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  • New Voices on Studs Terkel - Spring 2022

    Jul. 22, 2022by Allison Schein Holmes
  • Searching for a Calling in Life

    Searching for a Calling in Life

    These conversations unlock attitudes about work in their own lives will become a powerful lens through which today’s public can see their own struggles to identify and realize meaningful work or a larger calling in life within a deeper societal context.

  • Louis Armstrong

    The Feeling Tone

    Studs loved discussing the nature of humanity in relation to work, the arts, and community. Explore these themes via playlists of numerous audio clips culled from the Archive.

  • The Microphone in the Closet

    The Microphone in the Closet: Studs and LGBTQ Voices

    Jun. 22, 2018

    In celebration of Pride, browse some of Studs' most interesting conversations with LGBTQ voices.

  • Arts and 20th Century Social Movements

    Arts and 20th Century Social Movements

    The intersection of the arts and social movements come to light in many of the conversations Studs had with his guests.

  • How Communities are Defined

    How Communities are Defined

    The archive contains powerful examples of people defining community around humanistic activities such as music, science, theater and many other endeavors that transcend personal identities or national boundaries.

  • Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing

    Bughouse Square

    WFMT’s Studs Terkel Radio Archive, in partnership with the Chicago History Museum, invites you into the history books with the new podcast Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing.

  • Bughouse Square Team

    The Bughouse Square production team

  • Remixer Tool

    Introducing: The Studs Terkel Radio Archive Remix Contest!

    Feb. 22, 2021by Matthew Byrd
  • Studs Terkel with instruments

    About Studs Terkel

    Journalist Rick Kogan reads a modification of his obituary for Studs Terkel. 

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