Program includes an excerpt from an interview with antinuclear activist Jean Gump.

Terkel interviews folk singer Patrick Sky on his latest project. A 19 minute film entitled "Down the Road" Sky directs and stars in the film about pollution. He describes how he acquired the help of local children to shoot the film and how he got permission from the city to shoot on location.

Discussing the book "The Ghost of Sandburg's Phizzog and Other Stories," (published by Ellis Press) with the author Norbert Blei.

Studs Terkel convenes a conference devoted to examining the works of author Nelson Algren.

Interviewing author Nelson Algren and an investigator for the New Jersey Public Defender's Office, Fred Hogan. Hogan found evidence that led to the overturning of the first conviction of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.

Discussing the book "A Second Look In the Rear-View Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large" (published by Macmillan) with the author Mortimer Adler. Program includes an excerpt of a September 21, 1959 interview with Robert Hutchins.

Interviewing British dramatist-novelist Michael Frayn.

Interviewing actor and author Michael Caine.

Discussing the books "Nutcracker," "The Love for Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version," "Where the Wild Things Are," and "Outside Over There" with author and artist Maurice Sendak.

Interviewing Swedish authors Margarite Ekstrom and Per Wastberg while Studs was in Sweden.

Discussing the book "Cat's Eye," (published by Bantam Books) with the author Margaret Atwood.

Discussing "Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television," (published by Visible Ink Press)with the author and television critic Les Brown.

Discussing the book "Is Paris burning?" and interviewing the authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.

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