"When Studs Terkel listens, everybody talks."
This comes from a recent review of Studs Terkel’s new book, "The Spectator," by John Leonard–who quotes the late broadcaster Charles Kuralt.
For 45 years, Studs Terkel, broadcaster and author, spent an hour each weekday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conversing with famous and not-so-famous guests and with a loyal audience of Chicago listeners.
With his unique style of oral history on subjects such as race, war and employment, Terkel has spent decades interviewing Americans across the country, creating intimate portraits of everyday life and chronicling changing times through this century.
Studs Terkel’s work becomes particularly significant as we race towards the year 2000 in the midst of an unprecedented technological revolution with unforeseen consequences. He reminds us of where we have been, and who we have been with.
Guest:
- Studs Terkel, Broadcaster and author who for the past forty-five years who has interviewed Americans across the country on a broad range of topics — from the Great Depression, to World War II, to their jobs. His books include "My American Century," "Division Street," "Hard Times," "Working" "The Good War" (which won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction) and his latest, "Spectator." For decades, he was host of a nationally syndicated radio show based in Chicago.
