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“Studs Terkel: listener and humanitarian” via Radio New Zealand

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Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, talks with Wallace Chapman on Radio New Zealand‘s weekly show, “Sunday Morning”

“Wieder says that wherever Terkel was, he believed people had something to say.

‘I think it had to do with his belief that there was always wisdom in the room. And his room was very big – he could be the bus that he rode every day to the radio station he worked at, it could be the corner grocery store, it could be the petrol station.’

Terkel captured Chicago’s racism in the ’70s through an interview with a policeman for his book Working: People who talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do…”

Listen to the interview below:

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