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  • Sir Allen Lane

    Interview with Sir Allen Lane

    1962

    Studs discusses books with Sir Allen Lane and labor with his driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. The main topic of conversation with Sir Allen Lane is the history of paperback books in both the UK and the US. Lane, along with his brothers Richard and John Lane, founded Penguin Books in 1935. This made both fiction and nonfiction literature widely available to the general public. Literacy amongst the masses is discussed, as is censorship. Studs' interview with Clifford Bosley begins at 32:33.

  • Sir Allen Lane

    Interview with Sir Allen Lane

    1962

    Studs discusses labor with Sir Allen Lane's driver, Clifford Bosley, while Studs was visiting the UK in 1962. Studs and Bosley discusses life in Wales for coal mining families. Topics include literacy, camaraderie, singing, health concerns, and culture amongst colliers and their families.

  • Interview with Simon Callow

    Feb. 8, 1996

    Interviewing actor and author Simon Callow.

  • Interview with Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and Win Stracke

    1975

    Discussing German folk culture and interviewing Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and folk singer Win Stracke.

  • Interview with Scott Anderson and John Lee Anderson discussing the World Anti-Communist League

    1980

    Discussing "Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League" (published by Dodd Mead & Co.) with the authors, journalists Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson.

  • Interview with Sara Lidman

    Nov. 6, 1973

    Interviewing Swedish writer and political activist Sara Lidman while Studs was in Sweden.

  • Interview with Sammy Cahn

    Nov. 21, 1989

    Interviewing songwriter Sammy Cahn.

  • Interview with Sallie Bingham

    Feb. 17, 1989

    Discussing the book "Passion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir" (published by Knopf) with the author Sallie Bingham.

  • Interview with Ruth Gordon

    Dec. 1, 1976

    Interviewing Ruth Gordon.

  • Russell Banks

    Interview with Russell Banks

    1980
  • Russell Banks

    Interview with Russell Banks

    May. 25, 1995
  • Interview with Ruggiero Ricci and Paul Stassevich

    Dec. 20, 1963
  • Interview with Roy Blount

    Oct. 14, 1985

    Discussing the book "Not Exactly What I Had in Mind" (published by Atlantic Monthly Press) with the author, journalist and humorist Roy Blount.

  • Interview with Rosemary Clooney and Michael Feinstein

    Oct. 26, 1992

    Interviewing jazz singer Rosemary Clooney and singer and pianist Michael Feinstein.

  • Interview with Roscoe Lee Browne and Lloyd Richards

    Sep. 21, 1992

    Interviewing actor Roscoe Lee Browne and actor and theater director Lloyd Richards.

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