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Episode 1

Bono on His Dad’s Final Days

air day: 2012-05-09

“I’d go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I’d go to the hospital and I’d sleep beside my father.”
– Bono. Interview by Anthony Bozza.

INTERVIEW NOTES
– The Date: October 2001
– The Scene: By telephone
– The Source: Minidisc recorder
– Anthony recorded this interview whereas writing for Rolling Stone Magazine

Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Shawn Wen

Video scribing: Truscribe

Music Credits: U2 “Kite” | Scratch Massive “In the Dressing Room” & “For a Departure”

Episode 2

Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in his Perfect Life

air day: 2012-07-13

“My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I’ve accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish.” ~Kelly Slater

Kelly Slater is a world champion surfer. He’s arguably one of the best of all time. The Michael Jordan of browsing. He has all of it. Or does he? During an interview with Josh Baron of Relix journal, Slater let down his guard and instructed the true story. He talked about his failings out of the water in his private life. You’ll benefit from the private dialog. One notice: all of the music you are about to listen to is Kelly Slater taking part in the guitar and singing songs he wrote. It’s not one thing you at all times hear throughout an interview.

Interview by Josh Baron, editor-in-chief of Relix journal
Nov. 17, 2008 // The Bowery Hotel, New York // Digital recorder

Episode three

Muhammad Ali On Going To Mars

air day: 2012-09-17

It was the summer season of 1966 when a persistent 17-year-old with a highschool radio present close to Chicago obtained the interview of lifetime: Muhammad Ali. But solely a handful of individuals ever obtained to listen to this time capsule. Until now.

Ali epically riffs about preventing on Mars, touring by means of time, and explaining why large speak and boasting obtained him a shot at a title combat sooner than different challengers. “Some of them thought I was crazy,” Ali stated. “They were frightened of me.”

Interview by Michael Aisner // Muhammad Ali Fan Club, Chicago 1966 // reel-to-reel tape recorder

Episode four

Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz

air day: 2013-01-10

“If I told you all the stories about what happened to people if they were caught listening to jazz.” – Dave Brubeck in 2008

Interviewer: John Dankosky WNPR

Music: Dave Brubeck Quartet stay on the 2008 Litchfield Jazz Festival

Episode 5

Larry King on Getting Seduced

air day: 2013-03-19

“I’m playing these records. The phone rings and I pick it up: ‘WAHR’. And this lady’s voice–I can still hear her voice–she goes: ‘I want you.'” – Larry King

Interview by Cal Fussman
Esquire writer-at-large
Los Angeles, 2001

Episode 6

Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful

air day: 2013-04-02

“What’s wrong with being fat? That’s what I want to know.” – Jim Morrison

Interview by Howard Smith
TheSmithTapes.com / Villagevoice.com
Los Angeles, 1969

Episode 7

David Foster Wallace on Ambition

air day: 2013-04-17

“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” – David Foster Wallace

Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC
March four, 1996

Interview initially aired on the Leonard Lopate Show

Episode eight

Beastie Boys on Being Stupid

air day: 2013-04-30

“There’s a way we talk and it includes profanity. We never figured we’d be arrested for it.”
– Mike “Mike D” Diamond

Interview by Rocci Fisch for ABC News Radio
1985, Washington, D.C. Cassette Tape

Episode 9

Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales

air day: 2013-05-14

“I think a lot of ladies found me so attractive because I was different.”
– Wilt Chamberlain

Original interview aired in 1992 on “Sports Innerview with Ann Liguori”

Episode 10

James Brown on Conviction, Respect & Reagan

air day: 2013-05-28

“Black is not a color; it’s an attitude. It’s the attitude of independence, respect and dignity.”
– James Brown

Interview by Rocci Fisch
1984. Washington, D.C. Convention Center
Originally recorded for ABC News Radio

Episode 11

Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid

air day: 2013-06-10

“I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I’m still frightened… Nothing changes.”
– Maurice Sendak

Interview by Andrew Romano and Ramin Seetodeh
2009. Sendak’s house in Connecticut

Episode 12

Louis Armstrong on His Chops

air day: 2013-06-25

“You’ve got to be good or as bad as the devil. … Even if we had two, three days off I still had to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops.”
– Louis Armstrong

Interview by Michael Aisner and James R. Stein
1964. Ravinia close to Chicago
Originally aired on WNTH – Winnetka, Illinois

