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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Steve Moore
He left the East Coast for the West Coast to become an actor. Instead he became a comedian. And just as his career was taking off, he was diagnosed...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 26:34
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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
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Two stories of being trapped by yourself in the Alaskan wilderness.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Over the Back Fence is a community variety show that takes place the 2nd Friday of every month from March through November, with a different theme ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:30:57
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Over the Back Fence is a community variety show that takes place the 2nd Friday of every month from March through November, with a different theme ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:24:57
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Keeping Me Humble is a podcast about the tough things in life...the stuff that keeps us humble. Today...stories of disappointment. Violinist Andrew...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 16:19
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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


  • Added: Feb 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Tales of failed love and rejection with comic Ivan Decker and life coach Edel Walsh. Host Steven Chua asks an old flame to critique his romancing s...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 16:20
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I was hired in 1974 to help Ginger Rogers learn her lines for the opening of “Forty Carats,” at the Drury Lane East Theatre in Chicago. And that’s...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 16:55
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When the summer ends, Provincetown goes from being a tourist spot of 50,000 people to a quiet, small town. But, production of a new local TV series...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Manohar and Vera, Credit: Kathryn Munger
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
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A group of drunken Brits guides Sam directly into the path of an oncoming MTA bus, with unexpected results. This episode is an excerpt from the li...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 06:34
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This episode we speak with percussionist extraordinaire, Gordon Gottlieb. He is a world class multi-instrumentalist, and can play literally hundred...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Join us as we speak with fabulous violinist Abe Appleman. Besides a love of chamber music, his main gig is playing with the first fiddles in the Or...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 24, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Hooray episode twenty-two has arrived at your computation machine’s receiving area! I think it’s a good show, I hope you like it. We speak with stu...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2010
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sarah Haskins at The Paper Machete, Ricochet's Tavern, Chicago, 8/14/2010, Credit: Kurt Heintz
Sarah Haskins (comedienne, Infomania's "Target Women" series) discusses how pregnancy has inspired her to prepare for the end of the world. Recorde...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 09:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Join us for a discussion of a stage actor’s life with Bob Bowles. He started in the early days of TV but couldn’t shake his (or his wife’s) love of...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1