PRX default Piece image

REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL: PART TWO

From: WOSU
Length: 05:47

Studs and Radio Read the full description.

Piece Audio

Playing: REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL: PART TWO
From: WOSU

Default-piece-image-1 Studs Terkel talks about the early days of radio in this 2005 interview with WOSU Public Media's Christopher Purdy. Historian, author, broadcaster and raconteur oLuis ("Studs") Terkel died at 96 on October 31, 2008. "Every radio soap opera had three gangsters. The smart one, the middle one and the dumb one. I was always the dumb one.....I always got killed just before the first commercial break."

More from WOSU

AUTISM AND MUSIC THERAPY 2008--SHORT (06:22)
From: WOSU

A music therapy session with 10 year old Christian

AUTISM: MEET THE BROCKERTS (07:26)
From: WOSU

Parents of a 10 year old boy with autism tell their story

REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL PART FOUR (06:53)
From: WOSU

Studs Terkel, are you optimistic?

REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL PART THREE (04:05)
From: WOSU

Studs Terkel remembers Caruso and Rosa Raisa

REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL (03:24)
From: WOSU

Studs Terkel and Chicago

AUTISM AND MUSIC THERAPY: UNLOCKING THE BRAIN (01:11:09)
From: WOSU

Autistic children find language with music

Adjusting to America (07:43)
From: WOSU

The Somali community in Columbus, Ohio is torn between two worlds: the one it's building in the still-foreign American landscape and the world of its traditional, tribal culture.

Piece Description

Studs Terkel talks about the early days of radio in this 2005 interview with WOSU Public Media's Christopher Purdy. Historian, author, broadcaster and raconteur oLuis ("Studs") Terkel died at 96 on October 31, 2008. "Every radio soap opera had three gangsters. The smart one, the middle one and the dumb one. I was always the dumb one.....I always got killed just before the first commercial break."