Episode 13

Farrah Fawcett on Stiletto Power

air day: 2013-07-09

“I’ve got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face.”
– Farrah Fawcett

Interview by Lawrence Grobel
1994, Hollywood

Episode 14

Fidel Castro: The Lost Interview

air day: 2013-07-23

“If this Revolution falls, what we will have here in Cuba is a hell. Hell itself.” – Fidel Castro

Clark Hewitt Galloway interviewed Fidel Castro in Havana in 1959 within the midst of the Cuban revolution. His story ran in U.S. News & World Report. Galloway’s granddaughter, Laura Galloway, held on to her grandfather’s interview tape.

Episode 15

Janis Joplin on Rejection

air day: 2013-09-23

“In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.”
– Janis Joplin

Howard Smith interviewed Janis Joplin by telephone on September 30, 1970. This turned out to be the final interview Janis ever did. She died on October four, 1970. Howard was writing for the Village Voice.

Episode 16

Ray Charles on Singing True

air day: 2013-10-08

“If somebody don’t like something that I do, that’s his or her prerogative. Just like it’s mine.” – Ray Charles. 

Joe Smith interviewed Ray Charles on June three, 1987 throughout the writing of Off the Record–his oral historical past of rock and roll.

Episode 17

Kurt Cobain on Identity

air day: 2013-10-22

“I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem.” – Kurt Cobain

Interview by Jon Savage
July 22, 1993. Cassette Tape

Episode 18

Jerry Garcia on The Acid Tests

air day: 2013-11-05

“When we fell in with the Acid Tests we a started having the most fun we had ever had.”
– Jerry Garcia

Interview by Joe Smith
May 23, 1988
Cassette Tape

Episode 19

Grace Kelly on JFK

air day: 2013-11-19

“He turned to me suddenly and asked: ‘Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?’ And I said, ‘why how clever of you, Mr. President. However did you know?'”
– Grace Kelly

Interview by Paul Gallico / JFK Archives
June 19, 1965
Palace of the Principality, Monaco
Reel-to-reel

Episode 20

Tupac Shakur on Life and Death

air day: 2013-12-03

“If I was white I would have been like John Wayne… I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play” – Tupac Shakur

Interview by Benjamin Svetkey
March 1994
Microcassette recorder
Related profile appeared in Entertainment Weekly

Episode 21

John Updike on Family Affairs

air day: 2013-12-17

“There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say” – John Updike

Interview by John Freeman
Spring 2002
Microcassette recorder

Episode 22

Barry White on Making Love

air day: 2014-01-07

“When a man is making love, the last thing he thinks about is war”
– Barry White

Interview by Joe Smith
April three, 1987, Los Angeles
Tape recorder

Episode 23

Carol Burnett on Finding Home

air day: 2014-01-21

“When I looked in his eyes, he was there. He was home… I had a dad.”
– Carol Burnett

Interview by Leonard Lopate
August 19, 2003, WNYC Studios

Original interview aired on the Leonard Lopate Show

Episode 24

Stan Getz on Wasted Years

air day: 2014-02-18

“I’ve done some dastardly things, but what can I do except make amends and apologize?”
– Stan Getz

Interview by Joe Smith
August 7, 1987, Los Angeles
Tape recorder

Episode 25

Heath Ledger on Role Playing

air day: 2014-03-04

“My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into”
– Heath Ledger

Interview by Christine Spines
Fall 2005, Cassette Tape
Her profile ran in Entertainment Weekly

Episode 26

Johnny Cash on The Gospel

air day: 2014-04-08

“I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on”
– Johnny Cash, 1996

Interview by Barney Hoskyns

Episode 27

John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Love

air day: 2014-04-22

“It’s all true, folks: all you need is love.”
– John Lennon, 1969

Interviews by Howard Smith

Episode 28

Gene Wilder on The Truth

air day: 2014-05-06

“On stage or in the movies I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.”
– Gene Wilder, March 2007

Conversation with Ms. journal founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Episode 29

David Bowie on Stardust

air day: 2014-05-20

“I never really felt like a rock singer or a rock star. I always felt a little bit out of my element”
– David Bowie

Interview by Joe Smith

Episode 30

Philip Seymour Hoffman on Happiness

air day: 2014-06-03

“Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman

Conversation with Simon Critchley recorded stay on the Rubin Museum of Art on Dec 22, 2012

