A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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September 8, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, a preview of the Minneapolis mayoral primary election to succeed retiring Mayor Al Hofstede. Candidates in the DFL primary include Don Fraser, former U.S. Congressman (the DFL endorsed candidate); James Rice, Minnesota state representative; Tim Campbell, gay activist, and others. Candidates in the Independent Republican primary include Mike Barros (Independent-Republican endorsed), and others. Charles Stenvig, former mayor, is the Independent candidate for general election.
September 12, 1979 - NPR reporter talks to members of the Twin Oaks community in Louisa County, Virginia. The Twin Oaks commune was founded in the mid 1960s, as a model from psychologist B.F. Skinner's utopian novel, Walden Two.
September 14, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Charles Lutz, director of Global Education for the American Lutheran Church, reviews the book The Famine Plot by John Freivalds.
September 15, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Bob Potter talks with Greg Barron, producer of “The Way to 8-A" documentary; and Eric Janus of the Supreme Court Committee on Mental Health, about mental commitment procedures.
September 19, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Judge Donald Peterson reviews The Witness Who Spoke With God and Other Tales from the Courthouse by Milton S. Gould.
September 20, 1979 - American Indian writer Jamake Highwater talks to a group of TV producers, artists and business people attending Minneapolis Conference on Children's Television Programming, sponsored by Action for Children's Television, an advocacy group based in Boston.
September 22, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman examines the history of Minneapolis. Dietman interviews Tom Trow, archeologist for the Minnesota Historical Society; Larry Ingalls, genealogist at Church of Latter-Day Saints; Father Alan Moss, pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes; and Marcella Trujillo, Chicano studies professor at University of Minnesota.
September 24, 1979 - Robert Dole at the National Town Meeting discussing problems associated with refugees. At the National Town Meeting, the topic of refugees and what should be done with them is discussed by Republican Senator Bob Dole of Kansas; Ambassador Dick Clark, United States Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and Dale de Haan, the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees.
September 28, 1979 - MPR's Alan Searle interviews Michael Sherbourne, who has worked as a full-time volunteer since 1969 and is considered the main conduit of information between Soviet dissidents and the western world. Sherbourne discusses his over five thousand telephone calls to friends and relatives of Soviet dissidents and other denied exit visas from the Soviet Union. Sherbourne was interviewed in the Twin Cities before travelling to Washington to speak at a conference on the fate of the dissidents.
October 2, 1979 - MPR's special live coverage of Northern States Power Company press conference, where officials answer questions about the nuclear accident at its Prairie Island reactor near Red Wing, Minnesota.