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Scientists

  • Richard and Patricia Waterman talk with Studs Terkel ; part 1

    1953
  • Allan Chase discusses "The Legacy of Malthus"

    Apr. 25, 1977
  • Discussing the book "Bully For Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History" with the author and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould

    May. 17, 1991
  • Oliver W. Sacks discusses the book "Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf"

    Feb. 5, 1990
  • Studs Terkel discusses "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" with Oliver W. Sacks

    Mar. 3, 1986
  • Interviewing archaeologist Richard Mitchell

    1963
  • Discussing the book "Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin" with the author and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould

    Oct. 1, 1996
  • Dr. William Beecher, Dorothy Buell, Tom Dustin and Thelma McVey discuss the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

    Oct. 5, 1965
  • Lute Jerstad discusses "Everest Diary"

    1968
  • Oliver W. Sacks discusses his patients from the book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat"; part 2

    Dec. 4, 1985
  • Interviewing Jim Moore and of John Durant

    Oct. 6, 1982
  • Discussing the book "The civilizing process" with the author Norbert Elias

    Apr. 3, 1978
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