A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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September 3, 1981 - A new show opening at the Guthrie Theater is a dramatization of a series of novels based on Appalachian folk tales, with actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. They were part of Tyrone Guthrie's original repertory company. They talk with Nancy Fushan about the play "Foxfire."
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 12, 1981 - Don Hill of the Minnesota Education Association takes live listener questions on education, teacher strikes, and other issues, on "weekend", hosted by Lee Axdahl.
September 19, 1981 - United States Senate candidate Mark Dayton discusses his candidacy in the DFL party, his recent attacks on Senator Dave Durenberger's record on social security, and other issues on this live call-in program.
September 24, 1981 - MPR’s Dick Daly reports on seminar looking at possible use of the vast peat moss found on Minnesota lands as a energy source. Daly interviews local political figures about the logistics.
October 1, 1981 - National Town Meeting talks about the great American novel with authors Francine Gray and Larry McMurtry.
October 7, 1981 - 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Czeslaw Milosz, born in Poland but now living and teaching in the United States, talks about his poetry, the United States, his native country of Poland, and writing in this interview with MPR's Nancy Fushan.
October 7, 1981 - Larry Christensen of the Pollution Control Agency speaks and answers live listener questions on the topic of hazardous waste and how to handle it.
October 13, 1981 - Dr. Thomas Pearsall of the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota answers live listener questions on language use, the history of English language, and changes in the way people write and speak on this call-in program with Bob Potter.
October 14, 1981 - Don Fraser, Minneapolis mayor, speaking at Macalester College on the economic, military and defense policies of the Reagan administration. Program includes a brief introductory report from MPR’s Bob Potter.