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  • Discussing "With grief acquainted" with Stanford Williamson ; part 2

    Sep. 1964
  • Discussing "With grief acquainted" with Stanford Williamson ; part 1

    Sep. 1964
  • Discussing "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee and interviewing Nancy Kelly and Shepperd Strudwick ; part 2

    1964
  • Discussing "war toys" with Olga Kreisberg and Jack Wright

    Dec. 13, 1965

    After listening to some field recordings of staff and customers at a downtown Chicago toy store, social worker Olga Kreisberg and toy manufacturer Jack Wright speak with Studs about the proliferation of toys that glorfiy warfare. A clip of an earlier recording of designer Charles Eames is included.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing "Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography" with Gordon Parks

    Dec. 11, 1990

    A discussion of the full and varied life and career of the prominent African American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations

  • Discussing "Ultramarine" with the author Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher

    Nov. 6, 1986
  • Discussing "The Fabulous Lunts: A Biography of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne" with Jared Brown

    Sep. 19, 1986
  • Discussing "The amnesiacs" with Paul Herr ; part 2

    Jul. 22, 1964
  • Discussing "Reagan's America: Innocents at Home" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills

    Aug. 20, 1987
  • Discussing "Is Christmas really white?" with Arthur Brazier, Joseph Buckle, Daniel Cantwell, Fr. James Jones and Howard Schomer

    1964
  • Discussing "Free Men, Free Markets" with Robert Theobald ; part 2

    1964
  • Discussing "Emperor of the Air: Stories" with the author Ethan Canin

    Mar. 9, 1988
  • Discussing "Challenge to Montessori" with Dr. Ner Littner, Fay Bauling and Zelda Chevalier

    Sep. 10, 1964
  • Discussing "America and the rest of the world" and interviewing Robert Theobald

    1964
  • Detroit Police Commissioner Ray Girardin and representatives Robert R. Canfield and Jim Moran discuss the death penalty

    Ray Girardin, Detroit Police Commissioner, is opposed to capital punishment. In 1930, he witnessed a man being put to death and he says it's a horrible sight to behold. Representative Robert Canfield of Rockford, explained that the state doesn't have the right to put a man to death. He further explained that the death penalty does more harm than good. Springfield freshman representative Jim Moran talks about House Bill 28 and the abolishment of the death penalty going through.

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