Options was a 1970s-1980s National Public Radio program series broadcast on MPR that highlighted writers via speeches, interviews, and profiles.
August 8, 1977 - In November 1975, the giant ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald plunged to the bottom of Lake Superior during a storm. The marine board of investigation determined that the Fitzgerald's hatches failed, and the ship sank in a few seconds.
December 20, 1977 - On this Options program, a rare interview with Henry Miller, author of Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn, Black Spring, and other controversial works of his time. Miller discusses his writing career with NPR's Connie Goldman.
December 26, 1977 - On this Options program, a rare interview with Henry Miller, author of Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn, Black Spring, and other controversial works of his time. Miller discusses his writing career with NPR's Connie Goldman.
January 19, 1978 - NPR’s Mike Waters presents an Options program of the poetry of Dylan Thomas.
February 15, 1978 - On this Options program, selected readings demonstrate the broad historical and contemporary range of Black literature and authors, in honor of Black History Month. Includes work featured by authors Dorothy West, Frank Yerby, Langston Hughes, Chester Himes, and Ted Poston.
August 8, 1978 - On this Options program, biologist Barry Commoner speaks on solar energy.
August 9, 1978 - On this Options program, journalist I. F. Stone speaks in Iowa on the subject of President Jimmy Carter. Stone talks about Carter in the White House…the pros and cons.
November 20, 1978 - A Midday broadcast of American feminist writer Betty Friedan on Options.
December 18, 1978 - On this Options program, Barbara Tuchman, author of A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, speaks with Lynn Mitchell about the reality of the 14th century.
December 22, 1978 - On this Options program, Connie Goldman talks with various playwrights who tell her how they write plays.