Season 1985 1985

First transmitted in 1985, this documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice of ordinary working Americans.For over 50 years Terkel occupied a regular spot on the American airwaves and television screens. He appeared as a radio soap opera character, was a 1950s television star, was a jazz critic and was a reliable radio host for his daily show, gaining many industry accolades, including the Italia Prize, over the course of his career.

Luck and Flaw, alias Roger Law and Peter Fluck, are the creators of the puppets which form the cast of the award-winning series, Spitting Image. Their style of 3-D caricature is unique, but in essence it is part of a tradition stretching back to James Gillray in the 1780s. Gerald Scarfe, Ralph Steadman, Trog, Steve Bell, and the octogenarian Ralph Sallon of the Mirror are contemporary caricatures whom Luck and Flaw Particularly admire. They talk about the practice and Principle of caricature today and Luck and Flaw also Present the work of some of the great names of caricature history - Low, Grosz, Daumier, Dantan, Cruikshank and Gillray himself, whom they have brought to life in the form of a new puppet.