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  • Discussing bicentennial time and interviewing Otto Friedrich

    Jun. 1, 1975

    Otto Friedrich discusses his "Time" magazine piece, his writing, and American history. Songs "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Free America" by Joseph Warren, a German song, an 18th century Boston Tea Party song, and an 18th-century British soldier song have been removed for copyright restrictions.

  • Discussing Bertolt Brecht, with Eric Bentley

    Jan. 10, 1973

    The British-American theater critic and playwright joins Studs to discuss the work of German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing battered women and the Greenhouse Shelter with four Greenhouse Women; women's rights activist Alice Cottingham, attorney Andrea Schleifer, Marva Butler White, and Angie Fields

    Apr. 29, 1985

    Chicago's Greenhouse Shelter provides 24-hour crisis intervention.

  • Discussing Bach with composer, conductor and musicologist William Malloch

    Nov. 21, 1978
  • Discussing atomic energy with Japanese physicist Micheo Kaku

    Jun. 5, 1980
  • Discussing Armistice Day with Studs reading from selections by Dalton Trumbo

    Nov. 11, 1971
  • Discussing Apartheid, South Africa, British colonialism, and Afrikaner and Black African cultures with South African expatriates, Reverend Theodore Koetze and Helen Koetze

    Mar. 26, 1984
  • Discussing anthropology with Dr. Montagu

    Feb. 2, 1970
  • Discussing and reading the poem "Long Goodbye," with author and poet Thomas McGrath

    1980
  • Discussing and reading poetry from the books "The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984" and "Sources" with Adrienne Rich

    Jul. 17, 1985
  • Discussing and reading from the book "The mismeasure of man"

    1980

    Discussing and reading from the book "The mismeasure of man" with the author Stephen Jay Gould.

  • Discussing and reading from the book "Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South" with journalist and author John Egerton

    Nov. 3, 1994
  • Discussing and reading from the book "Shoeless Joe"with W. P. Kinsella

    May. 24, 1982
  • Discussing and reading from his collection "Wild Gratitude: Poems" with poet Edward Hirsch

    Feb. 24, 1986
  • Discussing and reading excerpts from the book "Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women," with Carolyn Kizer

    Oct. 31, 1985
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