Studs Terkel's great book of radio interviews -- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do -- has been around for 40 years.Its impact has been huge because it re-invented oral history by celebrating everyday labour and elevating everyone's working life to a shared collective experience we all must, in our own way, negotiate.
Inspired so many years ago by Terkel, The Blather -- instead of pursuing celebrity chit chat (not that the big whigs would talk to us) -- will occasionally share interviews with folk talking about their lives or their workaday week.
'Vox Pop' refers to the Latin proverb, Vox populi, vox Dei which translates as "The voice of the people [is] the voice of God".
Since no one else listens to us peeps nowadays, maybe The Blather should.
The first Blather VOX POP is a chat with Kyle, a geriatric nurse.
(Duration: 11:41 — 12.6 MB) mp3
