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  • Discussing Chicago Opera Theater's production of the play, "The Crucible," with artistic director Alan Stone and stage director Roger Brunyate

    Sep. 16, 1985

    Music by Robert Ward and text based on the Arthur Miller play.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing Chicago mobster Murray "the Camel" Humphreys and other noted figures of Welsh ancestry with John Morgan

    May. 16, 1983
  • Discussing Chicago jazz with jazz pianist Art Hodes

    Mar. 4, 1985
  • Discussing Chicago architecture with Carl Condit and Maurice English ; part 1

    1964

    Condit wrote the book The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, and English edited The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan.

  • Discussing cats, dogs, humans withJack Knowles ; part 2

    Feb. 18, 1964
  • Discussing cats, dogs, humans with Jack Knowles ; part 1

    1964
  • Discussing Carl Sandburg and his wife Lilian Steichen with their daughter, poet Helga Sandburg.

    Jan. 5, 1977

    The author of A Great and Glorious Romance joins Studs to discuss her search into her parents' past, including their families' roots in Sweden and Luxembourg.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing British depression with a physician at Tavistock Square [part 3] while Studs was in England

    Sep. 21, 1970

    Studs interviews a physician at Tavistock Square while visiting England. This is an interview done in three parts.

  • Discussing British and American mores with Malcolm Muggeridge

    Oct. 16, 1964
  • Discussing bicentennial time and interviewing Otto Friedrich

    Jun. 1, 1975

    Otto Friedrich discusses his "Time" magazine piece, his writing, and American history. Songs "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Free America" by Joseph Warren, a German song, an 18th century Boston Tea Party song, and an 18th-century British soldier song have been removed for copyright restrictions.

  • Discussing Bertolt Brecht, with Eric Bentley

    Jan. 10, 1973

    The British-American theater critic and playwright joins Studs to discuss the work of German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing battered women and the Greenhouse Shelter with four Greenhouse Women; women's rights activist Alice Cottingham, attorney Andrea Schleifer, Marva Butler White, and Angie Fields

    Apr. 29, 1985

    Chicago's Greenhouse Shelter provides 24-hour crisis intervention.

  • Discussing Bach with composer, conductor and musicologist William Malloch

    Nov. 21, 1978
  • Discussing atomic energy with Japanese physicist Micheo Kaku

    Jun. 5, 1980
  • Discussing Armistice Day with Studs reading from selections by Dalton Trumbo

    Nov. 11, 1971
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