A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 6, 1980 - Joseph Halow, Executive Director of the North American Grain Exporting Association, speaking in Fargo, ND. Halow addresses the current lack of international trade due to Soviet embargo, and the negative impact on farmers.
March 6, 1980 - Donald Stingel, one of the directors of the Export-Import Bank, speaking at “Minnesota and World Trade: Agriculture and More” forum, sponsored by The Department of Commerce and the Minnesota League of Women Voters. Stingel’s topics included U.S. trade and the Export-Import Bank.
March 7, 1980 - Part of the Walker Arts Center series on Modernism. The speech presents challenges faced by the writer, the reader, and the critic. Literary critic Hugh Kenner discusses the meanings of modernism.
March 8, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles and interviews poet and novelist Marge Piercy.
March 11, 1980 - Author Susan Pearson and illustrator Charles Mikolaycak discuss children's literature and answer listeners' questions.
March 14, 1980 - Reporter Mary Stucky spoke with Andrea Hinding, the editor of a new historical reference book on American women, put out by the University of Minnesota.
March 18, 1980 - Dan Olson interviews Judith Younger of the University of Minnesota Department of Elementary Education. They discuss issues concerning children's literature, including the use of social themes and the censorship of some works. Call-in show.
March 21, 1980 - Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaking at Macalester College as part of the Hubert Humphrey Endowed Lecture series. Lowery addressed the role of Blacks in the United States. Following speech, Lowery answered audience questions.
March 22, 1980 - Anthony Bouza, Minneapolis police chief, speaking before a Citizens League breakfast in Minneapolis. Bouza talked about first month in office and elaborated some on what he hopes to do in the next few years.
March 22, 1980 - Deborah Boehm, nurse-clinician at the Breast Diagnostic Center, part of the Child Bearing-Child Rearing Center at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Ted Nagle, consulting physician at the Breast Disease Diagnostic Center talk about detection of breast cancer and treatment, and women's health issues in general.