Options was a 1970s-1980s National Public Radio program series broadcast on MPR that highlighted writers via speeches, interviews, and profiles.
February 12, 1979 - On this Options program, a piece for Black History Month on Frederick Douglas.
March 20, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part one highlights Woolf. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 21, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part two highlights Browning.
March 22, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part three highlights Alcott.
March 23, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part four highlights Bronte.
March 27, 1979 - On this Options program, author N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, describes and discusses his interest in the Native American oral traditions.
May 22, 1979 - Alan Dundes, professor of folklore at the University of California at Berkley, speaks about the importance of folklore and how it is a scholarly discipline.
August 9, 1979 - Brian Jenkins, of the Rand Corporation and author of International Terrorism; a New Mode of Conflict, speaks on the book subject at an Iowa State University symposium on "Humankind in the 1980s."
January 25, 1981 - This portion of "Options" contains profiles of two creative men: the architect, master planner, and holistic builder Paolo Soleri; and the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.