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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
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 26:59
A tribute to the science fiction american old-time radio series, combined with an intriguing testimony of a woman that suspects that an alien race ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 04, 2018
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
Today’s show is called Prelude to Summer. We end up on a parking lot late at night on the first day of summer, sprawled out on sleeping bags and lo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 22:10
The Mummers Day Parade is as quintessentially South Philadelphia as Ben Franklin or Willy Penn, a Philly cheese steak or Italian water ice.
It’s u...
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:35
You leave the radio on for your pet, before you leave the apartment. We'll find out if the cat and dog wish you hadn't.
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 13:41
- Purchases: 4
How did a nice girl with a degree from Princeton University end up as a globetrotting... clown? Meet Christina Gelsone -- and her husband, Seth. Th...
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 08:37
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
In which David Pressman goes to war, suffers the consequences, and comes home to direct a hit play.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 26, 2010
- Length: 08:31
- Purchases: 1
This is a feature story documenting the performers and organizers of the 30th annual Skaneateles, NY chamber music festival.
- Added: Feb 23, 2010
- Length: 07:29
Funtown/Splashtown USA is the largest family-run amusement park in the Northeast. Half a million people visit the park in Saco, Maine every summer.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
In Maine, there are two organized naturist, or nudist clubs: the Dirigo Naturist Association and the Maine Coast Solar Bares.
Bought by WMPG and WORLDcompass.org
- Added: Jan 06, 2010
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 2
Inside and outside the wrestling ring, Keith Dinsmore gets knocked down and back up, again and again.
- Added: Dec 18, 2006
- Length: 05:04
Jim guides us through his personel journey, into a world few of us will ever know.
- Added: Jul 31, 2004
- Length: 20:09
The fair is bright and nice and happy, and then the sun goes down....
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUOW, WNIJ, WBEZ, WZBC and more
- Added: May 04, 2004
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 7
