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The complete audio documentary as broadcast by NPR, plus exclusive bonus interviews and commentary.
In the early 1970’s, author and radio host Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result was the bestselling book Working. The great interviewer of his day, Terkel celebrated the uncelebrated, and Working elevated the stories of ordinary people and their daily lives.
For over four decades, the Working tapes were packed away in Terkel's home office and remained unheard—until now. Partnering with the Chicago History Museum and the Studs Terkel Archives, Project& was given exclusive access to the original recordings and spent a year working with Radio Diaries preparing them for the world to hear as part of the national multimedia initiative, Working in America. The result is a stunning audio documentary that captures the voices of Americans from vastly different backgrounds, each reflecting on the rewards, the challenges, and the often surprising value of work in their lives. Four decades later, we hear from some of these same people as they reflect on their original interviews—and on the startling changes in their lives since.
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About Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel (1912—2008) won the Pulitzer prize in 1985 for his interviews with ordinary people in such books as American Dreams: Lost and Found; Working; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; and Division Street: America Giants of Jazz. Often called an oral historian, he preferred to be known for playing music on the radio. Nevertheless, he received lifetime achievement awards from the National Book Critics Circle in 2004 and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2006, and he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was awarded a Presidential National Humanities Medal. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934. He was an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a radio commentator, and a television emcee, and he traveled all over the world doing on-the-spot interviews. He also hosted a daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago that was syndicated throughout the country.
About Joe Richman
Joe Richman is an award-winning producer and reporter. He is also the founder and executive producer of Radio Diaries, and he teaches radio documentary at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York.