Novelist Oriana Fallaci discusses and reads from her book "Inshallah", a fictional book chronicling the experiences of a group of Italian soldiers on a 1983 peace keeping mission in Beirut. The interview focuses on the book, its characters, and the larger themes at play throughout the novel. Studs Terkel briefly discusses Fallaci's previous book, "Interview with History." Studs plays "Hajartak Part 3 Start (Your Love is Heartless Gives You Hell Poem)" - Oum Kalthoum.

Independent film director, writer, and producer Gary W. DeWalt discusses the film “Genbaku-Shi: Killed by the Atomic Bomb” and the U.S. citizens who died along with the Japanese in Hiroshima. Corky Siegel performs "Southwest Coast Blues (1980)" in the studio.

Discussing the book "Another War, Another Peace: A Novel" with the author Dr. Ronald J. Glasser.