Episode

Minority reaction to the Briggs initiative / produced by Helene Rosenbluth

Helene Rosenbluth interviews Black and Jewish representatives of groups who are fighting the anti-gay Briggs Initiative, which would have prohibited hiring and required the dismissal of any teacher who engaged in homosexual activity or advocated for gay civil rights. The interviewees are Henry Dodson of the NAACP, Rabbi Allen I.

On the left / Malvina Reynolds interviewed by Dorothy Healey

Dorothy Healey interviews Malvina Reynolds at KPFK. They talk about communicating with people of all ages, the motivation for Malvina's life, her family, the movement against nuclear power, and the basis for her political beliefs. Healey relates her history of getting out of jail in Los Angeles, meeting Malvina, and labor struggles.

Who we are / by Kate Millett ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.

Kate Millett, lesbian-feminist, sculptor and author of Sexual Politics, gives a brief history of the gay movement during this address at the Gay Academic Union national conference in November 1978. Millett was the keynote speaker at the conference.

Up against the clock : career women speak out about the choice to have children / Norma Wikler interviewed by Ruth Ziony

Norma Wikler (1942-2002) is interviewed about her new book by Ruth Ziony. The title of the book is Up against the clock : career women speak on the choice to have children, co-authored with Marilyn Fabe (New York: Random House, 1979). The book deals with women over the age of thirty-five opting to have children and the dilemma of having a child and a demanding career.

So you've heard it before / produced by Susan Anderson and Pearl Skotnes.

This is the story of South African Black women under apartheid, portrayed through women's poetry, writing and music.

Mammography, X-rays, and more cancer / Irwin Bross ; interviewed by Ida Honorof.

Ida Honorof interviews Dr. Irwin Bross, Director of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research, at his home in Eggersville, NY.

Incest / produced by Pearl Skotnes.

Interview with Louise Armstrong, author of Kiss Daddy Goodnight, A Speak-Out on Incest (New York: Harcourt Books, 1978). Armstrong discusses the experiences that lead her to write the book, and some of the myths and facts surrounding incest.

The Photographer as discoverer : Dorothea Lange / Milton Meltzer interviewed by Susan Anderson.

Susan Anderson interviews Milton Meltzer, writer and historian, about his book, "A photographer's life," a biography of the great American photographer Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965). Meltzer describes the genesis behind much of her work as a photographer of migrant labor communities, her travels around the United States, and her writing, which often accompanied her photographs.

Nuclear madness / by Helen Caldicott

Dr. Helen Caldicott, author of "Nuclear madness: what you should do", speaks on the nuclear war possibilities of the past (Cuban missile crisis) and present.

European independent films / Eliane Stutterheim interviewed by Claudia Fonda-Bonardi.

Claudia Fonda-Bonardi interviews Eliane Stutterheim, a member of Filmkollektiv-Zurich, about her film, The Indians Are Still Far Away (Les indiens sont encore loin, 1977), the financing of independent film production in Western Europe, distribution, the operations of her Swiss production collective, and alternative media networks in Europe. Produced by Claudia Fonda-Bonardi.

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