Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
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Selections from the WFMT collection of Terkel’s radio interviews, delivered several times each week. An unofficial feed.
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Discussing the book "Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship and Triumph" with the author Ben Joravsky
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May 03, 2024 |
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Discussing the struggle for democratic rule in South Africa with President of the African National Congress and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Zulu Chief Albert John Luthuli
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Henry Fonda and John Houseman discuss the play "Clarence Darrow"
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh : part 1
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh ; part 2
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Interview in Montgomery, Alabama
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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French humorist Jacques Tati talks with Studs Terkel
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Excerpts from the Division Street recordings Oral Histories, regarding race, religion and humanity
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Edward Albee discusses the arts and the meaning of plays
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti discusses his poetry
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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Allen Ginsberg discusses poetry and meditation
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Chicago residents Alice and Bob Taylor talk with Studs Terkel
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Discussing and reading from the book "Shoeless Joe"with W. P. Kinsella
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Discussing the book "Maus: Survivor's Tale" with the artist and author Art Spiegelman
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Discussing the triple revolution with Bayard Rustin, W. H. Ferry and Ralph Helstein ; part 1
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Discussing the triple revolution with Bayard Rustin, W. H. Ferry and Ralph Helstein ; part 2
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Dick Gregory discusses his career
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Bill Ayers discussing education and Ayers's book "To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher"
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Wynton Marsalis discusses his musical upbringing
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Studs Terkel discusses adults with young adults
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Leonard Bernstein discusses his career, music, and education
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Anita O'Day discusses her career
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Discussing the book "Hocus Pocus" with the author, novelist Kurt Vonnegut
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Gloria Steinem discusses the 10th anniversary of "Ms." magazine
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Odetta talks about her music career with Studs Terkel
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Ralph Nader discusses his book "Unsafe at Any Speed"
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Studs, teachers and students have a conversation at a high school where there is controversy over the use of the book "Working"
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb, and Courtland Cox discuss the SNCC ; part 1
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb, and Courtland Cox discuss the SNCC ; part 2
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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John Malkovich and Gary Sinise discuss the film "Of Mice and Men"
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Interviewing Francois Truffaut director of "400 Blows"
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Barrett Deems discusses jazz drumming
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Actress Tallulah Bankhead discusses her career
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her book "Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class"
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Discussing the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business," with the author, culture and communications scholar Neil Postman
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Charles Eames discusses his life of travel and his study of design and architecture, part 1
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Charles Eames discusses his life of travel and his study of design and architecture, part 2
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Charles Mingus discusses his book "Beneath The Underdog"
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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David Halberstam discusses Bobby Kennedy
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Studs Terkel interviews Tom Wolfe ; part 1
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Studs Terkel interviews Tom Wolfe ; part 2
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Parents of school children talk about integration and busing
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Oliver W. Sacks discusses his patients from the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"; part 2
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Interviewing Ralph Ellison ; part 1
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Interviewing Ralph Ellison ; part 2
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Mr Bugliosi and Mr. Gentry discuss, "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders"
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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London taxi driver discusses changes in London and speaks about present-day youth culture ; part 1
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Louis Armstrong discusses music
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Marshall McLuhan discusses a wide range of philosophical topics
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Rita Moreno discusses her role in West Side Story ; part 1
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Rita Moreno discusses her role in West Side Story ; part 2
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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Robert Caro reads from and discusses his book "The Years of Lyndon Johnson"
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Ian McKellan discusses National Theatre of Great Britain's performance of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" at the Blackstone Theatre in Chicago
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Interview with members of the Chicago 8
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Interviewing Howard Zinn ; part 1
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Interviewing Howard Zinn ; part 2
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Woody Allen discusses his work as a comedic writer and performer
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Terkel reads from "The Swimmer" and interviews author John Cheever
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May 26, 2023 |
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Stuart Dybek reads from and discusses his book "The Coast of Chicago"
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May 19, 2023 |
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Interviewing Tuskegee Airmen Ralph Orduna, Sammy Rayner, Col. Bill Thompson, and Judge John W. Rogers
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May 12, 2023 |
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Interviewing students at Metro High School on the Near North Side of Chicago
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May 05, 2023 |
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Discussing the book, "The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle," and interviewing the author David Hamlin
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Dr. Timothy Leary discusses the stages of the psychadelic experience of turning on and his role as a Shaman ; part 2
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Heinrich Gruber and Howard Schomer discuss Nazi Germany and resistance
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Marlon Brando discusses his views on mankind ; part 1
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Marlon Brando discusses his views on mankind ; part 2
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Marlon Brando discusses his views on mankind ; part 3
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Jack Anderson discusses his book "Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside Story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years"
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Interviewing Hiroshima survivors Hibakusha and Orizuru
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Interview with Maurice Sendak
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Father Daniel Berrigan discusses his life
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Edward Said discusses the book "Covering Islam"
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Bertrand Russell discusses science and world peace. Phyllis Evans discusses the National Health Plan ; part 1
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Discussing the music of the Mothers of Invention and interviewing Frank Zappa
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Former halfway house residents discuss halfway houses
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Peter Bogdanovich discusses the "Last Picure Show"
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Reminiscing about baseball with former Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, Jr.
