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).