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  • Discussing the book "The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers" with Stephen Mitchell

    Oct. 28, 1991

    Program includes an excerpt from the "Joy Street" series.

  • Discussing the book "The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendez and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest" with Andrew Revkin

    Jul. 5, 1990
  • Discussing the book "Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s" with author and jazz historian Ira Gitler

    Feb. 1, 1986
  • Mortimer Adler

    Discussing the book "Six great ideas" with the author Mortimer Adler

    Sep. 17, 1981
  • Discussing the book "Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz" with the author and translator, poet Lisel Mueller

    Aug. 1, 1984
  • Discussing the book "Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music" with the author, music historian Judith Tick

    Dec. 12, 1997
  • Discussing the book "Ragtime: Its History, Composers, and Music" with editor and music historian John Edward Hasse

    Jul. 2, 1985
  • Discussing the book "Prime Time Preachers: Televangelism" with the author Jeffrey K. Hadden

    Jul. 7, 1981

    The recording includes an excerpt from an interview with a young Methodist parishioner.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the book "Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life" with Martha Nussbaum.

    Feb. 16, 1996

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1963 interview with Mary Parparis(T2180).

  • Discussing the book "Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" with author and architectural preservationist Brendan Gill

    Dec. 3, 1987
  • Ross Miller

    Discussing the book "Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City" with Ross Miller

    Mar. 12, 1996
  • Discussing the book "Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie" with the author, historian and critic Albert Murray

    Feb. 21, 1986
  • Discussing the book "Darwin" James Moore

    1980
  • Discussing the book "China" with the author William Hinton

    Mar. 28, 1980

    Discussing the book "China" with the author William Hinton.

  • Discussing the book "Biography of a Hunch: The History of Chicago's Legendary Old Town School of Folk Music," with author Lisa Grayson and the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, Jim Hirsch

    Feb. 11, 1993
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