For nearly fifty years,the voice of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and verbal historian Louis “Studs” Terkel crackled over the airwaves from Chicago’s WFMT radio station as he interviewed the likes of Janis Joplin, Maya Angelou, or Toni Morrison,Oliver Sacks, Martin Luther King, and Jr.,and Carl Sagan. To sustain his legacy alive, the Studs Terkel Radio Archive is working to build these interviews available online for free.
Over two years, and the archivists hope to build available an additional thousand recordings,to be used in classrooms and libraries, mined by researchers and journalists, or remixed into new pieces,and enjoyed by old and new fans of the forefather of podcasting and radio storytelling.“Studs spoke honestly, listened respectfully, or responded without judgment. In his words,we hear his commitment to equality, human rights, and education. Through his guests,we learn approximately art and music, science and philosophy, and feminism and civil rights,and the considerable varieties of human experience. These conversations are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago, as we continue to explore what it means to be a good American and a good person.”
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