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Episode #101: Ed Sadlowski: A Message to Pittsburgh

7th January 1975

Episode 101

Studs Terkel interviewed 36 year old Sadlowski, director of the largest district of the United Steelworkers of America Union and the nation’s newest spokesman for union democracy.

Episode #104: Ray Bradbury: The Fantasy Maker

28th January 1975

Episode 104

The man often considered the best living science-fiction writer was interviewed by Maya Angelou with talk centering on abstract concepts of the relationship between science, religion and magic.

Episode #108: Angela Davis: A Closer Look

25th February 1975

Episode 108

Maya Angelou visited controversial black radical and former professor Angela Davis at her home, and discussed her childhood, her time in prison and the role of the black woman in the women’s movement.

Episode #119: Conversation with a Native Son

Episode 119

Novelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.

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Maya Angelou•Doris Kerns•George Will

A weekly series with alternating interviewer: Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; poet, playwright and author Maya Angelou; syndicated columnist George Will and populist chronicler Studs Terkel. Each program featured one of the four in a 30-minute film or videotape report on someone who contributed to the ideas and issues of America.

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