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  • Clancy Brothers

    Interview with the Clancy Brothers

    Jun. 26, 1991

    Interviewing the Irish folk trio the Clancy Brothers.

  • Interview with the Chicago Brass Quintet

    Apr. 21, 1986

    Interviewing the Chicago Brass Quintet.

  • Interview with Terry Allen and Jo Harvey Allen

    Apr. 26, 1993

    Interviewing musician, composer, and teacher Terry Allen and actress Jo Harvey Allen.

  • Interview with Tage Erlander

    1973

    Interviewing former Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander while Studs was in Sweden.

  • Interview with Sture Kjellberg

    1973

    Discussing the depression in Sweden and interviewing Sture Kjellberg while Studs was in Sweden.

  • Interview with Stuart Gordon, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Richard Fire and Gary Houston

    Jun. 21, 1982

    Discussing the current production "E.R" (Emergency Room) with Organic Theatre company cast members Stuart Gordon, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Richard Fire and Gary Houston.

  • Interview with Stratford Shakespeare Festival participants

    Nov. 29, 1985

    Stratford Shakespeare Festival participants

  • Interview with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford

    May. 9, 1990

    Discussing the National Federation of the Blind with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford.

  • Interview with Steve Hawkins

    Jan. 2, 1973

    An Air Force veteran discusses his journey to becoming a conscientious objector and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  Studs plays a clip from the John Prine song Take The Star out of the Window.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Stephen Brier

    Interview with Stephen Brier

    Apr. 3, 1993

    Discussing the book "Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society," (published by Pantheon) with one of the authors, Stephen Brier.

  • Interview with St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Lorenzo Turner

    Apr. 27, 1966

    Discussing "Afro-American cross-currents" and interviewing St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Professor Lorenzo Turner.

  • Sir Allen Lane

    Interview with Sir Allen Lane

    1962

    Studs discusses books with Sir Allen Lane and labor with his driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. The main topic of conversation with Sir Allen Lane is the history of paperback books in both the UK and the US. Lane, along with his brothers Richard and John Lane, founded Penguin Books in 1935. This made both fiction and nonfiction literature widely available to the general public. Literacy amongst the masses is discussed, as is censorship. Studs' interview with Clifford Bosley begins at 32:33.

  • Sir Allen Lane

    Interview with Sir Allen Lane

    1962

    Studs discusses labor with Sir Allen Lane's driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. Studs and Bosley discusses life in Wales for coal mining families. Topics include literacy, camaraderie, singing, health concerns, and culture amongst colliers and their families.

  • Interview with Simon Callow

    Feb. 8, 1996

    Interviewing actor and author Simon Callow.

  • Interview with Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Win Stracke

    1975

    Discussing German folk culture and interviewing Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and folk singer Win Stracke.

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