Marshall McLuhan discusses a wide range of topics including conformity, changes in entertainment media, cultural change, art and artists, originality in dance, reading and language, human interaction with nature, and technology. Recorded in front of a live audience at Kendall College, McLuhan takes several questions from the audience throughout the program.

Discussing Billy Graham and revivalism with author and journalist Marshall Frady and singer and musician Win Stracke.

Maroussia Frank analyzes Paul Scofield's performance as King Lear in the theater production as well as life in a theater company and her experiences as a member and a wife of a member.

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. Self-righteousness and values are topics covered by Marlon Brando. Here in the states, Brando said, we are living a dream. We do not want strife in our lives, and yet he says it seems as though we seek it.

Author and journalist Mark Singer discusses and reads from his book “Funny Money.” This book, and interview, documents the events of the Penn Square Bank failure. Studs plays "Easy Come, Easy Go" - Johnny Green and His Orchestra (1934) and "Patriotic Diggers" - John Allison (ca. 1800).

Studs Terkel and American lawyer Mark Lane dive into Lane’s best-selling book, “Rush to Judgement,” which is a critique of the Warren Commission’s methods and findings, based on Lane’s own investigations and research. He discusses his struggle to publish the book, after several cancelled contracts with publishers, and critical reviews the book received, which he believes are weakly based. This interview includes interviews with three witnesses of JFK’s assassination, collected by Lane during his investigations.

Discussing the book "The Massacre at El Mozote: a Parable of the Cold War" (published by Vintage Press) with the author, journalist Mark Danner.

Marjorie Kellogg writer and social worker discusses her second novel "Like The Lions Tooth". The discussion begins with a reading of the first stanza of a poem by W.B. Yeats "Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers". Studs and Marjorie Kellogg both read excerpts from her novel "Like the Lions Tooth", as they discuss the book.

Marion Clark and Rudy Maxa, investigative journalists, discuss their book, "Public Trust, Private Lust: Sex, Power, and Corruption on Capitol Hill." The two recall how Elizabeth Ray contacted them about an affair she was having with U.S. Representative Wayne Hays, who was using taxpayer's money to pay her. The journalists also discuss Koreagate and other corruptions going on in Washington D.C. in the 1970s.

Marilyn Horne talks about her music career and her upcoming perfomance in "Rinaldo" at the Chicago Opera Theater

Marilyn Horne and Henry Lewis discuss their careers, roles, and opera. Includes Marilyn Horne singing a song from Ludwig von Beethoven's "Fidelio".

Interviewing Equal Rights Amendment activists, Marianne Bell and Shirley Wallace, who were fasting as a political statement, and Illinois state representative and outspoken advocate of ERA, Susan Cantania.

Studs interviews Marian McPartland, who is in Chicago to perform at Rick's Cafe and the Chicago Public Library. They discuss her various performances and recorded albums. McPartland shares techniques of playing Jazz with a piano. She discusses people and events that influenced her music. The musical numbers are removed from this edited version of the original recording.

Marian McPartland discusses jazz music, her husband Jimmy McPartland, and her career.