Weekend was a MPR News series that ran in the 1980s. It provided various reports and interviews.
March 14, 1981 - National Public Radio President Frank Mankiewicz and Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling discuss public radio, funding cuts, and recessions proposed by the Reagan administration, and what the future may hold for public broadcasting on this call-in program.
April 4, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, an interview and reading with writer and artist George Hitchcock. New Letters on the Air is an audio literary magazine exploring the works of American writers and comes from New Letters magazine, a literary quarterly of fine writing published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
April 11, 1981 - Peter G. Peterson, former United States secretary of commerce speaking at the Women's Economic Roundtable. Peterson’s address is on the Reagan consensus.
June 27, 1981 - MPR’s Bob Aronson spoofs game analysis of the Minnesota Twins taking the “construction” field for some truly unique MLB experiences. [This one is for all the Metrodome lovers out there]
July 18, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Joyce Bichler, a survivor of DES cancer and author of the book "DES Daughter: The Joyce Bichler Story,” about Diethylstilbestrol (DES), what it was prescribed for, and the effects on children whose mothers used the drug during pregnancy. Bichler also answers listener questions. Diethylstilbestrol (DES) is a synthetic form of the hormone estrogen that was prescribed to pregnant women between 1940 and 1971 to prevent miscarriage, premature labor, and related complications of pregnancy.
August 1, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Bob Potter talks with classical pianist Jeffrey Siegel about his work, composition, public enjoyment of classical music, and “Keyboard Conversation” program at Summerfest. Siegel also answers listener questions.
August 22, 1981 - Maggie Arzdorf-Schubbe, director of the Minnesota Battered Women Program, and Catherine Settanni, a member of Women Against Women Against Women, discuss Women Against Violence Against Women and the annual "Take Back the Night" march in Minneapolis.
September 5, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR host and moderator Lee Axdahl speaks with former U.S. senator Eugene McCarthy, who speaks about his possible candidacy for United States Senate in 1982 and other issues.
September 19, 1981 - Local commentator Bruce Benidt wonders on the term “fall color” and what it means to the farmer.
October 3, 1981 - Bruce Benidt, local commentator and educator at Mankato State, looks at the mindsets of Minnesota students entering college. To Benidt, it is both enlightening and humorous.