Episode 31

Meryl Streep on Beauty

air day: 2014-06-24

“It’s very humbling to imagine somebody else’s really life and their pain … It’s my drug”
– Meryl Streep

Interview by Christine Spines, 2008

Episode 32

Jimi Hendrix on The Experience

air day: 2014-08-26

“When things get too heavy just call me helium–the lightest known gas to man.”
– Jimi Hendrix in his closing interview

Episode 33

Michael Jackson on Godliness

air day: 2014-09-16

“My singing… i’ll just say it simple as possible: it’s just godly.”
– Michael Jackson in January 1980

Episode 34

Bette Davis on The Sexes

air day: 2014-09-30

“I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.”
– Bette Davis in 1963

Episode 35

Liberace on Peacocking

air day: 2014-10-14

“Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it”
– Liberace in 1968 as instructed to Jay Kent Hackleman

Episode 36

Maya Angelou on Con Men

air day: 2014-10-28

“The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up.” – Maya Angelou, as instructed to Studs Terkel in 1970

Episode 37

Wayne Coyne on Living With Death

air day: 2014-11-11

“I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.”
– Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips in 2002

Episode 38

Robin Williams on Masks

air day: 2014-12-02

“Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal…. So you don’t take yourself seriously and destroy the species.”
– Robin Williams in 1991, as instructed to Lawrence Grobel

Episode 39

Tom Robbins on Jitterbugs

air day: 2014-12-16

“If I knew how it was going to end, I probably wouldn’t write it.”
– Tom Robbins in 1994, as instructed to Tod Mesirow

Episode 40

Elliott Smith on Freaks

air day: 2015-01-20

“A lot of people are kind of depressed. I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not.”
– Elliott Smith in 1998, as instructed to Barney Hoskyns

Episode 41

B.B. King on The Blues

air day: 2015-02-03

“I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.”
– B.B. King on September 5, 1986, as instructed to Joe Smith

Episode 42

Lou Reed on Guns & Ammo

air day: 2015-02-17

“I write a song called ‘Heroin’, you would have thought that I murdered the Pope or something”
– Lou Reed on March 20, 1987, as instructed to Joe Smith

Episode 43

Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty

air day: 2015-04-14

“Mama just always said, ‘you be what you are and you don’t have to worry about nothing'”
– Dolly Parton as instructed to Lawrence Grobel on March 13, 1978

Episode 44

Ray Bradbury on Madmen

air day: 2015-04-28

“Nobody else is going to give a damn what you’re doing, so you need a few other people like yourself”
– Ray Bradbury as instructed to 2 faculty youngsters on street journey in 1972

Episode 45

John Coltrane on Giant Steps

air day: 2015-05-12

“I want to be the force which is truly for good.”
– John Coltrane in 1966, as instructed Frank Kofsky

Episode 46

Joni Mitchell on Illusions

air day: 2015-05-26

“I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.”
– Joni Mitchell in 1986, as instructed to Joe Smith

Episode 47

Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness

air day: 2015-06-09

” I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.”
– Ayn Rand on February 25, 1959, as instructed to Mike Wallace

Episode 48

Roger Ebert on Ego

air day: 2015-06-23

“I have innate confidence that I am right. Partially out of conviction and partially as a pose.” – Roger Ebert in 1990

Episode 49

Dustin Hoffman in 1971 on Duplicity and Famosity

air day: 2015-07-14

“I did as much as I could do at that time in my life … I tried as hard as I could and I couldn’t do better”
– Dustin Hoffman in 1971

Episode 50

Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws

air day: 2015-07-28

“I keep my mouth shut now. I’ve turned into a professional coward.”
– Hunter S. Thompson in 1967

Episode 51

Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing

air day: 2015-09-29

“I don’t know what the ‘big time’ is” – Tom Waits in 1988.

Tom Waits had simply launched the live performance movie, Big Time, when he was interviewed by Chris Roberts in September 1988. The interview was recorded on cassette tape at a recording studio; you possibly can hear varied tunes taking part in within the background. We discovered the interview within the Rock’s Backpages archive.

