Discussing Paul Robeson with actor, teacher, and musician Avery Brooks.

Interviewing Arthur Miller.

Discussing Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and the Beckett Project with director Alan Schneider.

Interviewing "Spoon river and beyond " cast members William Deryl-Davis, Ron Dean, Elizabeth Garry and Roxana Alsberg, David Starr-flute and George Stevens-bass.

Through an interpreter, Madame Ida Kaminska discusses her role in the film "The Shop on Main Street." Both her mother and father were actors, too. Madame Kaminska explains she comes from a family of actors from 100 years ago.

As previously presented in Studs Terkel's weekly Almanac program, Abe Burrows, talks about how he got into writing. After the Depression, Burrows explained he had no true goal in mind other than that of simply surviving. Typing out material on a typewriter was when Burrows realized he was good at both writing and comedy.

Topics of old age, the elderly and retirement homes are all found in the play, "Gin Game, " starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. The play, says Cronyn, shows the struggle people have with their own characteristics and their inability to change. This program also includes a couple of excerpts of interviews with Eliot Wiggington.

Horton Foote, playwright and screenwriter, and Studs Terkel analyze storylines, conflicts, and characters in Horton’s play "The Young Man From Atlanta." Horton also discusses his earlier work and events that led him to where he is in his career.

Studs Terkel and actor Hiram Sherman discuss Sherman’s upcoming play “Mary, Mary,” the Actors’ Equity Association, and what it is like to be an actor.

Studs Terkel and actor Hiram Sherman discuss Sherman’s upcoming play “Mary, Mary,” the Actors’ Equity Association, and what it is like to be an actor.

Studs Terkel speaks with actor Hiram Sherman about Sherman’s play “A Flea in Her Ear,” winning awards, and the differences between American theater and European theater.

Studs interview with Hildegard Knef, actress and writer. They discuss her life in Nazi Germany during the war and her experience as an actress when she came to America. Studs and Hildegard read together from her book, "The Gift Horse." Knef describes her family, Nazi Germany, survival, and her experience as a German in American post WWII. Her husband, David Anthony Palastanga, also reads an excerpt from her book.