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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
Bears!
From: Robert Prince
Series: Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska
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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
Que sera sera
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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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: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
CHICKEN A LA STEINBECK
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
Caption: John Steinbeck, Credit: FANPIX.net
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 5
Buster Keaton rides into Carrboro, NC
From: nic beery
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Carrboro, NC celebrates the 80th birthday of Buster Keaton's classic "The General".

  • Added: Sep 27, 2007
  • Length: 05:17
B-Side: The Extraordinary Lives of Otherwise Ordinary People
From: B-Side Radio
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B-Side's Tamara Keith suits up for a game of roller hockey and brings us stories of ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 10, 2006
  • Length: 25:41
  • Purchases: 1
Aiming to Miss - The Art of Knife Throwing
From: Craig LeMoult
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Discovering the the dangerous trials and tribulations of the modern knife thrower

Bought by KUOW, WILL, and CKMO


  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
  • Length: 09:34
  • Purchases: 3
"What do you want me to tell you?"
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The interview was just a formality, but the results were highly unexpected.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:36
  • Purchases: 1
Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires
From: The Little Gray Book Lectures
Series: The Little Gray Book Lectures
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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