University of Chicago Roundtable

(1933 - 1955)

University of Chicago Roundtable uses the media of radio as a platform to answer big questions of the day.  Topics include war time politics, civil rights, economics, great literature, psychology, nutrition, and more.

The guests at the round table include a wide variety of intellectuals including senators, journalists, business owners, professors from the University of Chicago and other major universities discuss the topics of the day: 

• Two senators debate on whether President Truman's Civil Rights Program should be adopted which includes making lynching a federal crime and protecting voting rights.
• Explaining what rationing means for housewives, business owners, and more.
• Making housing affordable to everyone.
• How influential are the Labor Unions in American politics?
• The American interests in the Chinese Communist revolution
• What is the current Cancer Research in 1949?
• What is the role of women in the United States in 1952?
• A round table from the Gerontological Society of America meets in St. Louis to discuss aging problem.

The show is a fascinating look at the politics, morals, and current thinking of the era.  Each episode features a great panel with some of the biggest and brightest minds of the time which leads to a great discussion and an even better debate.

For more compelling intellectual listening of the era, see also: America Town Meeting of the Air, Speaking of Liberty American Forum of the Air,and Living in an Atomic Age with British philosopher, Sir Bertrand Russel.