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  • Talking about puppets, with Judy Berry Brown and Nancy Staub

    Feb. 5, 1981
  • Wole Soyinka discusses the play "Death and the King's Horseman"

    Oct. 11, 1979
  • Buster Keaton

    Buster Keaton discusses the release of "When Comedy Was King"

    Sep. 5, 1960
  • Peggy Nelson, Arnaud d'Usseau, and Olivier Bernier

    1962
  • Hiram Sherman discusses the play “A Flea in Her Ear”

    Apr. 23, 1968
  • Birgit Nilsson during her time playing Leonore in Fidelio at the Lyric Opera of Chicago ; part 1

    Nov. 15, 1961
  • Eartha Kitt

    Eartha Kitt discusses her music career ; part 2

    Jul. 10, 1962
  • W.C. Fields

    Carlotta Monti discusses W.C. Fields and her book "W.C. Fields & Me"

    Jun. 7, 1971
  • Tommy Titmus and residents of West Ham Old People's home discuss the British Depression

    Sep. 30, 1970
  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" ; Program 15; part 1

    1971
  • Victor Banerjee

    Victor Banerjee discusses the film "Passage to India"

    Apr. 23, 1985
  • Marlene Dietrich

    Interviewing Marlene Dietrich at McCormick Place.

    Nov. 30, 1960
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