PRX - Pieces for Tone: Humorous
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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
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
- Added: Sep 29, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Frank Guptill written and presented by Clark Moore
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 05:41
"I was a drug smuggler for love, I was a drug smuggler for my mom."
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 09:05
- Purchases: 2
An American father and young son spend a year living as expats in Asia, where they soon discover just the simple act of eating provides daily chal...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 14:29
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
Roadtrip! Our writers take us on various adventures, beginning with Jackie Manning in a European railway station. Phillip Taylor travels across the...
- Added: Jul 20, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- 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
The eX Files ? stories of gay divorce.
- Added: Jan 12, 2005
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 4
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...
Bought by KUOW, Wisconsin Public Radio, KPCC, East Village Radio, WUAL and more
- Added: Mar 16, 2004
- Length: 11:06
- Purchases: 6
It is the story of the brain aneurysm that almost killed my mother in 1987 and how she became a completely different person from the mother of my c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT and more
- Added: Mar 12, 2004
- Length: 19:59
- Purchases: 10
Two elderly sisters, who are not twins, dress exactly the same, eat all the same food, and go everywhere together.
Bought by WJCT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser) and more
- Added: Nov 05, 2003
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 9
A teenage babysitter convinces his younger siblings that he's a werewolf who's going to kill them.
- Added: Nov 04, 2003
- Length: 14:02
- Purchases: 2