Episode 52

Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

air day: 2015-10-13

“I’m sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t wish to die.”
– Patty Hearst in 1982 within the first interview she gave after getting out of jail

Episode 53

Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious

air day: 2015-10-27

“I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do”
– Bill Murray in October 1988

Episode 54

Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys

air day: 2015-11-10

“Nothing means anything” – Kurt Vonnegut on November eight, 1970

Episode 55

Nina Simone on Shock

air day: 2015-12-01

“I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I’ve dreamed.” – Nina Simone in July, 1968

Episode 56

Garrison Keillor on Humor

air day: 2015-12-15

“My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” – Garrison Keillor in 1994.

In this new episode we’ve a dialog with a real storyteller, the humorist, Garrison Keillor. This interview was recorded in entrance a stay viewers again in November of 1994 on the 92nd Street Y in New York City. On stage that evening was Keillor, the host of A Praire Home Companion, and George Plimpton, the famed editor of the Paris Review. The thread of their dialog that evening was: the qualities of humor. It’s been awhile since we dug into the archives of talks recorded on the 92Y through the years. What we liked about this dialog was one thing we hadn’t actually considered earlier than: What is the duty of humor? Enjoy

Episode 57

Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

air day: 2016-02-02

“I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” – Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.

Hear extra outtakes from the interview @ http://blankonblank.org/sally-ride

This episode marks the return of our particular sequence, The Experimenters. We’re uncovering misplaced interviews with the icons of science, know-how, and innovation – individuals who helped make the world we stay in at this time. And some visitor animators are bringing these conversations to life.

One of these folks is Sally Ride. These days, nearly each area mission has ladies on it. It’s simply not an enormous deal. But in 1983, it was very a lot an enormous deal – that’s the 12 months Sally Ride grew to become the primary American girl in area.

Back in 1963, Russia despatched Valentina Tereshkova as the primary girl to fly to outer area. But it took two extra a long time for the Americans to comply with swimsuit. At the time, journalist and icon of the feminist motion Gloria Steinem had an ABC interview sequence, referred to as ‘In Conversation with…” As part of that program she interviewed Sally Ride – and we found the tape in Smith College’s archive devoted to the life and work of Steinem – The Gloria Steinem Papers, a part of the Sophia Smith Collection.

Now on the time of this interview, so far as the general public – and it seems the press – have been involved, area was for clean-cut alpha males with names like Buzz. Then Sally Ride got here alongside.

Additional assist from PRX and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Episode 58

Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

air day: 2016-02-16

“Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” – Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as instructed to Mike Wallace

If you’ve ever been to Illinois, you’ll know all concerning the defining options of its panorama – particularly, that it’s just about flat. But architect Frank Lloyd Wright did one thing new when he made buildings that one way or the other grew to become one with the prairie. Long, low traces, and interiors that introduced the sunshine and area of the skin in. With the identical method, he constructed properties within the woods round waterfalls, on excessive bluffs that take within the stretch and area of the land under. If you’ve ever visited one in all his homes, you’ll understand how they handle to make you perceive extra about precisely the place you reside.

As a part of our particular sequence, The Experimenters, the place we’re uncovering interviews with the icons of science, know-how, and innovation, we discovered this 1957 interview with Frank Lloyd Wright. It’s a part of a set on the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas at Austin celebrating The Mike Wallace Interview, a TV program that ran again within the late ‘50s. Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs and elegance appear very good, very clear now, however on the time, he was a controversial character. And like most well-known architects, his work was as a lot hated as revered. And that’s what Mike Wallace needed to speak about.

Here’s the tape.

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Episode 59

Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

air day: 2016-03-01

“”Everything in my thoughts works like a search engine set for the picture perform.”” – Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral historical past at Colorado State University

Hear extra interview outtakes and study extra about Temple Grandin @ http://blankonblank.org/temple-grandin

You’ve most likely heard the story that Einstein – whose identify is synonymous with genius – didn’t appear destined for a lot when he was a small little one. He was years behind different youngsters when it got here to studying to speak, he did horribly at school. It appears that Einstein’s mind simply labored in a different way than most different folks’s. And many individuals lately are saying that Einstein was most likely autistic – one in all them is Temple Grandin.

Temple Grandin is a professor of animal sciences who’s labored within the meat business to invent kinder methods to steer cattle to slaughter. She’s additionally autistic – the high-functioning model referred to as Asperger’s Syndrome. Autism, in case you don’t know, is a mind dysfunction that tends to have an effect on folks’s social abilities, like the flexibility to learn facial expressions and physique language, however it will possibly additionally imply extraordinary expertise in math, music and the visible arts.

