Studs Terkel Radio Archive Containing 5,600 Shows/Interviews Goes Live Online on May 16th; Several Hundred Interviews Available to Stream Today

From Broadway World Chicago:

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive, one of the world’s great spoken-word collections, consisting of more than 5,600 programs in various genres created at Terkel’s hometown fine arts radio station WFMT in Chicago between 1952 and 1997, will become available to the general public on what would have been Terkel’s 106th birthday, May 16, 2018.
[Some Material (Several Hundred Interviews] are Available Today!]

The Studs Terkel Radio Archive (STRA) will be a unique resource for educators, journalists, artists, activists, media-makers, scholars and people from all walks of life seeking to connect the voices and ideas of 20th century luminaries with contemporary social issues.

The project is managed by the Chicago History Museum and WFMT Radio Network, with major support from the Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities plus supplemental support from numerous other organizations and individuals.

Terkel is a legendary figure in the worlds of radio and oral history. The scope of his work has few peers and ranges from his award-winning, best-selling books that helped establish oral history as a popular genre to his daily radio show in which he conducted free-flowing, humanities-inspired conversations with an astonishing range of people such as Martin Luther King, Simone de Beauvoir, Bob Dylan, Cesar Chavez and Toni Morrison and many others. The archive also has the voices of thousands of uncelebrated working people as well as documentary field recordings made during travels around the world including South Africa, the Soviet Union, China, Italy, England, France and elsewhere.

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Project Partners

• Digital ReLab
• Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• The European Broadcasting Union
• Library of Congress National Audiovisual Conservation Center
• Media Burn independent video archive
• The Organist
• The Poetry Foundation
• Project&
• PRX and PRX Remix
• Third Coast International Audio Festival

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