A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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January 30, 1980 - Experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs spoke with MPR reporter Nancy Fushan commenting on his description of filmmaking as a salvage business.
January 31, 1980 - Minnesota House of Representative Majority Caucus Leader Irv Anderson presents a DFL response to Governor Al Quie's State of the State address.
January 31, 1980 - Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Nicholas Coleman presents a DFL response to Governor Al Quie's State of the State address.
February 2, 1980 - Donald Fraser delivers his first state of the city address as mayor of Minneapolis before the city council and other elected officials.
February 2, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman talks with University of Minnesota future studies professor Arthur Harkins and Marlene Goldsmith, and Australian doctoral student at the University in future studies, about what the future, particularly the 1980s, will bring.
February 7, 1980 - Representative Jim Wright (D-Texas), House Majority Leader, speaks to the national press club about synthetic fuel production and other issues.
February 8, 1980 - Novelist Tim O'Brien's book "Going After Cacciato", inspired by his tour of duty in Vietnam during the war, won the national book award for fiction last year. O'Brien reads from his current work, "The Nuclear Age", when he was at Worthington Community College.
February 9, 1980 - MPR arts reporter Nancy Fushan reports on the opening of the major exhibit of works by the late artist Pablo Picasso at the Walker Art Center. This exhibit includes works from Picasso's personal collection, now owned by the government of France.
February 11, 1980 - MPR’s Dale Connelly takes All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten on "tour" of new domed stadium. It’s a collective imagination experience for reporters…and the listener.
February 22, 1980 - Dr. Seymour Levitt, head of Therapeutic Radiology at the University of Minnesota, answers listener questions about cancer and cancer therapies.