

Studs Terkel Archive Podcast
Ben Welsh
Selections from the WFMT collection of Terkel’s radio interviews, delivered several times each week. An unofficial feed.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jul 14, 2021 • 53min
Elia Kazan discusses the book "Acts of love"
First broadcast on July 14, 1978.

Jul 9, 2021 • 45min
Reading poetry with actor Gary Merrill.
First broadcast on July 09, 1985. Terkel comments and reads poetry with Gary Merrill

Jul 2, 2021 • 42min
Mel Brooks discusses his new movie "The Producers"
First broadcast on July 02, 1968. In this interview Mel Brooks discusses his new movie "The Producers". The following is discussed: the plot; the other actors in the film; the satirical and campy nature of the film; . Brooks performs several different impersonations throughout the interview.

Jun 22, 2021 • 51min
Gore Vidal discusses his book “Lincoln”
First broadcast on June 22, 1984. Discussing the book "Lincoln" with the author Gore Vidal.

Jun 19, 2021 • 52min
Richard Ford in conversation with Studs Terkel
First broadcast on June 19, 1990. Discussing the novel "Wildlife" (published by Atlantic Monthly Press) with the author Richard Ford.

Jun 15, 2021 • 52min
Discussing the Samuel Beckett play "Waiting For Godot; Tragicomedy in 2 Acts," with Irish actors Barry McGovern and Johnny Murphy. McGovern portrays Vladimir and Murphy portrays Estragon in a production staged by the Dublin Gate Theatre
First broadcast on June 15, 1992.

Jun 14, 2021 • 52min
Discussing the book "Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s" with the author Kurt Vonnegut
First broadcast on June 14, 1991.

Jun 8, 2021 • 55min
Rosa Parks and Myles Horton discuss the Highlander Folk School, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the American Civil Rights Movement
First broadcast on June 08, 1973. Rosa Parks and Myles Horton discuss the importance of the Highlander Folk School, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the American Civil Rights Movement. The story of these two prominent figures of the Civil Rights Movement have intervened in their fight for social equality. Includes a fragment of an interview with E. D. Nixon well known civil rights leader.

Jun 5, 2021 • 54min
Edmund White talks about his book "States of Desire"
First broadcast on June 05, 1980. Edmund White talks about his book "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America," published in 1980.

May 31, 2021 • 55min
Survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb discuss the event and nuclear nonproliferation
First broadcast on May 31, 1982. Discussing Hiroshima and nuclear nonproliferation with survivors of the Hiroshima bomb of August 6, 1945 and activists organizing against nuclear proliferation.