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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 childhood story from Kim Weitkamp, and a reader's theater telling of Peter Pan.
Bought by KSJE, KKRN, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WYAP and more
- Added: Sep 14, 2022
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 6
On this episode of the Apple Seed, we share a hilarious story about the biggest mystery in the world: What might be behind the door of the teacher'...
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 54:58
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
How standup comedians and venues in New York City are coping and adapting to comedy in quarantine without their audiences.
- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 03:40
A group of tough men sung my father Happy Birthday well before dawn at the Bradford Store at the crossroads of Dickenson, Alabama.
- Added: Jan 17, 2020
- Length: 03:40
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
A collaborative "Short List" poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2019
- Length: :47
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 03, 2018
- Length: 08:21
- Purchases: 1
Many StoryCorps conversations touch on love, work, and death. But when Lynne Houston and her husband, Greg, sat down for their interview, they cove...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 2
Ten-year-old triplets Maddy, Zoë, and Nick Waters have spent their entire lives together, sharing everything from a birthday to a bedroom. But desp...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades produces a sound that draws on the vaults of music collect...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
Jan sees every film that comes to Columbia, MO's arthouse cinema. Sometimes she'll see a film five or even ten times. Andrew Leland investigates wh...
Bought by HowSound
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 1
It's time again for a sampling from the Barre and Montpelier police logs, as reported in the Times Argus, and read by Scott Carrier. This month the...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
Country classics and Opry favorites featuring Big Top's Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
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
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Having collaborated with one another for two decades, Rusted Root, has honed the perfect combination of musical intuition, freedom and virtuosity, ...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ and more
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Off-Ramp contributor Collin Friesen takes a humorour look at the differences between Canadian Thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving.
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 04:38
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
