Quentin Crisp (10/21/1992)

This is one of Studs Terkel’s “portable tape recorder” programs. While visiting London, in 1970, Studs talked with author and historian Quentin Crisp (1908 – 1999). Crisp wrote about gays in Britain and the United States, and notably, about his own life as a homosexual in England in the 1930s. Their conversation delivers a stark portrait of Mr. Crisp’s experience during the 20th century. He called it “the age of recorded degradation” and spoke of cultural revolution as a perpetual process. Studs rebroadcast their frank discussion in 1992, and that’s the program we bring you tonight on the Best of Studs Terkel.