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Business People

  • A conversation with Lloyd Morain

    Oct. 4, 1976
  • Auditorium Theater

    Studs Terkel discusses the Auditorium Theater with friends ; part 2

    Jun. 1, 1967
  • Welfare rights

    Discussing and debunking welfare myths with Wilma Green; Lynda Wright, Bottomless Closet board member; Doug Dobmeyer, head of the Illinois Public Welfare Coalition; Margaret Welsh; and journalist Henry De Zutter

    Jun. 22, 1989
  • Abena Joan Brown discusses the ETA Creative Arts Foundation

    Feb. 14, 1989
  • Interviewing Jessica Mitford

    May. 17, 1979
  • Interview with neighborhood residents

    1970
  • Discussing the quality of modern nursing home care with Elma Holder, Michele Brandhandler and Dr. Nicholas Rango

    Nov. 10, 1983
  • Bob Koester discusses jazz and blues

    Mar. 3, 1993
  • Interviewing Jackie Taylor and Tommy Gomez

    May. 14, 1996
  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression"; Chapter 3

    1971
  • Discussing the book "The Great U-Turn: Corporate Restructuring and the Polarizing of America" with the author Ben Harrison

    Jan. 27, 1989
  • Ferdinand Lundberg discusses his book "Rockefeller syndrome"

    Dec. 18, 1975
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