Temple Grandin has grow to be one thing of a star of autism. She’s written books, given TED talks, and he or she’s been around the globe to talk on the topic. Claire Danes has even performed her in a film about her life.

As a part of our particular sequence, The Experimenters–where we uncover interviews with the icons of science, know-how, and innovation…– we discovered this interview within the holdings of Colorado State University, the place Temple teaches. In this dialog, Temple’s at her greatest, explaining for the remainder of us what it’s actually wish to have an autistic mind and the way Einstein’s not the one genius who may have been dismissed for being totally different.

Additional assist from PRX and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Episode 60

Jane Goodall on Instinct

air day: 2016-03-11

“Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan”
– Jane Goodall, as instructed to Ira Flatow in 2002

Hear extra interview outtakes and study extra about Jane Goodall http://blankonblank.org/jane-goodall

Jane Goodall is so good, so good, it’s intimidating. She looks as if nearly a form of mythic determine. She made groundbreaking discoveries concerning the habits of chimpanzees when she was solely in her 20s, and with none formal coaching or diploma. Even now, she’s at all times on the go, talking up for the rights of animals, campaigning for conservation, and dealing slavishly on her environmental schooling program. She’s a task mannequin for younger women to get into science. With all that, it’s typically been laborious for me to think about her as one in all us atypical people.

Which is why this interview we got here throughout by veteran public radio science journalist Ira Flatow was simply so nice. Ira talked with Jane Goodall for his long-running Science Friday program again in 2002, and in that dialog, you possibly can hear a Jane who’s full of formidable conviction, sure – however she’s additionally humble, susceptible and better of all even really enjoyable.

This is one other episode from our particular sequence, The Experimenters, the place we uncover interviews with the icons of science, know-how, and innovation.

Support for this sequence comes from PRX and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Episode 61

Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code

air day: 2016-03-15

“I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last” – Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral historical past on the British Library

Computers had their begin as a solution to flip over the tedium of sophisticated, repetitive, mathematical calculations to another person. Sort of the, um, ‘women’s work’ of arithmetic and actually ladies have been usually those doing the grunt work within the days creating the primary computer systems and the code-writing that will grow to be pc software program. They simply didn’t are inclined to get the credit score. As a younger girl in 1950’s Britain with a expertise for math, Stephanie Shirley, discovered herself in an ever-evolving discipline of data know-how – constructing computer systems and writing code, working in locations the place the world’s first programmable digital pc was invented, thrilling stuff. But at work, she discovered she was usually the one girl within the room. “When I first walked in there, about 200, you know, handsome, intelligent men turned round and looked at this new female that had sort of turned up. [laughs] So, and that, you know, took, it was, it was quite, you know, you were… It was almost scary to go into a big place like that, 100, not quite 100 per cent but ninety-nine per cent men.” – Shirley stated.

And this had its limitations. So she determined to strike out on her personal and by doing so she got here up with a complete new solution to work within the computing business – a method that allowed ladies to thrive. As a part of our particular sequence, The Experimenters — uncovering interviews with the icons of science, know-how, and innovation — we discovered this interview with British IT pioneer and businesswoman Stephanie Shirley within the British Library’s assortment of Oral Histories. She explains how from the beginning, her home-based pc software program firm was uniquely women-friendly:

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Episode 62

Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life

air day: 2016-03-22

“I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper.”
– Buckminster Fuller in 1965, as instructed to Studs Terkel

Buckminster Fuller was kicked out of school, and booted by Harvard not as soon as, however twice. As a younger man attempting out jobs, he greatest preferred working along with his palms, and was extra at house with mill staff, meat-packers and sailors, than professors. Fuller’s most well-known for his Geodesic Dome – assume Disney’s Epcot Center. You may name him an inventor-philospher-engineer-architect-artist – however he was exterior class, actually – and he needed to ‘do a lot with a little.’ All to make the world a better place. The tape we found told us he also had his own deeper, more personal reasons for what he did. Fuller spoke with Studs Terkel for Studs’ Chicago radio present twice. Once in studio in 1970, and the opposite 5 years earlier. That’s when he and Studs rode round in a station wagon by means of the quickly gentrifiying neighborhood Lincoln Park – see in case you can hear the hum of the transferring automotive.

