A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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January 14, 1981 - Resources consultant William Thomas discusses water and its allocation.
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January 15, 1981 - Vice President Walter Mondale gives a farewell address before the Minnesota Legislature. Following speech, a rebroadcast of a previous news conference from the day.
January 17, 1981 - On this edition of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, James McConkey reads from his novel The Treehouse Confessions, published by Dutton.
January 17, 1981 - Richard Hoelscher, Director of Member Services of the Automobile Club of Minneapolis in a listener call-in on caring for your automobile.
January 18, 1981 - An examination of the life of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, in commemoration of his birthday.
January 19, 1981 - Twin Cities film critic Phil Anderson interviews film director Joseph Mankiewicz Anderson, who discusses his work and his attitudes towards films. Mankiewicz attended the Minneapolis Film Festival, which featured a retrospective of Mankiewicz films.
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January 22, 1981 - Dr. Bevan French, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s discipline scientist for planetary materials, discusses the space program. Topics include data from Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft, and the new space shuttle program. French also answers listener questions. Dr. French analyzed rocks brought back from the moon. He also helped train NASA Apollo astronauts in geology.
January 24, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet-in-residence for the state of Delaware Molly Peacock reads her work.