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James Earl Jones (09/17/1993)

February 7, 2025, 11:00 pm

James Earl Jones, 2010 (Photo by Stuart Crawford, Glasgow Film Festival | Licensed under CC BY 2.0)

In 1993, actor James Earl Jones spoke with Studs Terkel about his life, artistry and recent autobiography, Voices and Silences. James Earl Jones died in September 2024, and we remember him tonight with this archive broadcast on the Best of Studs Terkel.

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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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James Earl Jones (09/17/1993)