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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
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 52:04
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Problem with a bear in your neighborhood? This is the guy who gets the call.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
Laughter is the key to everything. You can give yourself an orgasm, but you can’t tickle yourself.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 04:07
- Purchases: 1
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...
Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 10:32
- Purchases: 3
In this episode of "Street Economy," radio producers Kelley Crawford and Sarah Holtz go to the streets in search of poetry -- literal poetry, not a...
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:21
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
Dubi Ayalon, a retired IDF lieutenant-colonel, traded a life as a school principal in Israel for a life of raising and miking water buffalo in rura...
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 17:03
McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California, during the student riots. After being rejected 72 times by labels, the ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 11
- Added: Oct 23, 2014
- Length: 01:17
- Purchases: 1
Comedian Carlos Mencia is notorious for stealing other comics’ jokes. But he’s never been sued—in fact, there are almost no lawsuits in comedy. On ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 18:43
- Purchases: 2
A piece exploring the Young People's Theatre Project's summer theater production, which brings 6th-12th graders into the wilderness to produce a mu...
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 17:38
Pumpkins are baked into pies, turned into soup, and carved into jack-o-lanterns. But there's another use for these autumnal gourds - they're the ke...
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 05:10
Episode 12 - Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill ...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 51:58
One of the highlights of Knoxville’s International Biscuit Festival is the Mr. & Miss Biscuit Pageant. This piece profiles Liz Barr, the reigning M...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 4
The Indian Pass Raw Bar is the anchor of the tiny community of Indian Pass in the Florida panhandle. It’s an institution in this part of the world ...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 4
By day, Alberto Denis is a quiet, unassuming man who dances professionally and works with computers. By night, he transforms into his alter-ego, Go...
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 04:28
