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 a production of the play, "Conversations with an Irish Rascal"

BROADCAST: 1997 | DURATION: 00:50:49

Digital audio not yet public.

Synopsis

a musical biography of Irish patriot and author Brendan Behan, with actors Glenn Allen Pruett and Mary Callaghan Lynch, and musician Neil Woodward.

Details

Broadcast Date
1997

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

Duration
50 minutes, 49 seconds

Digital Format
WAV

Ownership
The Chicago History Museum

Language
English

Topics

Theater Travel & Culture - United Kingdom

People

Actors

Tags

WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.) Pruett, Glenn Allen--Interviews Lynch, Mary Callaghan--Interviews Woodward, Neil--Interviews Kennedy, Kathleen, 1946-1975. Conversations with an Irish Radical. Behan, Brendan. Authors, Irish--Biography.--20th century Actors--United States--20th century--Interviews Audiotapes. Radio programs.

Related Programs

Studs Terkel comments about London and random interviews

1968

Interviewing Cathleen Nesbitt ; part 2

1960

Interviewing cast members of the Remains Theatre Ensemble production of the play, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial

Sep. 16, 1991

Peter Sellars talks about his production of Wagner's Tannhauser at Chicago's Lyric Opera

Oct. 14, 1988

Interviewing Vijay Dubey Indian film-maker and Habib Tanvir Indian poet and playwright

Mar. 1963

Sandy Paton discusses his career in folk music

1961

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.