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Passover and Good Friday (4/13/1979)

April 19, 2019, 11:00 pm

Studs Terkel (Photo: Ray Burley)

Forty years ago, on an April morning in 1979, Studs Terkel presented this musical program commemorating Passover and Good Friday.

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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.

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Passover and Good Friday (4/13/1979)