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In the early 1970\\u2019s, radio producer and author Studs Terkel wrote a book called Working. He went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The book became a bestseller and even inspired a Broadway musical. Working\\xa0struck a nerve, because it elevated the stories of ordinary people and their daily lives. Studs celebrated the un-celebrated.

Radio Diaries and their partner\\xa0Project&\\xa0were given exclusive access to these recordings, which were boxed up and stored away after the book was published. Stories of a private investigator, a union worker, a telephone operator, a a hotel piano player, and more.

As The Kitchen Sisters warm up for our new series \\u201cThe Keepers,\\u201d stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, historians, collectors, curators \\u2014keepers of the culture\\u2014we share these stories gathered by the ultimate Keeper \\u2014Studs Terkel.