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Terkel comments and presents music from "Fancy Meeting You."
Discussing Paul Robeson with actor, teacher, and musician Avery Brooks.
Discussing "Zero Mostel: A Biography" (published by Atheneum) with the author Jared Brown.
Interviewing songwriter Sammy Cahn.
The influence of the WPA on the music of the 1930's. The heroic sounds heard in song, movies, and theater. He provides Bing Crosby's version of Yip Harburg's "Brother Can You Spare a Dime". As well as the Almanac Singers performing "Roll the Union On". Both Moll's Song and the final scene of Blitzstein's, "The Cradle Will Rock" are performed. Terkel provides a host of other songs which highlight the music of the 1930's. Extensive discussion on "The Cradle Will Rock" with its producer John Houseman.
Interviewing singer and songwriter Thom Bishop.
Promoting a production of "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill."
Discussing PROJECT! with Free Street Theater founder Pat Henry and lyricist Tricia Alexander. Produced by the Free Street Theater, PROJECT! is a series of inner-city vignettes in song and dance about life in an inner-city housing project. All of the actor