Sam Manno
Host and ProducerSam Manno, that’s me! The host and producer of the Children's Corner.
It has been over thirty years since I moved to Montana with every intention of returning to Chicago when I finished graduate school, but like one of Darwin’s Finches, I found a niche.
The niche children’s programming here at Montana Public Radio, first as a guest celebrating reptiles and amphibians with Marcia, to becoming Annie’s “Girl Friday”. Over the past 15 years, with Annie in the lead, I became a co-conspirator in bringing MTPR listeners great (okay better than average) programming for kids of all ages.
As I look back on all those years, the most remarkable thing to date is that I have not lost the keys to the building!
When not in Master control, I attempt to keep a herd of dairy goats out of my neighbor’s yard with limited success, learning along the way that “a well-behaved goat is a sick goat” and “if the wind can get through a fence, so can a goat”.
I proclaim to be an artist, and pastoralist, finding peace as part of a herd of dairy goats with no intention of moving back to Chicago but maybe the rolling hills of Southern Wisconsin.
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Bill Harley returns to Montana for a week of concerts and to celebrate 50 years of Children’s Programming on Montana Public Radio. Concerts begin May 11 in locations across western Montana.
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Saddle Up! Join us Friday, December 22 at 4 p.m.on The Pea Green Boat for our yearly broadcast of Stubby Pringle’s Christmas by Jack Schaefer, brought to life for us by Richard Dunn.
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Join us on the Children’s Corner this Saturday as we conclude our reading our Home of the Brave and host a visit by #1 New York Times best selling author and Newbery Medal-winning author Katherine Applegate.
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Join us this Saturday, February 4th at 8 a.m. on the Children's Corner as we begin our reading of Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate.
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Katie Stone from The Children’s Hour will join us live on The Children’s Corner to introduce us to and share excepts from her six-part podcast, A Brief History of the American Southwest for Kids.
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The Washington Middle School String Quintet played for us on the Children’s Corner last week for a live in-studio performance. Listen now as they perform holiday classics, works by Bach and Mozart and arrangements of contemporary popular music.
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Lia Mendez, MTPR Children’s programming contributor joined Sam, program host and Dana McMurray, Children’s Librarian from the Missoula Public Library on The Pea Green Boat on Monday September 26 to shine a light on Huger Action Month with a reading of Maddi’s Fridge, written by Lois Brandt and illustrated by Vin Vogel, published by Flashlight Press.
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A conversation with Kate DiCamillo on The Children's Corner
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Dr. Kimberley Rain Miner, Earth and Climate scientist from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab will join us live on The Pea Green Boat February 2 at 4 p.m. to help us understand climate change.
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It has been over thirty years since I moved to Montana with every intention of returning to Chicago when I finished graduate school, but like one of Darwin’s Finches, I found a niche. The niche: children’s programming here at Montana Public Radio.