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  • Presenting a Halloween program: Ghost of John with George and Gerry Armstrong

    Oct. 30, 1964

    Terkel comments and presents Halloween program

  • Presenting a debate on nuclear energy with Nuclear Communications Specialist for Commonwealth Edison Jim Toscas, and author of "Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation"

    Jun. 3, 1983

    Presenting a debate over nuclear energy

  • Presenting a concert at Oak Park Mall with jazz pianist Art Hodes and blues musician Corky Siegel

    Jun. 15, 1983

    Terkel comments and presents a concert at Oak Park Mall

  • Presenting 18th and 19th century American parlor music with members of the Oriana Singers and Director Bill Chin

    Oct. 31, 1989

    Terkel comments and presents a performance of 18th and 19th century American parlor music

  • Presenting "Pasiones [Songs of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939]," with Jamie O'Reilly and Michael Smith

    Apr. 25, 1997

    Terkel comments and presents songs of the Spanish Civil War

  • Presenting "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression": "Honor and humiliation"

    Jun. 24, 1971

    Presenting "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression": "Honor and humiliation" with Judge Sam Heller, Herman Shumlin, Anna Ramsay, Elsa Ponselle, Howard Worthington, Ben Isaacs, Ward James, Mick (Milton) Shufro, Eileen Barth (a pseudonym for Id) (program XI)

  • Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club members discuss rowing

    1970

    Studs Terkel’s trip to England included a visit to the Poplar Blackwall and District Rowing Club. Its members discuss the Great River Race and the culture of working on the Thames’ docks.

  • Polly Podewell and Johnnie McDonough discuss jazz music and vocalists

    Oct. 15, 1979

    Polly Podewell and Johnnie McDonough evaluate jazz vocalists, musical influences, and compare music genres. Jazz music performances of Polly Podewell (from private tape) are interspersed throughout the interview as well as recordings from Mildred Bailey, Helen Ward, and Billie Holiday. Songs are removed on this file due to copyright reasons.

  • Poet and editor John Frederick Nims talks about Poetry Magazine

    Feb. 14, 1978

    Many of the great 20th century poets were published for the first time in Poetry Magazine. Among the poets discussed here are Robert Frost, e e cummings, Wallace Stevens, Ogden Nash, Richard Wilber, Gwendolyn Brooks, and W.H. Auden.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Rose Styron

    Poet and activist Rose Styron reads works by exiled writers

    Nov. 8, 1977

    Rose Styron and Studs read works by exiled writers and performers and discuss Amnesty International.

  • Playwright August Wilson, actor James Earl Jones, and director Lloyd Richards discuss their play "Fences"

    Feb. 7, 1986

    The Goodman Theatre cast of the play “Fences” discuss some of the major themes from the play, including the African-American experience and race relations, particularly in Major League Baseball.

  • Placido Domingo

    Placido Domingo discusses his career as a tenor singer

    Dec. 14, 1979

    Placido Domingo discusses his career as a tenor singer and conductor, including his role in the film "Otello" directed by Franco Zeffirelli and based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

  • Pietro Di Donato in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Nov. 15, 1979

    Discussing Italians with novelist Pietro Di Donato.

  • Pierre Burton discusses his book “The Impossible Railway”

    Oct. 1972

    Pierre Burton, Canadian writer and journalist, discusses his book “The Impossible Railway,” touching on topics including the significance of the Canadian Pacific Railway, poor labor conditions on the railway, and differences between America and Canada. Content Warning: This conversation includes racially and/or culturally derogatory language and/or negative depictions of Black and Indigenous people of color, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals.

  • Pierre Brasseur talks with Studs Terkel ; part 2

    May. 1, 1960
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