Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Explore
  • Interact
      • Clips Explore themed playlists of audio clips from the Archive.
      • Reuse Listen to creative reuses of Studs’ interviews.
      • Remix Combine audio from the Archive to create entirely new works.
  • Podcast
  • Classroom
  • Donate
People
Topics
Has Audio or Transcript
Showing 316 - 330 of 393 results
  • Discussing the book "Fire On The Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race" with Gary Rivlin

    Mar. 26, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Dr. Kookie, You're Right!" with the author, journalist Mike Royko

    Oct. 27, 1989
  • Discussing the book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America" with Donald L. Miller

    Apr. 17, 1996
  • Discussing the book "Biography of a Hunch: The History of Chicago's Legendary Old Town School of Folk Music," with author Lisa Grayson and the Executive Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music, Jim Hirsch

    Feb. 11, 1993
  • Discussing the book "At Home in the Loop: How Clout and Community Built Chicago's Dearborn Park" with Lois Wille

    Jun. 23, 1997
  • Auditorium Theater

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends ; part 1

    Jun. 1, 1967

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends.

  • Discussing the Art Institute of Chicago's photography exhibition "Farm Families," with one of the exhibition's three featured photographers, Rhondal McKinney

    Apr. 29, 1986
  • Discussing the "Chicago Schools Challenge " and interviewing James Clement, Mrs. Barry Norton, and Pearl Shaw ; part 2

    1965
  • Discussing red-lining with C.A.P. panel; Hazel Montgomery, Bernie Willow, Stanley Nappolomi

    Jan. 14, 1975

    As members of CAP (Citizens Action Program), Bernie Willow, Hazel Montgomery and Stanley Nappolomi all have their questions and concerns about the communities in which they reside and who gave the banks the right to determine which neighborhoods and communities are deteriorating. An outspoken, almost militant member, Bernie Willow, points out that the charters of savings and loans institutions was to loan money out so people could reside in the neighborhoods. Many of the establishments, Willow says, have dropped the word “Loan” from the businesses.

  • Bud Freeman

    Discussing jazz and interviewing Bud Freeman

    Sep. 16, 1974

    Saxophonist Lawrence "Bud" Freeman discusses his career at the time of his book, "You Don't Look Like A Musician," with talk of his music and his colleagues in The World's Greatest Jazz Band.

  • Discussing Italians in Chicago with a panel of guests

    Mar. 16, 1981

    Discussion about Italians in Chicago

  • Discussing H.O.M.E. (Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly), a private agency dedicated to helping elderly poor people, with Chicago-based director Loretta Smith, and H.O.M.E. founders Michael and Lilo Salmon

    Feb. 26, 1993
  • Discussing Chicago mobster Murray "the Camel" Humphreys and other noted figures of Welsh ancestry with John Morgan

    May. 16, 1983
  • Discussing Chicago architecture with Carl Condit and Maurice English ; part 2

    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 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.

Previous
of 27
Next
Major Support Provided By
The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends
WFMT Radio Network & Chicago History Museum

This site is being managed by WFMT in partnership with the Chicago History Museum.

Library of Congress

In-kind digitization services of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive are provided by the Library of Congress.

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Studs Terkel Radio Archive

All Programs About The Archive About Studs Supporters Contact

©2026 WFMT Radio Network | Site by Jell Creative

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.