A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 20, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 21, 1979 - The Plains Bookbus carries the titles of books printed by small presses to many communities in our region and the book bus driver and some of its patrons talk about the books and their life on the plains. The Plains Bookbus carries the titles of books
March 21, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 22, 1979 - Ed Bradley, a CBS News correspondent, speaking at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Bradley discusses "Media and Politics", and the role of journalists and the protections guaranteed them by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He illustrates both the privilege and problems provided by Freedom of the Press.
March 22, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 23, 1979 - Women Who Dared to Write series profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bonte. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 24, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, a MPR’s Rich Dietman presents report looking at released study of the Carnegie Commission on the future of public broadcasting, titled “Carnegie II.”
March 26, 1979 - Bill Merritt, of the Minnesota Department of Transportation; and Jerry Fruin, professor and agricultural economist from the University of Minnesota, discuss the maintaining of roads in Minnesota. Topics include deterioration, salting, materials, interstate system, and rail transport. Merritt and Fruin also answer listener questions.
March 27, 1979 - In this Options program, author N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, describes and discusses his interest in the Native American oral traditions.
March 28, 1979 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Gordon Everest, computer expert and professor of business management at the University of Minnesota, who shares his concern that most Americans do not understand what is at stake when we talk about the use of computers and the protection of our privacy and property.