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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
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.
- Added: Jul 15, 2020
- Length: 20:30
Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 28:59
Alaskans try to make situations better, only to make them much, much worse...
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 29:00
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
Philip Armand gets repeatedly bitten by a spider and a famous artist dangles the carrot of fame.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:22
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
Champion dog musher Brent Sass gets sprayed in the face with bear spray and then nearly eaten by a bear and Bill Schnabel tries to raise pigs but c...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
We interview the only person from Alaska to make the first cut for the Mars ONE program and also speak to a scientist who thinks sending humans to ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2016
- Length: 29:01
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 09, 2015
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 1
In celebrating Hanukkah Jews tell the story of sanctified oil that miraculously burned for eight days. In this humorous piece I retell the story of...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2012
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of Happy producer JP Davidson drops into a Laughter Yoga Club. The first one started in the mid-90s in Mumbai. Now there over 8000 ...
Bought by Radio Catskill and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2012
- Length: 08:38
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Dec 14, 2011
- Length: 14:30
- Purchases: 1
The story of two boys who, in 1985, instead of going in for their dinner, decided to go on a little journey....
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Mar 05, 2011
- Length: 39:01
- Purchases: 3
A gentle parody of the public radio show "This American Life," using the James Stewart Christmas chestnut "It's a Wonderful Life" as a weapon.
Bought by KMXT, KZYX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, Raven Radio, KVNF and more
- Added: Dec 15, 2009
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 12
Does a magical place exist where you can get paid to climb?
- Added: Apr 29, 2008
- Length: 25:00
Carrboro, NC celebrates the 80th birthday of Buster Keaton's classic "The General".
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 05:17
- Added: Aug 24, 2007
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:03
- Purchases: 1
David Kates spent a few hours at Los Angeles' Original Pantry Cafe to soak up the sights, sounds and smells.
- Added: Jun 14, 2007
- Length: 03:49
Salon regular and Emmy winning writer Joseph Dougherty discovers an unnoticed gift in a crowded train station.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2006
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 1
