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Voices of Our Time: Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews (Audio CD) (Abridged)
Voices of Our Time Five Decades of Studs Terkel Interviews - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Studs Terkel From the 1950s through 1997, Louis “Studs” Terkel, bestselling author of Hard Times, Working, The Great War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT Radio in Chicago. This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning program was an ideal showcase for his curmudgeonly wit, his maverick opinions, and ... more »his genius as an interviewer.
The 48 interviews in this collection, span Terkel’s five decades on radio and encompass a wide range of entertainers, scientists, writers and thinkers.
Contents:
Disc 1. Introduction and interviews from the 1950's.
Pete Seeger (folk singer, 1955) ;
Dorothy Parker (author, poet & critic, 1959) ;
Alan Lomax (folk musicologist, 1959) ;
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (historian of philosophy, 1959) --
Introduction and interviews from the 1960's.
James Baldwin (author, 1961) ;
Gore Vidal (author, 1961) ;
Aaron Copland (composer, 1961) ;
Mahalia Jackson (gospel singer, 1963) ;
Tennessee Williams (playwright, taped in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 1961) --