Voices of our time

Disc 1. Introduction and interviews from the 1950's

Pete Seeger (folk singer, 1955)

Dorothy Parker (author, poet & critic, 1959)

Alan Lomax (folk musicologist, 1959)

Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (historian of philosophy, 1959)

Introduction and interviews from the 1960's

James Baldwin (author, 1961)

Gore Vidal (author, 1961)

Aaron Copland (composer, 1961)

Mahalia Jackson (gospel singer, 1963)

Tennessee Williams (playwright, taped in his suite at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, 1961)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (author, 1964). Disc 2. R. Buckminster Fuller (architect, designer, inventor & philosopher, 1965)

Margaret Mead (anthropologist, circa 1965)

Introduction, three funny men

Woody Allen (filmmaker, taped backstage at Mr. Kelly's, Chicago, 1965)

Zero Mostel (actor, 1961)

Mel Brooks (filmmaker, 1968)

Introduction and interviews from the 1970's

Toni Morrison (author, 1974)

John Henry Faulk (humorist & storyteller, 1971)

Andres Segovia (classical guitarist, 1978)

Daniel Ellsberg (peace activist, 1972).

Disc 3. Dame Margot Fonteyn (prima ballerina, 1979)

Norman Maclean (author, woodsman & teacher, 1976)

Wole Soyinka (playwright, 1979)

Maya Angelou (author & poet, 1970)

Barry Lopez (environmental author, 1979)

Introduction, voices recorded in other places

Jacob Bronowski (scientist, taped in London, 1962)

Simone de Beauvoir (author, taped in her apartment in Paris, 1960)

Kenneth Tynan (critic, taped at his home in London, 1962)

Bertrand Russell (mathematician & philosopher, taped in North Wales at the age of 90 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962). Disc 4. Nadine Gordimer (author, taped in Johannesburg, 1963)

Introduction & interviews from the 1980's

Leonard Bernstein (conductor & composer, 1985)

Garry Wills (historian, 1984)

John Cage (composer, 1982)

Eudora Welty (with Jane Reid Petty; author with actress, 1989)

John Kenneth Galbraith

(economist, 1987)

Dr. Oliver Sacks (neurologist, 1986)

Arthur Miller (playwright, 1987).

Disc 5. Laurie Anderson (performance artist, 1982)

Bob Woodward (journalist, 1987)

David Hockney (visual artist, 1984)

Betty Carter (jazz singer, 1989)

Introduction & interviews from the 1990's

Stephen Jay Gould (evolutionary biologist, 1991)

Bill Moyers (filmmaker & journalist, 1993)

Isabel Allende (author, 1991)

Garrison Keillor (humorist & author, 1997)

Robert Hughes (art historian & critic, 1993)

Robert Altman (director, 1992)

Ralph Ellison (author, 1992)

Calvin Trillin (humorist & author, 1990).