About this season
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.
Episodes (4)
101. Episode #101: Ed Sadlowski: A Message to Pittsburgh
Aired 7 January 1975 • 30 min
Studs 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.
104. Episode #104: Ray Bradbury: The Fantasy Maker
Aired 28 January 1975 • 30 min
The 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, religion and magic.
108. Episode #108: Angela Davis: A Closer Look
Aired 25 February 1975 • 30 min
Maya 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 the women’s movement.
119. Episode #119: Conversation with a Native Son
Aired 13 May 1975 • 30 min
Novelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.