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  • Discussing peace in Northern Ireland with Betty Williams, co-founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement and winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize

    Feb. 23, 1979
  • Discussing Ireland, Africa, and world history with Dr. Conor Cruise O'Brien

    Jun. 6, 1985
  • Discussing Chiswick Women's Aid with Erin Pizzey and Steve Harper

    1980

    Founded in 1971, Chiswick is Great Britain's first refuge for battered wives and their children.

  • 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 a production of the play, "Conversations with an Irish Rascal"

    1997

    a musical biography of Irish patriot and author Brendan Behan, with actors Glenn Allen Pruett and Mary Callaghan Lynch, and musician Neil Woodward.

  • Dick Lester

    Dick Lester Impressions of London with Studs Terkel

    Studs Terkel interviews film producer Dick Lester and receives Lester's impression of London.

  • Denis Mitchell and Mack have a conversation with Studs in a pub while visiting London

    Sep. 9, 1960

    *Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • David Thomson, two Welshmen and Ann Thomson discuss rugby and Wales

    Studs starts by talking to David Thomson and two Welshmen outside of a rugby tournament. He then ends talking to David Thomson's wife Ann.

  • Clancy Sigal

    Clancy Sigal discusses his book “Zone of the Interior”

    Jun. 11, 1992

    Clancy Sigal and Studs Terkel discuss Sigal’s book “Zone of the Interior” and the role that schizophrenia plays in it. Both Sigal and Terkel read excerpts from Sigal’s book.

  • Christine Fox, Annie Merrill, Jennie Wilkes of the BBC

    1975

    This interview is a follow up, four years later, to the first interview with these women (1965115-3-1)

  • Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss their work and upbringing in England

    1970

    Christine Fox, Annie Merrill and Jennie Wilkes discuss sexism in the television industry, their upbringings, and what life is like in England for young women. This is the first of two interviews, four years apart, with these women. 1965631-3-1 is the follow up.

  • Brian Dennehy and Steven Robman discuss their play "Rat in the Skull"

    Sep. 11, 1985

    Director Steven Robman and actor Brian Dennehy discuss their play "Rat in the Skull". Brian Dennehy performs a passage from Rat in the Skull.

  • Bill Leahy discusses his views on the political and social struggles in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

    Oct. 20, 1975

    Studs interview with Irishman, Bill Leahy, on the political complexities surrounding Ireland in the 1960s-1970s. Leahy provides some historical background of the IRA and British colonial occupation of Ireland. They discuss Irish music, the Civil Rights Movement in Ireland, and contemporary myths about Ireland. Several Irish songs were played, but many of the titles were not captured. Planksty's music was played twice.

  • Bertrand Russell discusses science and world peace. Phyllis Evans discusses the National Health Plan ; part 1

    1962

    Sir Bertrand Russell says scientists have a fundamental obligation to let the authorities know if and when what they're working on could lead to or cause a war. Russell claims, no matter the side, there are no winners as a result of war. The world could be a far better place, Russell explained, if it weren't for the fact of man's hatred toward other men. If one lives in the United States and has a grave illness or needs a major surgery, Phyllis Evans says one should not have to go into bankruptcy because of all the costs.

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