Early in 1970, Studs Terkel had a conversation with Elsa Knight Thompson. She lived from 1906 to 1983 and was a pioneer of radio news documentaries and a longtime voice of Pacifica Radio’s KPFA in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This discussion about their shared craft — interviews and talking to human beings about their varied lives — is available at the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, which officially opened to the public on May 16, 2018.