A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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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 This collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's recounts the experiences of immigrants to New York City.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 Unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project are the basis for this program of stories about union organizing, including one protesting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 In unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists and ambulance drivers.
March 13, 1981 - Don W. Larson, senior editor of Corporate Report magazine, speaking in Duluth. Larson’s shares his critical views on business in Minnesota and the United States.
March 13, 1981 - Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, a five-part series. In unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
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.
March 14, 1981 - Readings of the work of various writers focus on fathers.