A dialog with Fuller was like operating by means of a hedge maze – he spoke in fragments, these large concepts endlessly across the nook from others, heat and charismatic the entire method. Studs is firmly there, each holding the reigns and alongside for the journey – addressing him with all due respect. But as you’ll hear, Buckminster Fuller wasn’t too large on formalities. Support for this sequence comes from PRX and The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Episode 63

Richard Feynman on What It Means

air day: 2016-03-25

“The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything.” – Richard Feynman in 1966

Richard Feynman sat down for a number of hours of interviews in Altadena, California in June 1966. The conversations lined his life, ideas on physics, and extra. We uncovered this oral historical past on the American Institute of Physics.

Episode 64

Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

air day: 2016-03-29

“A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong” – Carl Sagan on October four, 1985, as instructed to Studs Terkel.

We discovered this dialog between Studs Terkel and Carl Sagan within the WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive. Following “Contact,” the e-book he wrote with spouse Ann Druyan – and the main movement image that adopted it — Carl Sagan spoke with Studs all about our persevering with seek for clever life on the market, together with how, for a very long time, Hollywood simply obtained it flawed. Here’s the tape.

Episode 65

Martin Scorsese on Framing

air day: 2016-04-12

“Sometimes when it all comes together … you become the film you’re making.” – Martin Scorsese in 1990, as instructed to T.J. English.

In this new episode we’ve a beforehand unheard dialog with legendary director, Martin Scorsese, on how he is framed his films and his life. The early foray into making a film as a child, toying with turning into a priest, and the place his mother and father match into all this. And would not you wish to see a Scorsese Western? Enjoy!

Episode 66

Patti Smith in 1976 on Getting Bleeped

air day: 2016-04-26

“When people say fuckin‘ shit, they don‘t think of a big turd, or two people makin‘ it anymore” – Patti Smith in May 1976, as instructed to Mick Gold

In the spring of 1976, Patti Smith made her debut in London. She wasn’t even 30, but. We’re going inside her resort, the Portobello, a Bohemian place standard with the style biz and musicians. Several journalists are contained in the room asking Patti questions. For practically two hours Patti holds courtroom on her love of the French poet Rimbuad that spawned her inventive path whereas nonetheless a younger girl in New Jersey, her publicized relationship with Bob Dylan as soon as she arrived on the scene, and her potential to dip into her unconscious just about anytime she needed to. It’s classic Patti Smith, unvarnished and unfiltered. We get to be flies on the wall that day.

Episode 67

Cher on Kitsch

air day: 2016-05-10

“I’m a cookie-decorating mother. I don’t bake them. I embellish them.“ – Cher in 1999, as instructed to Benjamin Svetkey.

On a spring afternoon, Svetkey drove to Cher’s home in Malibu for an interview. Her assistant led him as much as her bed room the place she was wearing leopard print and resting on a leopard print bedspread. Cher was open, trustworthy, and forthcoming concerning the ups and downs of fame, being a mother, her homosexual following, the camp factor of her persona, and the way Sonny Bono modified her life. It’s classic Cher. Enjoy.

Episode 68

Rod Serling on Kamikazes

air day: 2016-05-24

”The most unfettered creativeness belongs to younger folks, and so they don’t stroll by means of life; they fly” – Rod Serling in 1963.

The Twilight Zone was mesmerizing audiences throughout the U.S. when he was interviewed for Australian radio by Binny Lum. We got here throughout this dialog in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive and it is a type of pleasant again and forths that makes you cease and pay attention. Serling jumps into the dialog, there’s little apprehension, and immediately he takes you on a journey fascinated with your personal previous and childhood, and the last word realization that “you simply cannot go home again.”

Episode 69

Frank Zappa on Fads

air day: 2016-06-07

“I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do” – Frank Zappa on June 6, 1971, as instructed to Howard Smith.

Frank Zappa had just a few opinions. Surly? Matter-of-fact? Misunderstood? We’ll allow you to determine as we current this not often heard
interview with Zappa recorded in his resort room. Zappa has just a few issues to say about ladies’s lib (“a fad”), on LA vs “depressing” New York, why America is a nation of individuals being instructed what to do, and why ladies could not hack it in his band. Sit again and luxuriate in.

