Conversations with John Prine from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

Series produced by The WFMT Radio Network

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Three conversations from the Studs Terkel archive featuring the late John Prine.

Interview content in this offer may be used the following manner:

Permitted:
• Terrestrial broadcast with simultaneous web streaming ok? Yes, ok
• Max number of plays? Unlimited
• Listen-back streaming ok? Up to 30-day listen-back streaming ok.
• Max broadcast window? Up to 3 years from the date of EBU publication/release ok.
• Broadcasting excerpts of the program is okay; do not post online.

Not permitted:
• Download-related, podcasting-related use

Credit Line:
All those who use the interview material in this offer must use this credit on air and on the relevant webpage of the website of the station broadcasting the content.

Credit Line reads:
“Studs Terkel Radio Archive, courtesy of Chicago History Museum and WFMT Radio Network”

Studs Terkel Biography:
Studs Terkel helped redefine the concept of radio interviews and established oral history as a popular and socially ambitious literary genre, among many other activities during his bounteous 96-year life (1912-2008). Chicago’s fine arts station 98.7 WFMT was his base for more than five decades, starting in 1952. His daily radio show was pillar of WFMT’s programming, with its eclectic and astute mix of music, conversations with the many of the 20th century’s most significant cultural and social justice figures juxtaposed by the voices of uncelebrated working people from Chicago and the world and forays into radio documentary, radio theater and front-line oral history/journalism. He was author of more than a dozen books such as Division Street, Hard Times, Working, Race and And They All Sang (Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey) several of which won major awards such as the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He was a dedicated foe of cultural amnesia. His complete Radio Archive (5,600 programs) is being developed by the WFMT Radio Network and Chicago History Museum (www.studsterkel.org) and the Studs Terkel Estate is guiding his legacy more broadly. His self-chosen epitaph is: “curiosity did not kill this cat!”
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Interview content in this offer may be used the following manner: Permitted: • Terrestrial broadcast with simultaneous web streaming ok? Yes, ok • Max number of plays? Unlimited • Listen-back streaming ok? Up to 30-day listen-back streaming ok. • Max broadcast window? Up to 3 years from the date of EBU publication/release ok. • Broadcasting excerpts of the program is okay; do not post online. Not permitted: • Download-related, podcasting-related use Credit Line: All those who use the interview material in this offer must use this credit on air and on the relevant webpage of the website of the station broadcasting the content. Credit Line reads: “Studs Terkel Radio Archive, courtesy of Chicago History Museum and WFMT Radio Network” Studs Terkel Biography: Studs Terkel helped... Show full description


3 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:21
  • Purchases: 5
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John Prine discusses songwriting and growing up in Southern Illinois. They briefly discuss coal mining in Appalachia, specifically Blackey, Kentuc...

Bought by Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Prairie Public, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 54:50
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Apr 13, 2020
  • Length: 55:38
  • Purchases: 5