Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Explore
  • Interact
      • Clips Explore themed playlists of audio clips from the Archive.
      • Reuse Listen to creative reuses of Studs’ interviews.
      • Remix Combine audio from the Archive to create entirely new works.
  • Podcast
  • Classroom
  • Donate
People
Topics
Has Audio or Transcript
Showing 1 - 8 of 8 results
  • Interview with Dennis Brutus and Leon Forrest

    Feb. 18, 1983

    Interviewing poet Dennis Brutus and novelist and Northwestern University Professor Leon Forrest.

  • Interview with Dennis Brutus

    Sep. 26, 1991

    Interviewing South African poet Dennis Brutus.

  • Interview with Dennis Brutus

    Aug. 12, 1992

    Discussing South Africa with poet Dennis Brutus.

  • Interview with Dennis Brutus

    Dec. 30, 1993

    Interviewing South African poet Dennis Brutus.

  • Interview with David Caute and Dennis Brutus

    Nov. 30, 1983

    Discussing the book "Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia," (published by Penguin) with author, dramatist and journalist David Caute and South African poet Dennis Brutus.

  • Dennis Brutus

    Dennis Brutus talks with Studs Terkel

    Jun. 14, 1973

    Dennis Brutus discusses and reads his poetry. He discusses life in South Africa. Dennis Brutus reads poems from his books of poetry "Sirens, Knuckles and Boots", "A Simple Lust", and "Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison". Includes music in the beginning. Includes a clip of Albert Lutuli speaking.

  • Dennis Brutus

    Dennis Brutus discusses his work as a poet and as an activist against apartheid South Africa

    Oct. 16, 1975
  • An interview with Dennis Brutus

    Aug. 12, 1977

    The distinguished South African poet and Northwestern University professor joins Studs for a wide-ranging conversation about apartheid, poetry, and sports.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Major Support Provided By
The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends
WFMT Radio Network & Chicago History Museum

This site is being managed by WFMT in partnership with the Chicago History Museum.

Library of Congress

In-kind digitization services of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive are provided by the Library of Congress.

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Studs Terkel Radio Archive

All Programs About The Archive About Studs Supporters Contact

©2026 WFMT Radio Network | Site by Jell Creative

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.