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721: The Year Of Return / 722: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/3/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
What's Wrong With Work?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?
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It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
617: Traveling By Book / 618: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'Traveling By Book' - From Africa to England, to a kamikaze cockpit, and to realms of fantasy. Books aren’t just books. They’re passports...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:59
Working
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
513: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? / 514: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/5/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
John Prine discusses his life and formation in music with Studs Terkel (1975) from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Conversations with John Prine from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
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The opening song is a rebroadcast from a previous recording with Studs Terkel. John Prine talks about his family history in Paradise, Kentucky and ...

Bought by KSFR, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Prairie Public, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:21
  • Purchases: 5
John Prine discusses songwriting with Studs Terkel (1972) from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Conversations with John Prine from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
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John Prine discusses songwriting and growing up in Southern Illinois. They briefly discuss coal mining in Appalachia, specifically Blackey, Kentuc...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Prairie Public, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:50
  • Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel Plays John Prine & Steve Goodman (1975) from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Conversations with John Prine from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive
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Terkel comments and presents musical performance by Steve Goodman and songwriter John Prine Interview Date: 29 July 1975.

Bought by KFCF FM, KSFR, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Prairie Public, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 5
407: What's Wrong With Work? / 408: Imagining Climate Change, 8/31/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
303: What's Wrong With Work? / 304: Automate It, 9/1/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Taxi Driver
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
In 1974, author and oral historian Studs Terkel published his seminal book "Working," a portrait of America based on 130 interviews. The raw record...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
The Working Tapes: Press Agent
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Eddie Jaffee, Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Eddie Jaffe was a press agent "legendary for his lost causes, chutzpah and angst," according to his obituary in the New York Times. He represented ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:43
  • Purchases: 3
The Working Tapes: Police Officer
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...

Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 4
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Blues Unlimited #309 - The Blues is a Feeling: Stories, Songs and Conversation from Son House & Lightnin' Hopkins
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Illustration of Son House by R. Crumb; Lightnin’ Hopkins by William Stout.
On this special edition of Blues Unlimited, join us as two legendary musicians, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Son House, tell us about their lives in story...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:59
Muhammad Ali in conversation with Studs Terkel
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Muhammad Ali
Studs Terkel was a champion of a working folk and icons alike, and sometimes, he even managed to bring the two together. In this 1975 interview wit...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KPIK-LP, KRDP, WEAA, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 56:25
  • Purchases: 16
Blues Unlimited #293 - The Blues Unlimited 2nd Annual Year In Review Special: Best of 2015
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Caption: Third & Beale: According to some, the epicenter of the Blues Universe.
Join us as we take a look back at some of our favorite moments from 2015. In a year filled with highlights, great blues, and a bunch of good music,...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:59
Studs Terkel in Conversation with Oliver Sacks
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Caption: Oliver Sacks
On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:22:29
  • Purchases: 6
Blues Unlimited #277 - Studs & Big Bill, Part 2
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us for part two of our special on the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Blues Unlimited #276 - Studs & Big Bill, Part 1
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
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Join us as we take an extended look at the legendary interviews of Studs Terkel and Big Bill Broonzy. We’ll hear stories, conversation and song, al...

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
Maya Angelou on Con Men
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up." - Maya Angelou, as told to Studs Terkel in ...

Bought by KZYX, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and WABE


  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3