Boing Boing tips us off to this great online repository of television interviews conducted by Mike Wallace in the late 50s. Long form interviews with thoughtful people speaking in full sentences as if there were an intelligent audience listening.  Lots of interesting people to pick from (Eleanor Roosevelt, Orval Faubus, Frank Lloyd Wright, etc), but I especially recommend the Aldous Huxley interview.
(The interviews are all conducted in a haze of Winston cigarette smoke. I’d trade today’s clean screens for that in a heartbeat, if it meant we could get smart news and analysis back on the small screen.)