30
- Purchases: 1
The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Mar 05, 2011
- Length: 39:01
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 01:15
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: :37
- Purchases: 1
Jason Mehl tells the story of his meeting with a drunken Santa.
- Added: Oct 11, 2009
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 2
When someone's life end's, another person's job begins...
- Added: Jun 29, 2009
- Length: 01:00:16
One girl's quest for coolness despite her hippie father's mortifying behavior.
- Added: Apr 21, 2008
- Length: 10:42
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 1
An absurd moment with her earnest, younger self as seen through the objective eyes of middle age.
- Added: Apr 24, 2007
- Length: 04:02
Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2006
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
Shirley Scott recalls the nightmare of uniformity imposed by "Mother-Daughter" matching outfits.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 19, 2006
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
