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  • Chaim Potok discusses the Hasidic movement; part 2

    May. 5, 1967

    Interviewing Chaim Potok, soon after the publication of his book The Chosen.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

  • Chaim Potok discusses the Hasidic movement; part 1

    May. 5, 1967

    Interviewing Chaim Potok, soon after the publication of his book The Chosen.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

  • Cesare Zavattini discusses his career

    1962

    Interviewing Cesare Zavattini while Studs was in Italy. Carlo Baldi translates. This is the second half of the interview that starts with Nervi and Nicoletti.

  • Cesar Chavez discusses unionizing migrant farm workers

    Jun. 4, 1973

    Cesar Chavez discusses unionizing migrant farm workers, and how nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a cause with nationwide support(grape boycott). Includes excerpt from Hard Times: Voices of the Great Depression.

  • Cesar Chavez

    Cesar Chavez discusses farm labor rights

    1967

    Cesar Chavez discusses the United Farm Workers effort to gain rights for farm laborers and his childhood that led him to become a labor rights activist.

  • Celia Morris Eckhardt reads from and discusses the book "Fanny Wright: Rebel in America"

    May. 23, 1984

    Discussing the book "Fanny Wright: rebel in America" with the author Celia Morris Eckhardt.

  • Celebration in honor of music director Jim Unrath's 25th Anniversary at WFMT radio

    Nov. 14, 1984

    Celebration in honor of Jim Unrath's 25th Anniversary

  • Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Austrian American composer Ernst Toch's birth with journalist Lawrence Weschler

    Dec. 1, 1987

    Celebration in honor of the 100th anniversary of Ernst Toch's birth

  • Mandel Hall

    Celebrating Mandel Hall's 50th Anniversary.

    Feb. 13, 1997

    Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the University of Chicago's Mandel Hall with conductor William Russo. Mandel Hall is the University's primary performance hall for dance, music, and theater.

  • Duke Ellington

    Celebrating jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington's birthday with jazz scholar and historian Richard Wang

    Apr. 9, 1991

    Celebration for Duke Ellington's birthday

  • Cathy Berberian discusses her singing style

    1967

    Cathy Berberian reflects on the evolution of her avant-garde singing style and her work with various contemporary music composers. Includes an interview with John Cage. Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.

  • Cast members reenact scenes from the play "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit"

    Jan. 20, 1976

    Joe Mantegna, Meshach Taylor, Mike Sod, Dennis Franz and Bryan Hickey, all cast members of the "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," reenact scenes from the play. Joe Mantegna also explains that the guys pitch in to buy the suit. Once they wear the suit, magical things happen to each one of them. .

  • Cast members discuss the play "The Dresser"

    Oct. 27, 1983

    James O'Reilly, Frank Galati and Pauline Brailsford talk about their roles in "The Dresser". Although they've all been performing the play for the last six weeks, they all agree they thoroughly enjoy acting in their roles night after night. The cast members reenact a number of passages within this interview.

  • Cast members discuss the documentary Union Maids

    Jan. 18, 1977

    Julia Reichert, Sylvia Woods, and Stella Nowicki discuss their documentary film "Union Maids" and the tradition of unions in the United States.

  • Carolyn Forche in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 17, 1993

    Discussing the book "Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness" (published by Norton) with author and poet Carolyn Forche.

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