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Workers

  • Studs Terkel discusses interviews he conducted for his book "Working"

    Aug. 22, 1978
  • Michael Frayn discusses satire in the first half and Oliver Howes discusses music in the second half; part 1

    1962
  • Montgomery, Alabama

    Studs Terkel talks with a newspaper woman, Ruth and a hostess ; part 3

    Mar. 31, 1965
  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an Oral History of the Great Depression"; chapter 6

    1971
  • Interview with Will Paynter

    Sep. 17, 1970
  • Discussing the triple revolution with Bayard Rustin, W. H. Ferry and Ralph Helstein ; part 1

    Aug. 1, 1964
  • Interviewing Chicagoan Lucy Jefferson : part 2

  • John Kenneth Galbraith discusses his book, "The Age of Uncertainty"

    Apr. 8, 1977
  • Sam Pilafian and Gerhard Meinl discuss the tuba

    Aug. 30, 1991
  • Cathy Zmuda

    Discussing the book "The Village of Vice" with Candy Armstrong-Jones

    Apr. 1, 1968
  • Michael Frayne

    Oliver Howes discusses life in England; part 2

    1962
  • John Ray, Jimmy Ray and Henry discuss life in Chicago; part 2

    1968
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