The director and principal actor of Brecht's The Resistible Rise Arturo UI join Studs to discuss the parallels between the play about Chicago gangsters and the events of Nazi Germany.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The actor, musician, and social activist talks to Studs about his career and his formative years in Chicago.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The Swedish-American actress talks with Studs about her one-woman show, I Am A Woman, at the St. Nicholas Theater. The program includes some clips from an earlier interview with Lindfors.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Interviewing Ulick O'Connor, biographer of the Irish poet and politician Oliver St. John Gogarty.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

During a visit to the Old Town School of Folk Music, musician Tadashi Tad Hidaka discusses Japanese folk songs. Includes a rice planting folk song, a mining song, and several farewell songs.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

Steve Allen, the versatile entertainer and musician, discusses his travels and his book, "Explaining China."*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations   

The blue-collar writer and poet joins Studs to reminisce about the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s and the founding of his Chicago-based College of Complexes.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Author Sallie Chesham discusses the book "Born to Battle: The Salvation Army in America" and some of the history behind the Salvation Army.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

After spending time with foreign affairs correspondents in Moscow, college student and folk singer Ruth Meyer returns to the States to share some of her experiences.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

Discussing the folk songs of Italy and interviewing musician Roberto Ruberto.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The music professor and choral director of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel Choir joins Studs to discuss the context and history behind some of the selections featured in their performances.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Studs and Red Saunders share memories of the Regal Theater, and are joined by young jazz fan Jerry Donnegan.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

The historian and scholar describes how the suicide attempt which lead to his blindness gave him a new appreciation for life. Studs also plays a clip of a blind Chicago housing project resident.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

Interviewing Peter Heyworth, British music critic of "The London Observer"*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations