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Interviewing Ulla, a Finnish girl living in Stockholm; Karl Selander; and Thomas Cremer, an ombudsman for Swedish Laplanders, while Studs was in Sweden.
Discussing the book "Lost Cities of Africa" with author Basil Davidson while Studs was in London.
Interviewing former Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander while Studs was in Sweden.
Discussing the book "An orphan in history: retrieving a Jewish legacy" with the author Paul Cowan.
These five women are from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Nicaragua.
Studs interview with Basil Davidson, Africanologist, about his book, "Lost Cities of Africa." The interview takes place in Barnes, London. They touch on African culture, history, and civilization.
Studs Terkel interviews Sweden Prime Minister Olaf Palme at the House of Parliament. They discuss socialist political viewpoints and touch on a large variety of subjects. Major topics include work environment, working women, issues of ordinary people, industrialism, the post-industrial society, technology, and communities. Studs gives a short post script to inform listeners about the arrest of five journalists in Sweden, who were charged with exposing information about a secret police called the Information Branch. It was said that they jeopardized Sweden's security.
Noted Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl discusses his most recent book "The Tigris Expedition: In Search of Our Beginnings" in which Heyerdahl and a crew of 10 men built a reed boat in Iraq and sailed it through the Persian Gulf, around the Horn of Africa, to Pakistan and eventually the Red Sea. Their goal was to prove that the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley could have been in contact through marine trade and migration.