Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar. The entire program provides a brief history of Blacks in the United States, highlighting the Civil Rights movement.
John C. Lilly (1915 - 2001), author, physicist, neuroscientist and psychonaut, and Antonietta "Toni" Lilly, author and artist, deliver a talk on communication between terrestrial animals and sea animals (particularly man and dolphin). The lecture features a live dolphin with whom the Lillys demonstrate some of their theories about animal consciousness.
Charles Ruas discusses Gertrude Stein with Janet Hobhouse, author of a 1976 biography of Stein entitled "Everybody Who Was Anybody", recorded May 11, 1976. Hobhouse discusses the influence of automatic writing on Gertrude Stein's work and about the origins of her novel The Making of Americans.
Dramatic readings from the memoirs of five anti-Tsarist anarchist women from the populist revolutionary movement of 1870's and 1880's in TSarist Russia. Includes interviews with Barbara Engel and Clifford Rosenthal, translators and editors of the book "Five sisters: women against the Tsar" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1975).
Barbara Cady interviews Betty Friedan, feminist and author, about her new book, It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement (New York: Random House, 1976).
Nanette Rainone interviews two women authors about their experiences, women's roles and the Women's movement. They are Jane Lazarre, author of "The Mother Knot" (McGraw Hill), a personal account of pregnancy and childrearing; and Rayna Reiter, editor of "Toward an Anthropology of Women."
Jena Blumenfield speaks with feminist film critic Marjorie Rosen, author of "Popcorn Venus: women, movies and the American Dream" (New York: McCann and Geoghegan, 1973).
Viv Sutherland talks with Professor Sarah B. Pomeroy, associate professor in the Department of Classics at Hunter College in New York and author of "Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity" (Schocken Books), on the status of women in ancient Greece and Rome.
Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes reads the words of the poetess Elinor Wylie. In this program she is remembered, in the words of friends and associates, tracing her life story, and reflected in her own writings. Members of the cast are Risha Meledandri, Ira Weitzman, Richard Rosenblum, Manya La Bruja, and Judy Sherman.