Ninety-three year old Studs Terkel, America's most eminent oral historian and author of numerous books including Working and the Pullitzer Prize-winning The Good War, graciously allowed Alan Hall to visit him in Chicago in August, despite having only 3 weeks earlier undergone heart surgery, and again in October. They recorded over two hours of interview that touched on Studs' work, his undiminished 'radical conservatism' and his much-missed wife. A radio portrait, called Studs Terkel - The Last Touch, was broadcast on Christmas Eve on Resonance FM and aired by Chicago Public Radio's Re:sound on Saturday 28 January at 2pm. A re-versioning is scheduled for broadcast on ABC Radio National on 24 June 2006.

The Illinois Entertainer called it a "riveting hour-long documentary".