A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 7, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews artist Harmony Hammond. Hammond lived in the Twin Cities while going to school in the 1960s. She left Minnesota for New York where she helped to create Heresies, a women's art collective. During the transition, her art changed course. Hammond prefers to describe herself as a feminist artist struggling to find herself. The results of that struggle are on view at the WARM and Glen Hanson's galleries in downtown Minneapolis.
March 7, 1981 - This week's edition of New Letters on the Air features a writer from Oberlin College, David Young. Hosted by Elbert Bell.
March 7, 1981 - Playwright Corinne Jacker discusses her play, "Bits and Pieces" performed by the At Random company at the Hennepin Center for the Arts, as well as a new play, "Domestic Issues", which will be read at the Playwrights' Center on Sunday evening.
March 7, 1981 - In public and with his friends Coleman was renowned for his great with and temper. But there was another side to Coleman...a wistful side. It was learned a few weeks ago that Coleman, a democrat, and senator Jim Ulland of Duluth, a republican, played a game for years...Coleman was a leader in Queen Victoria's regiment in the late 1800s; Ulland was a young lieutenant learning the ropes. Despite the political clashes over taxes, the stadium, the economy and other controversial issues at the Minnesota legislature - the two senators imagined themselves in another time.
March 7, 1981 - Bob Potter interviewing along with listener call in on "Weekend". University of Minnesota futurist Arthur Harkins answers live listener questions on communications in the future.
March 9, 1981 - Luanne Nyberg, former director of the Minnesota Recipients Alliance, addresses images, stereotypes, and second hand accounts of individuals receiving welfare benefits. Background on the welfare system in Minnesota is provided by Mary Bremer, information officer for the Minnesota Department of Public Welfare in St. Paul.
March 10, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. This collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's recounts the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - James Callaghan, former British prime minister, speaking at the Carlson Lecture Series, held at University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Callaghan’s address was on his late friend, Hubert Humphrey, and their similar politics. Callaghan was born in 1912. He entered the British Civil Service in 1929 as a tax officer. He was elected to Parliament in 1945 as a Labor Party member, and he has held a Parliamentary seat for 36 years. Callaghan has also served as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and he played a key role in negotiating Britain's membership in the Common Market. He was elected Prime Minister in 1976. After leaving that office, he was reelected leader of Britain's Labor Party. He stepped down from that role in 1980.
March 11, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. Unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project are the basis for this program of stories about union organizing, including one protesting hair bobbing.This program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships, and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
March 12, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists and ambulance drivers.