creator profile
Sam Payne

Sam Payne is a national and international musician and storyteller. He hosts The Apple Seed, the long-running BYUradio podcast featuring stories for families and was part of the Peabody-nominated team that created Treasure Island 2020, the serial podcast based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel. As a live performer, Sam has brought his stories and songs to halls in Canada, Bulgaria, Tokyo, and from coast to coast in the United States, including performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the nation’s capital, the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee and the Timpanogos Storytelling festival in Lehi, Utah. Sam serves as the Weber State University Storytelling Fellow and has written books and stage pieces including Sanctuary: The Story of Zion for the centennial of the National Parks Service, Echoes of Hammers and Spikes (With Suzanne Christensen) for the sesquicentennial of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, and One of a Million Stars, commemorating the 14-year mission of the Mars rover Opportunity.
Their Episodes

Today we're studying D&C 63:34 in just one minute! Grab your scriptures and let's dive into them tog...

The 1952s are interrogated by the military as Olympus Dale is overwhelmed by strange phenomena, as well...

Bill Harley tells the tale of an unhappy king and his search to find happiness in the most unexpected...

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Charlotte Blake Alston tells the story of a father and four sons, and how no one is ever gone as long...

When author Lynn Faust faced the loss of her beloved Smoky Mountains cabin, she began to notice the synchronous...
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