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Ravi Shankar discusses playing the sitar
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward discuss the book "All the President's Men"
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music ; part 1
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Alan Lomax discusses collecting international folk music ; part 2
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Discussing racial inequality in America with historian John Hope Franklin
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Discussing the book "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" with journalist and author Molly Ivins
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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John Prine discusses songwriting and growing up in Southern Illinois
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Cesar Chavez discusses farm labor rights
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Bob Newhart discusses his comedic craft
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Andres Segovia discusses his life and career as a classical guitarist
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry discuss their careers as blues musicians
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Toni Morrison reads from and talks about her book "Sula"
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Susan Sontag discusses Tuberculosis
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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Mike Royko discussing the book "Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago"
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Discussing "Sweeny Todd" with Angela Lansbury
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discusses civil rights in regards to his "I Have a Dream" speech
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Gage Park residents discuss race relations and racial integration at Gage Park High School ; part 1
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Gage Park residents discuss race relations and racial integration at Gage Park High School ; part 2
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Discussing the book "The Haymarket Tragedy," with the author, historian Paul Avrich
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Howard Vincent discusses foreign languages and Herman Melville
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Discussing the book "The New Russians" with the author, journalist Hedrick Smith
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Pete Hamill in conversation with Studs Terkel
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Federico Fellini and actors discuss their film "La Dolce Vita" and the character Steiner
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Muhammad Ali discusses his book "The Greatest: My Own Story"
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Oriana Fallaci in conversation with Studs Terkel
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Geoffrey Wolff discusses his book about Harry Crosby
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Three Vietman War veterans, Robert Black, Robert Johnson and Dr. Gordon Livingston, discuss the war, part 1
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Professor Ali Irani [pseudonym name to protect his identity] talks about the regime of the Shah [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Studs Terkel moderates and comments on a round-table debate about the Montessori educational theory
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Arlo Guthrie discusses his career
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Discussing Ukrainian music with Oleh Saciuk
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Quentin Crisp discusses homosexuality
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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John Kenneth Galbraith in conversation with Studs Terkel
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Studs Terkel discusses busing for school integration with psychologist Thomas J. Cottle
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Interview with Art Buchwald
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Carl Sagan discusses the book "Contact"
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Sidney Poitier talks with Studs Terkel about his most recent film "The Defiant Ones"
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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James Baldwin discusses his book "Another Country" and his travels through Africa
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Dr. E.F. Schumacher talks with Studs Terkel
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Blind John Davis discusses Chicago blues
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Discussing the film "Before Stonewall the Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community" with author Reverend Grant Gallup and Chicago gay-friendly bar owner, Marge Summit
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Brian Dennehy and Steven Robman discuss their play "Rat in the Skull"
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Buster Keaton discusses the release of "When Comedy Was King"
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Studs Terkel interviews writer Tom Wolfe ; part 2
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Studs Terkel interviews writer Tom Wolfe ; part 1
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau talks with Studs Terkel
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Interviewing author, screenwriter and director John Sayles
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Erik Bye discusses the history of Norwegian immigration to America in the 19th century and his work as a television journalist and singer
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Studs Terkel comments and presents Picasso unveiling ceremony
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Marian McPartland and Jimmy McPartland discuss their careers in Jazz
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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David McCullough discusses his book "Mornings on Horseback"
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Nora Ephron discusses feminism and her book "Crazy Salad"
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Big Bill Broonzy discusses the blues ; part 2
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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Big Bill Broonzy discusses the blues ; part 1
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Elia Kazan discusses the book "Acts of love"
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Reading poetry with actor Gary Merrill.
