REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL PART FOUR
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Studs Terkel, are you optimistic?
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Studs Terkel, historian, author, broadcaster, raconteur died October 31, 2008 at 96. In this 2005 interview with Christopher Purdy, he talks
about the future.
REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL PART THREE
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Studs Terkel remembers Caruso and Rosa Raisa
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Studs Terkel remembers Rosa Raisa (1893-1963)
prima donna of the Chicago Opera, circa 1915-1940.
"Raisa! How does someone your age know Raisa?...She had a magnificent voice. She was the greatest Norma, ever...better than Callas. She loved to sing with Caruso. He invented the gramophone. Any immigrant who could put together twenty- five cents could buy a record of Caruso singing 'Celeste Aida'!
REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL: PART TWO
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Studs and Radio
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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."
REMEMBERING STUDS TERKEL
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Studs Terkel and Chicago
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Broadcaster, historian, raconteur Louis ("Studs") Terkel
died on October 31, 2008 at the age of 96.
He spoke to Christopher Purdy in 2005 while promoting
his book, "And They All Sang: Memoirs of an Eclectic Disc Jockey".
In this excerpt he talks of the city he loved for over seventy years, Chicago.
"I came to Chicago when I was eight years old, an asthmatic little boy, in 1920. The smell of the stockyards cured my asthma".
Working With Studs
From Atlantic Public Media | Part of the The Transom Radio Specials series | 54:00
Studs Terkel, America's greatest listener: A remembrance from those who worked with him.
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For many years, Transom editor, Sydney Lewis, worked side by side with Studs on his radio show and his books. For this remembrance, told in a seamless blend of doumentary and reminiscence, she brings together of crew of Stud's co-workers with their great stories along with wonderful previously-unheard tape of Studs himself.
Note: Studs would have been 98 on May 16, 2010.