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Studs Terkel

June 2017

  • Southwark Playhouse version of Working

    Rereading
    Studs Terkel’s Working – new jobs, same need for meaning

  • From left, Huon Mackley, Izuka Hoyle and Nicola Espallardo in Working.

    Working review – Lin-Manuel Miranda retunes Terkel's paean to American labour

March 2017

  • Studs Terkel, the US author, historian and broadcaster, who died in 2008.

    The week in radio: The World According to Studs Terkel; People Fixing the World podcast; Between the Ears

    An enthralling compilation of interviews by the great US liberal broadcaster – plus a podcast putting the world to rights

February 2017

  • Studs Terkel

    David Hepworth on radio
    This week’s best radio: Studs Terkel and the best of Anthony Burgess

    A two-part show recounts the career of a master interviewer, while the 100th birthday of the Clockwork Orange author is cause for celebration

September 2014

  • Chicago river

    Reading American cities
    Chicago in books: readers' picks

    From mid-century poverty to contemporary love stories via an account of the 1893 World’s Fair, here is a roundup of our readers’ top Chicago literature

January 2013

  • Reel to reel

    Top 10s
    Sheila Heti's top 10 books that began as speech

    From 'ordinary' Americans to survivors of the Chernobyl disaster, the novelist chooses books that capture the ghostly poetry of transcribed talk

March 2012

  • Barack Obama signs his first act as president in the US Capitol building on 20 January 2009

    Studs Terkel's study of race in the US: 20 years on

    What have we learned in the two decades since the oral historian Studs Terkel published his classic book Race? In the introduction to a new edition, Gary Younge weighs up what has changed – and what hasn't

November 2008

  • Studs Terkel in Chicago in 2006

    Books blog
    Studs Terkel's fine art of interviewing

  • Studs Terkel

    Studs, this one's for you

    Sasha Abramsky

July 2008

  • Studs Terkel

    'Take it easy but take it'

June 2008

  • The unassuming question master

    Review: The Studs Terkel Interviews by Studs Terkel

    America's foremost oral historian moves from ordinary people to the stars of stage and screen

January 2008

  • Gary Younge

    Let me tell you a story

    Gary Younge

    The 95-year-old writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has witnessed almost a century of American life. To him the past is still as fresh as the present - which is why he's a great raconteur, says Gary Younge

July 2006

  • Tales from a good listener

    And They All Sang, A lifetime of interviews by veteran 94-year-old writer and broadcaster Studs Terkel, brings out the essence of his favourite musicians, says Sean O'Hagan.

January 2005

  • Seriously funny

    As a new edition of Nelson Algren's masterpiece The Man with the Golden Arm is published, Studs Terkel salutes the wittiest man he knew.

November 2004

  • He's got it taped

    Although born in New York, Chicago became Studs Terkel's home and the source of the material that made him famous. As an oral historian, his interviews with everyone from 'quiet heroes' to celebrated artists secured him a unique place as a chronicler of the American heartlands. Now 92, he is turning one of his passions - music - into a new book.

August 2004

  • Voices from the American confessional

    At a dark hour for America, Studs Terkel goes looking for shoots of optimism in Hope Dies Last.

August 2002

  • 'One hell of a big bang'

    Today is Hiroshima Day. Paul Tibbets, the man who piloted the Enola Gay on its mission to Japan, tells Studs Terkel why he has no regrets - and why he wouldn't hesitate to use it again.

March 2002

  • Voice of America

    Studs Terkel has spent his life interviewing ordinary people to chronicle his country. Now in his 90th year, he has a new subject: death. He talks to Oliver Burkeman.

September 2001

  • Have we learnt our lesson?

    Unless we learn what it is to be that bombed child - whether it be in Vietnam or Iraq - we learn nothing.
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