A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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October 17, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on on Jim Stowell's play, Desperados. Stowell is the director of the Palace Theater, where the play is being performed.
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October 18, 1980 - Twin cities media consultants D.J. Leary and Dan Cohen discuss the campaign media blitz beginning prior to election day, with live listener participation.
October 20, 1980 - Willard Van Dyke is one of America's most respected documentary photographers and filmmakers. He had a show at St. Paul's Film In The Cities and was in town for the opening. He spoke with Nancy Fushan about his work.
October 20, 1980 - University of Minnesota music professor Johannes Reidel talks with Nancy Fushan about political songs of Weimar Republic Germany in the 1920's.
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October 25, 1980 - Federal District Court Judge Miles Lord, a controversial figure in Minnesota politics and jurisprudence, answers listener questions on his career as a judge, the role of the courts, and his political and judicial philosophy.
October 27, 1980 - Carole Simpson, NBC News correspondent, speaking at the Freedom Fund banquet of the Duluth Branch NAACP at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth. Simpson shares personal insight into the career of a successful Black American. Simpson's Capitol Hill assignments have included the environment, education, welfare, women's rights, transportation, housing and child care - what she describes as "a real potpourri of people issues".
October 27, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with American writer Marisha Chamberlain about Willa, a play about Willa Cather’s life. The play is presented by the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis.