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  • Discussing Chicago architecture with Carl Condit and Maurice English ; part 1

    1964

    Condit wrote the book The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, and English edited The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan.

  • Discussing cats, dogs, humans withJack Knowles ; part 2

    Feb. 18, 1964
  • Discussing cats, dogs, humans with Jack Knowles ; part 1

    1964
  • Discussing Carl Sandburg and his wife Lilian Steichen with their daughter, poet Helga Sandburg.

    Jan. 5, 1977

    The author of A Great and Glorious Romance joins Studs to discuss her search into her parents' past, including their families' roots in Sweden and Luxembourg.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing British depression with a physician at Tavistock Square [part 3] while Studs was in England

    Sep. 21, 1970

    Studs interviews a physician at Tavistock Square while visiting England. This is an interview done in three parts.

  • Discussing British and American mores with Malcolm Muggeridge

    Oct. 16, 1964
  • 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 atomic energy with Japanese physicist Micheo Kaku

    Jun. 5, 1980
  • 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 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
  • Welfare rights

    Discussing and debunking welfare myths with Wilma Green; Lynda Wright, Bottomless Closet board member; Doug Dobmeyer, head of the Illinois Public Welfare Coalition; Margaret Welsh; and journalist Henry De Zutter

    Jun. 22, 1989
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