Saturday coffee.
Happy Birthday Studs.
Tomorrow, May 16th, is Studs Terkel’s 98th birthday. Studs died in 2008.
Tonight on his radio station, WFMT, his old colleague, Sydney Lewis, has put together a program,Working With Studs.
When I arrived in Chicago in 1973 there were two radio programs that were required listening and both were on WFMT, the classical music station. Ironically, neither program involved classical music.
In the morning, every day, Studs would do a one hour mostly interview show. Although there was rarely an interview. It was definitely a conversation and often Studs was more interesting than the person he was interviewing.
On Saturday nights, Anne and I would listen, often in the dark, to the Midnight Special, a mostly folk music program with some British comedy recordings thrown in. We never understood what was funny about the British comedy bits, even on those rare occasions when we understood what they were saying.
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