Horizons for the Blind works to improve the quality of life of visually impaired individuals by increasing accessibility to culture, education, recreation, and employment.

Studs Terkel talks with Dr. Bruce Douglas about health care. They discuss the price of health care and an experience in London he had when he was sick.

Studs Terkel interviews Debbie Zack and Denise Hennessey about their careers as nurses and why they decided to go into home nursing services.

Studs interviews a physician at Tavistock Square while visiting England. This is an interview done in three parts.

Chicago's Greenhouse Shelter provides 24-hour crisis intervention.

Presenting a rebuttal to editorials opposing the nuclear arms freeze with Dr. Jack Geiger, Dr. George Kistiakowsky, Dr. Herbert (Peter) Schoville and Dr. Kosta Tsipis of MIT.

Comedian and activist Dick Gregory joins Studs Terkel to discuss his new book “Dick Gregory's Natural Diet for Folks Who Eat: Cookin' With Mother Nature.” Gregory talks about his experiences fasting for both political and health reasons, and he comments on hunger in America, the power of the navy bean, and changing trends in eating. The two discuss the peace movement and Watergate, and Gregory shares his experience as a black man in the military. Gregory believes that how you treat yourself and your body reflects how you treat others.

Topics of discussion include privacy in education and access to school records, the use of pseudo-scientific terminology in describing children, the ways that a child's records are shared outside of the school and related race and class issues, the pharmaceutical industry and treatments, and the importance of parents refusing to allow their children to be given psychological tests without their informed consent.

Discussing "L.S.D" and interviewing journalist David Solomon.

Discussing "L.S.D" and interviewing journalist David Solomon.