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  • Interviewing radio and television historian J. Fred MacDonald, and Clarice Durham, widow of Richard Durham, an African American radio scriptwriter

    Dec. 16, 1991

    Durham created and broadcast radio plays in Chicago from 1948-1950, and his work was chronicled in "Richard Durham's Destination Freedom: Scripts From Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-50."

  • Interviewing pianist and music historian John Edward Hasse

    Mar. 22, 1989
  • Interviewing Nicholas von Hoffman

    Oct. 10, 1978

    In his book, Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter, the American journalist Nicholas von Hoffman examines which presidents had power and which did not.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing Mike Kline

    Mar. 11, 1986
  • Interviewing Lady Antonia Fraser

    Nov. 14, 1979

    The British biographer joins Studs to discuss her latest book, Royal Charles, about King Charles II of England.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing labor historian Bill Adelman and guest

    Jun. 30, 1994
  • Interviewing journalist, rock critic and historian Dave Marsh

    Nov. 1, 1985
  • Interviewing John H. Spencer

    Jun. 7, 1984
  • Interviewing jazz and blues historian, novelist and critic Albert Murray

    Jul. 19, 1991
  • Interviewing historian, composer, and founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon

    Feb. 23, 1988
  • Interviewing historian and photographer Vicki Goldberg

    1980
  • Interviewing Gambian-born, Chicago-based Mandingo griot (musician and oral historian of the Mandingo people of West Africa) and kora player Foday Musa Suso

    Nov. 2, 1977
  • Interviewing folklorist John Henry Faulk

    1964
  • Interviewing Elizabeth Stone

    Apr. 14, 1988

    The author and oral historian joins Studs to discuss her book, Black Sheep and Kissing Cousins: How Our Family Stories Shape Us.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Interviewing director and acting coach Peter Wood and Theatre School of DePaul University alumna and Chicago theater historian Lucille Strauss

    Aug. 24, 1988
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