Assignment America
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.
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- Ep 101
101.Episode #101: Ed Sadlowski: A Message to Pittsburgh
07-01-197530mStuds Terkel interviewed 36 year old Sadlowski, director of the largest district of the United Steelworkers of America Union and the nation’s newest spokesman for union democracy.
- Ep 104
104.Episode #104: Ray Bradbury: The Fantasy Maker
28-01-197530mThe man often considered the best living science-fiction writer was interviewed by Maya Angelou with talk centering on abstract concepts of the relationship between science, religi...
- Ep 108
108.Episode #108: Angela Davis: A Closer Look
25-02-197530mMaya Angelou visited controversial black radical and former professor Angela Davis at her home, and discussed her childhood, her time in prison and the role of the black woman in t...
- Ep 119
119.Episode #119: Conversation with a Native Son
13-05-197530mNovelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.
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