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  • Presenting Terezin chamber music with violist Mark Ludwig of the Hawthorne String Quartet.

    Jun. 26, 1991

    Terkel comments and presents music with Mark Ludwig

  • Discussing the book "Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatches" with David Nichols

    Sep. 14, 1989
  • Wole Soyinka discusses the play "Death and the King's Horseman"

    Oct. 11, 1979

    Wole Soyinka discusses the play "Death and the King's Horseman." Includes passages from the play and Nigerian funeral music.

  • Discussing the book "Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life" with Martha Nussbaum.

    Feb. 16, 1996

    Program includes an excerpt of a 1963 interview with Mary Parparis(T2180).

  • William Shawcross discusses his book “Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia”

    May. 25, 1979

    Investigative journalist William Shawcross speaks with Studs Terkel about Cambodia, Henry Kissinger, and Shawcross’ book, “Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia.” Both Terkel and Shawcross read excerpts from Shawcross’ book and Terkel reads an excerpt from an interview Henry Kissinger did with reporter Theo Summer.

  • Interviewing director Andrew Foldi and the cast of the Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of "Carmen"

    Aug. 12, 1992

    Foldi is also the director of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, the professional artist development program of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

  • Muriel Gardiner discusses her books "Code Name Mary" and "The Deadly Innocents"

    Nov. 26, 1984

    Muriel Gardiner's background and her time spent in Austria are the topics of "Code Name 'Mary': Memoirs of an American Woman in the Austrian Underground". With her book, "The Deadly Innocents: Portraits of Children Who Kill," Gardiner studies the lives of 10 kids who kill or attempt to kill.

  • Tom Geoghegan discusses his book "Which Side Are You On?"

    Aug. 28, 1991

    The book, "Which Side Are You On?: Trying to be for Labor When it's Flat on its Back," is Tom Geoghegan's story of working with the labor unions in the 1960's and the 1970's. Goeghegan said the current standard of living is flat or falling which wasn't the case when organized labor unions were present in the 50's and 60's. We're all in trouble, all of us, if labor declines, explained Goeghegan.

  • Interviewing Tom Paxton

    Oct. 18, 1994
  • Discussing the book "Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendant"with the David Perata and guests

    Feb. 17, 1997
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