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Interviewing the Interviewer (1/16/1967)

October 6, 2017, 11:00 pm

Studs Terkel

On January 16, 1967, two of Studs Terkel’s friends, newspaperman and biographer Herman Kogan and author and journalist Mike Royko, surprised Studs by showing up in the WFMT studio as he was about to go on the air. Whatever Studs had planned for his program that day went by the wayside as the visiting pair of veteran writers interviewed him about his newly published book,Division Street America.

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Studs Terkel (1912-2008) radically redefined the concept of radio interviews. For 45 years starting in 1952, WFMT was his homebase. His daily radio show was a pillar of WFMT’s programming, with its eclectic and astute mix of music and conversation. Studs juxtaposed interviews with the many of the 20th century’s most significant figures with the voices of uncelebrated, working people from Chicago. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs helped established oral history as a popular and socially ambitious literary genre. Some of his titles include: Division Street, Hard Times, Working, Race and And They All Sang (Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey). Studs was also a recipient of the National Book Award.

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