Since graduating from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934, Studs Terkel has been a civil service employe, stage, radio, and movie actor, playwright, jazz columnist, disc jockey, panel moderator, lecturer, film narrator, music festival host, radio news commentator and sportcaster, network television pewrsonality, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. For over 35 years he has been heard on Chicago's fine arts radio station, WFMT, where each weekday morning he hosts a nationally syndicated program, "The Studs Terkel Show." The idea behind "The Studs Terkel Show" is that the hour belongs to Studs. He comments: "It's as though I make the hour. It's my delight to read a folk story, or play a jazz record, or interview a well-known personality or a school teacher, or just atlk for an hour, depending on how I feel." The format of this Peabody Award-winning program is indeed eclectic, encompassing interviews, discussions, reading from litterature, musical and dramatic presentations, and documentaries. Memorable interviewees have included: Tennessee Williams, Buchminster Fuller, Lilly Tomlin, Birgit Nilsson, Jimmy and Roselyn Carter, Aaron Copland, Harrisson Slisbury, Arthur Miller, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, James Baldwin, Woody Allen, Bob Woodward, and Maggie Kuhn. Terkel's exceptional skill as a radio interviewer has led to the publication of eight books: Division Street: America Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Working: People talking About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times, American Dreams: Lost and Found, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II(For which he won the Pulitzer Prize), Chicago, and The Great Divide, published in the autumn of 1988. His most recent book Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession was published in 1992, consist of interviews with nearly 100 people regarding their attitudes toward race. Terkel's talent for exploring life has brought him numerous acolades. His first book, an introduction to American Jazz, Giants of Jazz(1957), was highly praised by The New York Times and Saturday Review. Subsequent books have been universally well received, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the Irita Van Doren Book Award, and two National Book Award nominations, and he has been cited by the Freinds oflitterature for his "unique contribution to the cultural life of Chicago." His radio programs have been honored with three Ohio State Awards, The Major Armstrong Award, the Prix Italia, and the prestigious Peabody Award for Excellence in broadcasting.