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Mel Brooks discusses his new movie "The Producers"
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Gore Vidal discusses his book “Lincoln”
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Richard Ford in conversation with Studs Terkel
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Discussing the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting For Godot; Tragicomedy in 2 Acts," with Irish actors Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy. McGovern portrays Vladimir and Murphy portrays Estragon in a production staged by the Dublin Gate Theatre
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Discussing the book "Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s" with the author Kurt Vonnegut
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Rosa Parks and Myles Horton discuss the Highlander Folk School, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the American Civil Rights Movement
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Edmund White talks about his book "States of Desire"
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb discuss the event and nuclear nonproliferation
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May 31, 2021 |
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Soviet intellectuals discuss Soviet arts and culture
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May 28, 2021 |
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Jimmy Breslin, journalist and author discusses his book about the Watergate Affair
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May 22, 2021 |
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Studs talks to people on the street and in Lincoln Park at the Be-In on Mothers Day 1967 ; part 2
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May 15, 2021 |
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Studs talks to people on the street and in Lincoln Park at the Be-In on Mothers Day 1967; part 1
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May 14, 2021 |
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Terkel comments, reads from Charles Dickens and interviews British Actor George Harland
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May 10, 2021 |
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Interviewing Marcel Marceau in Paris while Studs was in France ; part 2
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May 08, 2021 |
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Interviewing Marcel Marceau in Paris while Studs was in France ; part 1
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May 07, 2021 |
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Interviewing Sun-Times editorial cartoonist Jacob Burck
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Discussing film with Harold Hayden, Pauline Kael, Arthur Knight, Jerry Teminer and Parker Tyler
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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Discussing South Africa with South African expatriates, Reverend Theodore and Helen Koetze
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Dolores Huerta discusses workers' rights
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Jonathon Kozol discusses his book "Free schools" and education
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Dizzy Gillespie discusses the art of jazz ; part 2
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Dizzy Gillespie discusses the art of jazz ; part 1
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Interviewing former CIA agent David MacMichael
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Ray Bradbury discusses his books
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Discussing the book, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72." with Hunter S. Thompson
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Maya Angelou discusses her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs talk about their writing
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Studs talks with versatile actor, singer, performer Danny Kaye
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Senator Eugene McCarthy talks about his presidential campaign
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Edward Keating discusses the magazine Ramparts
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Licia Albanese discusses her opera performances
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Discussing the book "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L. A."with the author, poet Luis J. Rodriguez and his son Ramiro Rodriguez
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Presenting music and discussing the tuba with tubists Arnold Jacobs, Harvey Phillips, Fritz Kaenzig, and Richard Frazier
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Alger Hiss talks with Studs Terkel
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Calvin Trillin discusses his book “Killings”
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader discuss their movie “Taxi Driver"
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Neil Postman discusses the book, "The School Book: For People Who Want to Know What All the Hollering Is About,".
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Dorothy Parker discusses her plays and the state of literature
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Jonathan Katz discusses his book "Gay American History"
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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James Earl Jones discusses the play "Othello"
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Norman Mailer discusses the meaning and future of space exploration
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Arthur Charles Clarke discusses science fiction
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Terkel comments and presents musical performance of Buck Clayton
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Discussing the book "The Story of Jane: The Legendary Feminist Abortion Service" with the author and former member of Jane, Laura Kaplan
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Noam Chomsky discusses his book "American Power and the New Mandarins"
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Mike Royko and Herman Kogan talk with Studs Terkel
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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David Mamet discusses his play Glengarry Glen Ross
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Newton Minow discusses broadcasting
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Discussing the documentary film "Shoah," with the director Claude Lanzmann
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Gwendolyn Brooks discusses her poetry
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Panel of women recipients discuss being welfare recipients in Chicago
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Saul Alinsky, American community organizer, political activist, and writer discusses his book "Rules for Radicals" with Studs Terkel
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Milton Mayer discusses Quakerism and the impact they have had on society
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Teacher Vivian Cadbury and Lane Technical High School students read and discuss "Cadbury Tales"
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Dick Gregory discusses American politics
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Interviewing Shel Silverstein
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Dec 12, 2020 |