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  • Interviewing Col. Laurens Van Der Post

    Nov. 1, 1963

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  • Interviewing Chicagoan Lucy Jefferson : part 2

  • Interviewing Chicagoan Lucy Jefferson ; part 1

    An interview with Jefferson is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America

  • Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh : part 1

    An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."

  • Interviewing Chicagoan Kid Pharaoh ; part 2

    An interview with Kid Pharoh, a former prize fighter, is included in Terkel's book, "Division Street: America."

  • Eugene Smith

    Interviewing Aileen and W. Eugene Smith

    May. 22, 1975

    Aileen and Eugene Smith discuss their photographic essay book, "'Minamata', Words and Photographs," documenting the mercury poisoning of residents and their legal battles with the polluting company Chisso.

  • Interviewing a Scottish newspaper vendor George Curry and British journalist James Cameron

    Feb. 18, 1976
  • Interviewing with Jack M., a porter while Studs was in England

    1968
  • Interview with Tom Ramsay

    1970

    Interviewing labor organizer Tom Ramsay while Studs was in Lexington, Kentucky.

  • Interview with the Hardin family

    1970

    Interviewing with the Hardin family while Studs was in Newburgh, Indiana.

  • Interview with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford

    May. 9, 1990

    Discussing the National Federation of the Blind with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford.

  • Stephen Brier

    Interview with Stephen Brier

    Apr. 3, 1993

    Discussing the book "Who Built America?: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society," (published by Pantheon) with one of the authors, Stephen Brier.

  • 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.

  • Richard Bray, Paul Yamazaki, and David Unowsky

    Interview with Richard Bray, Paul Yamazaki, and David Unowsky

    Oct. 28, 1986

    Interviewing three independent booksellers| Richard Bray, Paul Yamazaki, and David Unowsky.

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