Presenting live musical performance of Bob Gibson and company with reflections on the Grateful House benefit concert from folk singers Bob Gibson and Anne Hills-Burda, and musician Ray Tate.

Terkel comments and presents a musical performance by John McCutcheon

Terkel comments and presents a musical performance of Utah Phillips

Judy Collins discusses how she began writing her own songs; successes in her career; and the fight for abortion rights.

Joan Baez speaks with Studs Terkel about role of music and the responsibility of musicians in the specific historical moment of the late '60's.

Program includes an excerpt of a 1978 interview with songwriter and labor rights activist Florence Reece.

Discussing Paul Robeson with actor, teacher, and musician Avery Brooks.

Garry Davis concludes by telling the audience he's in town to gain moral, political and financial support for the group he founded, The World Service Authority. Davis' final thought -- any man who defends his own rights is defending the rights of all men. Ray Davies of the English rock band, The Kinks, talks about the studio album, "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)". Davis reads lyrics from the songs, "Victoria," "Yes Sir, No Sir" and "Some Mother's Son".