He was also a playwright, a sportscaster, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Studs Terkel was best known as a Chicago radio personality. Today, “Studs Terkel on Life, Faith, and Death.” A contented agnostic, he believed that taking death seriously means taking life seriously.įrom American Public Media, this is Speaking of Faith, public radio’s conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. This hour, we explore the late Studs Terkel’s accumulated wisdom on the big questions of life, loss, and mortality. He was called the man who interviews America, a legendary character. I do believe in this life, and what you do in this life is what it’s all about. I, myself, don’t believe in any afterlife. You know what an agnostic is, don’t you? A cowardly atheist. STUDS TERKEL: I happen to be an agnostic. A lifelong agnostic, Studs Terkel also shared his thoughts on religion as he’d observed it in his conversation partners, in our culture, and in his own encounters with loss and mortality. I sat down with Studs Terkel at his Chicago home a few years ago and drew out his wisdom and warmth on large existential themes of life and death. Today, we remember legendary interviewer Studs Terkel, who chronicled decades of ordinary life and tumultuous change in American culture, until his recent passing at the age of 96. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: I’m Krista Tippett.
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