Discussing the current production "E.R" (Emergency Room) with Organic Theatre company cast members Stuart Gordon, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Richard Fire and Gary Houston.

Stratford Shakespeare Festival participants

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

An Air Force veteran discusses his journey to becoming a conscientious objector and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.  Studs plays a clip from the John Prine song Take The Star out of the Window.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

Steve Allen, the versatile entertainer and musician, discusses his travels and his book, "Explaining China."*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations   

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.

Discussing the book "Degenerate Art: the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany," (published by H. N. Abrams) with the author and editor Stephanie Barron.

Discussing "Afro-American cross-currents" and interviewing St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Professor Lorenzo Turner.

The blue-collar writer and poet joins Studs to reminisce about the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s and the founding of his Chicago-based College of Complexes.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

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.

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.

Interviewing actor and author Simon Callow.

Discussing German folk culture and interviewing Siegfried Schmidt-Joos and folk singer Win Stracke.

Discussing "Inside the League: The Shocking Expose of How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads have Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League" (published by Dodd Mead & Co.) with the authors, journalists Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson.

Interviewing Swedish writer and political activist Sara Lidman while Studs was in Sweden.