Both of the recipients are educators from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Heaney is a Catholic and Richardson is a Protestant.

Discussing the book "Who Rules America Now?: A View for the '80s" with author and educator William Domhoff.

Interviewing poet Dennis Brutus and novelist and Northwestern University Professor Leon Forrest.

Condit wrote the book The Chicago School of Architecture: A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925, and English edited The Testament of Stone: Themes of Idealism and Indignation from the Writings of Louis Sullivan.

Discussing the Soviet-American art exchange with Anna L. Crone, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Chicago, Abigail Croydon, and John Carswell.

Discussing the book "Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus," (published by Harper San Francisco) with the author, teacher John Crossan.

Discussing the Chicago Area Writing Project with authors and educators Hank De Zutter, Betty Jane Wagner and Barbara Kotto.

In her book, “Liberty Denied: The Current Rise of Censorship in America,” Donna Demac points out that we, as a society, are not as free as we think we are. Demac can’t understand why anyone would want to keep people from reading great pieces of literature. While some groups called certain books anti-Christian, Demac said no one has ever died from reading a four-letter word.

Prologue Alternative High School is a not-for-profit community-based organization that operates three alternative high schools in Chicago.