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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 4E101
Episode #101: Ed Sadlowski: A Message to Pittsburgh
Air Date: 1975-01-07
Studs Terkel interviewed 36 year old Sadlowski, director of the largest district of the United Steelworkers of Americ...
E104
Episode #104: Ray Bradbury: The Fantasy Maker
Air Date: 1975-01-28
The man often considered the best living science-fiction writer was interviewed by Maya Angelou with talk centering o...
E108
Episode #108: Angela Davis: A Closer Look
Air Date: 1975-02-25
Maya Angelou visited controversial black radical and former professor Angela Davis at her home, and discussed her chi...
E119
Episode #119: Conversation with a Native Son
Air Date: 1975-05-13
Novelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.
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