Ernest Marriner

The Marriner Little Talks Collection comprises radio scripts and audio recordings related to Ernest Marriner’s “Little Talks on Common Things,” a long-running and very popular weekly broadcast series commenced in 1948. The Colbiana Collection contains 197 audiotapes containing “Little Talks” programs dated from 1972 to 1982. The programs relate to local (Waterville), Colby and Maine history. Much of Marriner’s research for the programs used materials in the college archives. The Little Talks WordPress site contains the entire run of radio scripts as well as 23 digitized recordings.