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  • Discussing The new Catholic Church, the deputy and moral responsibility with Father Pierre Rikas and Howard Schomer

    Mar. 14, 1964

    Father

  • Discussing the new album "Songs From the Briar Patch" and interviewing folk singer Tom Paxton

    May. 13, 1977
  • Frank Zappa

    Discussing the music of the Mothers of Invention and interviewing Frank Zappa

    Aug. 1, 1970

    Discussing the music of the Mothers of Invention and interviewing Frank Zappa. Songs include "Who are the Brain Police," "Brown Shoes Don't Make It," "Concentration Moon," "Mom and Dad," "Bow Tie Daddy," "Harry, You're a Beast," "What's the Ugliest Part of Your Body?" "Trouble Every Day," "Very Distraughtening," "White Ugliness" and "There Will Come a Time."

  • Discussing the movie "Eight Men Out" in which Studs Terkel had an acting role.

    1988

    The film is based on the Eliot Asinof book: "Eight Men Out: the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series"

  • Discussing the Middle East, the American press, and newspaper reporting with Eric Rouleau, Middle East correspondent for the French daily Le Monde

    Nov. 12, 1982
  • Discussing the Middle East with author and activist Reuven Kaminer

    1980
  • Discussing the MacDowell Colony: "A review of the month of April' ; part 1

    May. 5, 1964

    Terkel comments about the MacDowell Colony

  • Discussing the loss of innocence with novelist Irini Spanidou

    Mar. 9, 1989
  • Discussing the life and work of jazz saxophonist Lawrence "Bud" Freeman with jazz trumpeter, fluegelhornist and journalist Dick Sudhalter

    Mar. 14, 1990
  • Discussing the Library of America series with Daniel Aaron

    Jun. 17, 1982
  • Discussing the law and police, especially the selection of Chicago's new police chief

    Apr. 13, 1978

    Discussing the law and police, especially the selection of Chicago's new police chief, and interviewing a panel on the topic: Chicago Alderman Martin Oberman, Police official Howard Saffold, and social scientist William A. Geller.

  • Discussing the Joffrey Memorial Tour with choreographer Gerald Arpino

    Mar. 27, 1989

    Discussing the Joffrey Memorial Tour with choreographer Gerald Arpino.

  • Discussing the jazz community with Rev. John Garcia Gensel

    Jan. 31, 1989

    Rev. Gensel was named Minister to the Jazz Community of New York in 1965 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

  • Discussing the Irish Civil Rights Movement with Mairead Corrigan

    Jun. 8, 1978

    Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, or offensive language. Rather than remove this content, we present it in the context of twentieth-century social history to acknowledge and learn from its impact and to inspire awareness and discussion.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations  

  • Discussing the homeless with documentary photographers Marc PoKempner, Angela Kelly, and Tom Arndt

    Apr. 1, 1992
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