Discussing the book "Not Exactly What I Had in Mind" (published by Atlantic Monthly Press) with the author, journalist and humorist Roy Blount.

Discussing "The Damnedest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician," (published by University of Illinois Press) with the author Roger Bruns.

Discussing the book "On Distant Ground: A Novel" (published by Knopf) with the author Robert Olen Butler.

Discussing "Six Characters in Search of an Author," by Luigi Pirandello with director Robert Brustein.

Interviewing author, theater critic and director Robert Brustein.

Interviewing poet Robert Bly.

Discussing German theologian Dietrich BonHoffer with biographer Rev. Eberhard Bethge.

The historian and scholar describes how the suicide attempt which lead to his blindness gave him a new appreciation for life. Studs also plays a clip of a blind Chicago housing project resident.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

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.

Discussing the book "1984 and Beyond," (published by Viking) with the author Nigel Calder.

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.