Episode 70

Bob Dylan at 20 on Freak Shows

air day: 2016-06-28

“I’m never going to become rich and famous” – Bob Dylan in 1962.

This interview initially aired on WBAI FM in New York City in February of 1962. Dylan was 20 on the time and it was his first look on the Folksingers Choice radio present. This recording was uncovered from the Pacifica Radio Archives. After the animated part of this episode is an excerpt of Dylan speaking about his songwriting course of from one other of Pacifica’s interviews, which was additionally recorded in 1962.

Episode 71

Nora Ephron on Crazy Salad

air day: 2016-07-12

“It’s okay being a girl now. I prefer it. Try it a while.” – Nora Ephron.

This interview by Studs Terkel with Nora Ephron was recorded on July 28, 1975 and comes from the outstanding WFMT Studs Terkel Radio Archive.

Episode 72

Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols

air day: 2016-07-26

“I have never used my body. I have played roles where the legs were used and the body was used but in life, I have never done that” – Marlene Dietrich.

Interview by Jay Kent Hackleman recorded in 1969 for Houston radio station, KHRH. Dietrich was in midst of one in all her many cabaret excursions. “Ms. Dietrich agreed to our interview on the condition that it could be done in a dressing room at the theater,” Hackleman recalled. “I certainly had no problem with that and she gave the entire interview reclining on a chaise longue and somehow that seemed absolutely appropriate.” Hackleman’s granddaughter, Liss LaFleur, graciously allowed us to carry this misplaced tape to life.

Episode 73

Aldous Huxley on Technodictators

air day: 2016-09-13

“If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled” – Aldous Huxley.

In this outstanding interview, Huxley foretells a future when telegenic presidential hopefuls use tv to rise to energy, know-how takes over, medicine seize maintain, and frightful dictatorships rule us all. The interview initially aired on Wallace’s tv present, The Mike Wallace Interview, on May 18, 1958. Aldous Huxley, the creator of Brave New World, was 63 when he sat down for this interview. He died in 1963.

Episode 74

Stevie Wonder on Keys of Life

air day: 2016-09-27

“If God did not need me to sing it, he would not have given me the expertise to do it“ – Stevie Wonder in 2005.

Barney Hoskyns recorded this interview with Stevie Wonder on March 26, 2005.

Episode 75

Ronald Reagan on Oatmeal Meat

air day: 2016-10-11

“How did I recover from being poor? I obtained a job as a sports activities announcer and it led to the whole lot else.“ – Ronald Reagan.

Interview by Bill Moyers recorded on April 30, 1979 – six months earlier than Reagan introduced his run for president and practically two years earlier than he was sworn into workplace because the 40th President of the United States. This interview involves us from WNET and Bill Moyers Journal.

Episode 76

Jimmy Carter on Power and God

air day: 2016-11-01

“Although I’ve prayed an excellent bit, and do, I’ve by no means requested God to let me be President.“

This dialog was recorded on May 6, 1976, six months earlier than Jimmy Carter was elected President and involves us from WNET and Bill Moyers Journal.

Episode 77

Leonard Cohen on Moonlight

air day: 2016-11-15

“I don’t really feel any compulsion simply to face below the highlight evening after evening until I’ve one thing to say“

This interview by Kathleen Kendel was recorded on December four, 1974 when Leonard Cohen appeared on WBAI FM in New York City. We uncovered this interview within the Pacifica Radio Archives.

Episode 78

Francis Ford Coppola on Solitude

air day: 2016-11-29

”Death is on the again of everybody’s minds whether or not they wish to admit it or not.”

This interview was recorded on July 28, 1996 when Francis Ford Coppola was selling the movie, Jack, starring Robin Williams.

Episode 79

Stephen King on Childhood

air day: 2016-12-13

“We assume another way as youngsters. We are inclined to assume round corners as a substitute of in straight traces.“

Conversation recorded on October 22, 1989 and initially aired on the Public Radio Book Show. It involves us courtesy of WAMC Northeast Public Radio and the New York State Writers Institute.

Episode 80

Oliver Sacks on Ripe Bananas

air day: 2017-01-24

”I’m very all in favour of how folks adapt to extremes”

This interview was recorded on July 28, 1996 for the Cover-to-Cover radio present on WGBH-FM in Boston.