We need full shows!!!

Every episode must be released, society needs this.

We Need new episodes!!!!

Wow, what a wonderful archive. Terkel was such a great interviewer and his guests were always fascinating. I plan to listen to all of these.

This is an immeasurably important archive and it’s such a blessing to have it in podcast form. Every episode makes my life richer. Thank you for doing this.

Highlights of just 10 of the 169 Studs Terkel Archive Podcast Episodes, I found them both moving and inspirational. DEC 28TH, 2023 Leonard Bernstein Discusses his career …… Bernstein singing from memory an old Marc Blitzstein tune. NOV 17, 2022 Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry …… Sonny explain how he made a song out of the sound of a stream locomotive SEP 1, 2021 Buster Keaton Buster explains what makes comedy work. JUL 21, 2021 Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill playing his guitar for background as he told his story. MAY 9, 2021 British Actor George Harland The reading of, “Captain Murderer” a tale that Charles Dickens said was read to him by his nanny when he was a child. DEC 26, 2020 Milton Mayer discusses Quakerism’s impact on society Mayer and Studs discuss the legacy of A J Muste DEC 18 2020 Canterbury Tales/Cadbury Tales Kids reading the character sketches they wrote of people in their lives. DEC 30, 2020 Saul Alinsky, American community organizer Tales of what prepared him for writing the book, “Rules for Radicals” JAN 26, 2023 Bill Veeck,Jr, former owner of the Chicago White Sox Veeck talks about his love of baseball JUN 22, 2023 Ian McKellan Discussing the art of performing on stage.

His whole archive was too daunting for me to approach. This is a nice way to hear a variety of material. I really appreciate how he draws his guests out, and they have fascinating histories to tell.

This collection is terrific and much appreciated

Where is the first part of the Terkel interview with Oliver Sacks? Can you please upload?

Greatest oral history collection around. Thank you for putting these interviews online. Growing up at the feet of hobos, tramps, and Wobblies made a fine, fine interviewer and human.

Studs Terkel is, in my view, a leading candidate for the title of greatest interviewer of all time as well as being a founding father of the modern mode of recording oral history.

This is a “primary source” historical document. Nobody should listen to only old stuff, but everybody should listen to some for the sake of understanding our history and culture. This archive is essential listening for me. It’s wonderful to listen to these thoughtful conversations from the past. Studs Terkel was a truly great oral historian and interviewer.

I hope the updates keep coming. There’s some great architecture ones out there.

Thank you for doing this.

This podcast is a time machine that can take you across many decades to a convention of brilliant minds whose voices we should have listened to. Whether it’s John Wicklein warning us about the loss of privacy discussing his book “The Electronic Nightmare” in the early 80s, James Baldwin in 1970 telling us how so little has changed yet, even still today, or Shel Silverstein, in 1962, talking about how overly sensitive society had become and encourages us not to clap for bad art,It will only encourage more bad art There is always some nugget of wisdom that might have made the world a better place had any of us just listened. There’s also things that were best left ignored. Like Arthur C. Clark’s 1959 prediction that humans will and should soon herd whales like cattle and farm them for food to feed the growing world overpopulation One of the other things I find really interesting is how in each decade multiple people make use of the old curse, “May you live in interesting times” as they describe a very familiar feeling of a world coming apart. I’m not sure if it should be comforting knowing there’s nothing new under the sun and people always feel like this or if because we didn’t listen to their warnings and advise that feeling is made worse by the understanding that this time the end of the world is not a drill. Either way, we have here a second chance to save the world or some really interesting intellectual stimulation to entertain us as it finally does burn

I think there is a small group of people who will love these interviews. I count myself among that group. Thank you so much for posting these interviews. I think Studs would support this project. He was such a great journalist.

Thanks for putting these up. Can you upload his entire collection please??