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  • Raymond Bonner discusses his book "Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcos and The Making of American Policy"

    May. 21, 1987

    Interviewing author Raymond Bonner on American foreign policy, America’s relationship with dictators, and the rise of the Marcos family. Includes a test tone lasting about 30 seconds. 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. 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.

  • Raymon Bonner discusses his book “At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa’s Wildlife”

    Apr. 29, 1993

    Interviewing Raymond Bonner, foreign correspondent and author of “At the Hand of Man.” He discusses wildlife conservation, the poaching trade, and animal rights. Includes a 30 second test tone. Content Warning: This conversation has the presence of outdated, biased, offensive language.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.

  • Interviewing Milton Viorst, Middle East correspondent for The New Yorker magazine

    Feb. 25, 1991
  • Interview with Raymond Bonner

    Apr. 29, 1993

    Interviewing foreign correspondent and author Raymond Bonner.

  • Interview with Gordon Thomas

    Jan. 30, 1976

    Co-author of Guernica: The Crucible of World War II*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Harrison Salisbury discusses his book "The Long March"

    Oct. 15, 1985

    "The Long March: The Untold Story" is a piece of history that took place but wasn't reported by anyone until Harrison Salisbury wrote his book. Salisbury was 75 when he returned to China to talk to people who marched back in October of 1934. Most of the boys and some girls who went on the 6,000 mile/march were peasants.

  • Harrison Salisbury discusses his book "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad" and Isabella Zorina discusses a trip to mass graves

    Jul. 1, 1982

    Harrison Salisbury discusses his book “The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad” and the lasting impact of the siege on the Soviet Union and life in Leningrad during the siege. Salisbury reads a poem by Olga Bergholz.Isabella Zorina discusses a trip to mass graves, including the many young people who were also visiting, some as part of wedding ceremonies, and the music played at the graves. Terkel plays Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, at the end of the program.

  • Harrison Evans Salisbury discusses his book "A Time of Change"

    Mar. 18, 1988

    His experiences as a journalist are what's covered in Harrison Evans Salisbury's book, "A Time of Change: A Reporter's Tale of Our Time". Salisbury believed as a reporter, one truly needed to be at the event, in order to obtain the true story. Once Salisbury questioned if he was living in America because he was asked to switch rooms at a hotel in Birmingham, only to find out later that there were special, bugged rooms for reporters.

  • Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan Witts in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jul. 22, 1977
  • Discussing the suppression of objective reporting with Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Sydney Schanberg

    Apr. 21, 1987

    Schanberg was a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times until he resigned in 1985 after the paper reassigned him.

  • Discussing the book "Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador" with foreign correspondent and author Raymond Bonner

    Jun. 8, 1984
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