![]() ![]() ![]() "They have a habit of confiding in that person because they feel that they'll never see the person again." "Many people have problems, but oftentimes it's good to know they can talk to someone who's a total stranger to them," she said. Most of Terkel's interviews were planned well in advance, but his conversation with Moog was a moment of serendipity that arrived when he called for an early morning ride to the airport in Youngstown, Ohio. This year, producers Joe Richman of Radio Diaries and Jane Saks of Project& were given access to all the original raw field interviews - most of which have never before been heard publicly.Īmong them is an unexpected interview with Helen Moog, a taxi driver. When it was published in 1974 it became a best-seller - something unprecedented for an oral history collection.īut after the book came out, the interview cassettes were packed away in boxes and stored in Terkel's home office. The result was Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do. He collected more than 130 conversations with a variety of people, including a waitress, a car parker, a jockey, a baseball player, a farm worker, a press agent and a sports team owner. ![]() In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country with a tape recorder, interviewing people about their jobs. ![]()
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