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  • Presenting music with folksinger, songwriter, guitarist and political activist Si Kahn

    Jan. 19, 1989

    Terkel comments and a presents musical performance by Si Kahn

  • Presenting a performance of the one-man play "Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass," with actor Fred Morsell

    Feb. 3, 1995

    Terkel comments and presents a performance by Fred Morsell

  • Presenting a performance by musician, folk singer, songwriter, and political activist John McCutcheon

    May. 23, 1986

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by John McCutcheon

  • Presenting a musical performance of Utah Phillips

    Apr. 25, 1984
  • Presenting a musical performance of Utah Phillips

    May. 7, 1986

    Terkel comments and presents a musical performance of Utah Phillips

  • Phyl Garland discusses her book "Sound of Soul" and the history of black music in America ; part 2

    Nov. 25, 1968

    Studs interviews Phyl Garland about her book "Sound of Soul." They discuss various musicians that she mentions in her book and their influence on black music. Garland explains the music of young black artists and how commercialization of music gave blacks an opportunity that they would not have had otherwise. Garland talks about how Fannie Lou Hamer used music to express her message in the Civil Rights Movement and as a women's rights activist. Studs and Garland discuss various black female artists and their music.

  • Petra Karin Kelly, Gert Bastian in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 19, 1985

    Interviewing peace activist and founder of the West German Green Party, Petra Kelly, and Gert Bastian (program 2 of 2).

  • Petra Karin Kelly, Gert Bastian in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 19, 1985

    Interviewing peace activist and founder of the West German Green Party, Petra Kelly, and Gert Bastian (program 1 of 2).

  • Paul David Wellstone

    Paul Wellstone reads from and discusses his book "Powerline"

    Aug. 17, 1981

    Farmer Jim Nelson from Minnesota was the impetus of Paul Wellstone's book, "Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War". Topics of the book include U.S. energy policy, civil disobedience, corporate power, the role of American family farmers in the democratic process, and the possible dangers of electric power lines.

  • Paul Watson discusses his book "Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals"

    Jan. 22, 1982

    In not saving the whales, there are no healthy oceans, and we, as humans, doom ourselves. Paul Watson expands on this in an interview about his book "Sea Shepherd: My Fight for Whales and Seals."*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Patricia O'Brien, Nieman Fellow, discusses her book, "The Woman Alone" and the women's movement strike

    Jul. 6, 1973

    Studs interview with Patricia O'Brien about her book, "The Woman Alone" and a large variety of issues of the women's movement. Studs includes parts of interviews he did with a middle-aged man and woman on the day of the women's strike. He also included an excerpt from his interview with Peggy Terry. O'Brien reads excerpts from her book including a poem by May Sarton. Studs quotes Jane Howard, Jane Kennedy, and the wife of Senator Birch Bayh.

  • Pat Duncan discusses Apartheid and South Africa ; part 1

    1963

    South African anti-apartheid activist Pat Duncan discusses Apartheid and South Africa, part 1.

  • Pat Duncan and Deborah Cowan

    Pat Duncan and Deborah Cowan discusses Apartheid and South Africa ; part 2

    1963

    Pat Duncan and Deborah Cowan discusses Apartheid and South Africa, part 2. Duncan's portion of the program concludes at 00:14:20, and the rest of the program features Cowan.

  • Dick Gregory

    Panel at University of Chicago Law School discuss ending capital punishment, part 3

    Feb. 19, 1965

    Dick Gregory satirizes capital punishment in the United States, calls for the churches to take action, and talks about potential actions from "demonstrators." Other panel members answer audience questions (Father James Jones, Norval Morris, Hans W. Mattick, and Arthur Wineberg). Hosted by the University of Chicago. (Part 3 of 3)

  • Dick Gregory

    Panel at University of Chicago Law School discuss ending capital punishment, part 2

    Feb. 19, 1965

    A panel at University of Chicago Law School discuss ending capital punishment (tapes A and B) and with Dick Gregory (tape C). Includes presentations by Father James G. Jones and Norval Morris. (Part 2 of 3)

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