Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Explore
  • Interact
      • Clips Explore themed playlists of audio clips from the Archive.
      • Reuse Listen to creative reuses of Studs’ interviews.
      • Remix Combine audio from the Archive to create entirely new works.
  • Podcast
  • Classroom
  • Donate
People
Topics
Has Audio or Transcript
Showing 1 - 15 of 57 results
  • Yves Montand

    Yves Montand ; part 3

    1962

    Interviewing Yves Montand in Paris : Studs Terkel in France (part 3).

  • Yves Montand

    Yves Montand ; part 2

    1962

    Interviewing Yves Montand in Paris : Studs Terkel in France (part 2).

  • Yves Montand

    Yves Montand ; part 1

    1962

    Interviewing Yves Montand in Paris : Studs Terkel in France (part 1).

  • Walter Rosenblum and Daniel Nagrin discuss art, life, photography, and dance

    Jun. 2, 1982

    Photographer and author Walter Rosenblum, and dancer and choreographer Daniel Nagrin discuss art, life, photography, and dance. The two answer the question “What calls one to a life of art?” and other driving factors for artists such as political, social, and economic interests. Studs opens and closes this program by playing an untitled Armenian dance song.

  • Timothy Leary

    Timothy Leary talks with Studs Terkel ; part 1

    Dec. 1, 1966

    Interviewing Timothy Leary.

  • Talking about Diane Arbus, with Patricia Bosworth

    Aug. 28, 1984

    The journalist, memoirist, and actor discusses her biography of the photographer Diane Arbus (the first American to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale).*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Studs Terkel in conversation with Buffy Sainte-Marie

    Apr. 21, 1972

    Studs Terkel interviews Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.

  • Stan Brakhage discusses cinematography

    Oct. 19, 1970

    According to Stan Brakhage, being a cinematographer is being a writer of movement. Here, he talks with Studs about film and magic, and always finding new techniques to make pictures move.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Sonia Delaunay in conversation with Studs Terkel

    May. 6, 1960
  • Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

    Rob Okun, Richard Fried, and Peter Novick discuss the exhibit “Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era”

    Jun. 15, 1990

    Historians and exhibit organizers Rob Okun, Richard Fried, and Peter Novick discuss the Spertus Museum’s exhibit “Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era.” Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were both convicted and executed in 1953 for participating in spy activity for the Soviet Union. Okun, Fried, and Novick discuss the Rosenberg case and the subsequent response from the public after the execution, many of whom felt the Rosenbergs were wrongfully convicted. The art in this exhibit captures the passion surrounding this case.

  • Richard Demarco

    Richard Demarco discusses art and work of Jimmy Boyle

    Feb. 5, 1976

    Richard Demarco discusses the importance of riding the art experience of snobbery and the importance of art as relevant to everyone. In addition, Richard speaks on the work of Jimmy Boyle, convicted criminal turned successful artist. Demarco prompts the question: "Is art the language that transcends philosophy?"

  • Printers John Kailen, Gerri Scott, Russ Wadleigh and Hank Orttinger discuss their shrinking trade

    Jan. 13, 1975

    Computers and technology may be good for some people, however, printers John Kailen, Gerri Scott, Russ Wadleigh and Hank Orttinger don't see it that way. As members of typographical unions, they have a skilled trade, and their trade and jobs are being threatened by computers. Some felt their livelihoods were stabbed in the back by the computer.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Phoebe Legere in conversation with Studs Terkel

  • Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore discusses comedy and their show "Good Evening"

    Jun. 5, 1975

    Peter Cook and Dudley Moore talk about acting, comedy and their show "Good Evening," a two man sketch comedy show. .

  • Oliver Sacks

    Oliver W. Sacks talks with Studs Terkel

    Mar. 15, 1995

    Discussing the book "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales" (published by Knopf) with the author, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks.

Previous
of 4
Next
Major Support Provided By
The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends
WFMT Radio Network & Chicago History Museum

This site is being managed by WFMT in partnership with the Chicago History Museum.

Library of Congress

In-kind digitization services of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive are provided by the Library of Congress.

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Studs Terkel Radio Archive

All Programs About The Archive About Studs Supporters Contact

©2026 WFMT Radio Network | Site by Jell Creative

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.