Skip to main content

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Explore
  • Interact
      • Clips Explore themed playlists of audio clips from the Archive.
      • Reuse Listen to creative reuses of Studs’ interviews.
      • Remix Combine audio from the Archive to create entirely new works.
  • Podcast
  • Classroom
  • Donate

Discussing the books "Paradise Postponed" and "Clinging To the Wreckage: A Part of Life" with the author John Mortimer

BROADCAST: Apr. 10, 1986 | DURATION: 00:55:14

Digital audio not yet public.

Details

Broadcast Date
Apr. 10, 1986

Physical Format
1 sound tape reel (ca. 55 min.) : 10 1/2 in.

Duration
55 minutes, 14 seconds

Digital Format
WAV

Ownership
The Chicago History Museum

Language
English

Topics

Literature

People

Authors, Writers

Tags

Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923---Interviews Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-. Paradise postponed. Mortimer, John Clifford, 1923-. Clinging to the wreckage. Rapstone Valley (England: Imaginary place)--Fictio WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) Audiotapes.

Related Programs

Denise Giardina in conversation with Studs Terkel

Jul. 8, 1992

Jonathan Wordsworth, Robert Woof, and Michael Jaye discuss the exhibition “William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism”

Apr. 5, 1988

Maya Angelou discusses her book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Mar. 13, 1970

Terkel comments on and reads from "The War" with Eleanor Bron

May. 12, 1986

Interview with Marguerite Young

Oct. 27, 1965

Richard Dean Rosen discusses his book, "Me and my friends, we no longer profess any graces", a premature memoir

Sep. 2, 1971

Major Support Provided By
The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends
WFMT Radio Network & Chicago History Museum

This site is being managed by WFMT in partnership with the Chicago History Museum.

Library of Congress

In-kind digitization services of the Studs Terkel Radio Archive are provided by the Library of Congress.

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.

Studs Terkel Radio Archive

All Programs About The Archive About Studs Supporters Contact

©2026 WFMT Radio Network | Site by Jell Creative

Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this web resource do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.