A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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February 15, 1981 - Bill Knight of the International Revenue Service discusses federal income taxes with MPR's Mark Johnson, broadcast live.
February 16, 1981 - This program focuses on artists currently working in new areas and looks at how vanguards have formed, split, and re-formed in the last three decades. Part two of Meaning of Modernism series, this is a continuing of "Ascent of the Vanguard".
February 17, 1981 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale discusses the office of the Vice Presidency and his experience as Vice President in Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. This is the first of three speeches as part of the Mondale Lectures.
February 18, 1981 - On this Midday program, author and illustrator Tomie dePaola talks about writing children's books and answers listener questions. He also discusses the stage version of his children's book, Clown of God, being produced by the Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis.
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February 20, 1981 - US Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger recently stated that crime has created a "reign of terror" in American cities, and that the US has become an "impotent society" in terms of maintaining elementary security. Patrick Murphy, President of the Police Foundation in Washington D.C. discusses crime and policing in the United States.
February 21, 1981 - Bruce Benidt provides a grumpy commentary about the lack of winter snow in the Twin Cities.
February 21, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Philip Levine is profiled. Levine reads his poems and discusses his childhood in Detroit, the setting of many of his poems, as well as his experience in post-Franco Spain.