A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 24, 1980 - Interview with John Orlock, resident playwright for the Cricket Theater in Minneapolis. His latest work is called "Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs", which opened recently at the Cricket.
March 25, 1980 - Dr. Tom Norris of the Children's Health Center in Minneapolis discusses children's health issues on this call-in broadcast.
March 31, 1980 - Independent film maker Kenneth Anger describes his work, including his latest film "Lucifer Rising", and talks about his career, his relationship with Hollywood, and the influences on his films in this interview with MPR's Nancy Fushan.
April 3, 1980 - Rich Dietman talks with Bill Angell, the extension housing specialist at the University of Minnesota about buying a home in Minnesota and what to look for in shopping for an older home. Call-in show.
April 7, 1980 - Less than half of the railroad branch lines operating 10 years ago in southwest Minnesota remain. The 1970's was a decade of wholesale rail abandonment and the role branch lines will play in the 1980's is uncertain. This program examines efforts being made to preserve railroad branch lines.
April 9, 1980 - Twelve Moons Storytellers Gayle Ross and Liz Ollis, currently on a tour of the upper Midwest, join MPR's Rich Dietman in studio in St. Paul to tell several Appalachian, Native American, and other stories. They talk about different kinds of stories and how to tell them, and answer listener questions about stories.
April 10, 1980 - Guests Dr. Thomas Bligh of the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT and Don Metz, an architect in Lyme, New Hampshire and founder of a design and consulting firm specializing in earth-sheltered and passive solar structures. They discuss earth-sheltered dwellings and answer listener questions.
April 12, 1980 - Marilyn Solberg, instructor of psychology at St. Mary's College in Winona, speaking at a symposium sponsored by Southeastern Libraries Cooperating and the Minnesota Humanities Commission at the Winona Historical Society. Soldberg shared her thoughts about the family, and the decline in “traditional” family.
April 16, 1980 - Nick Nash, vice president for programming at Minnesota Public Radio, talks playoff hockey. Nash provides commentary of what to expect in Minnesota North Stars & Montreal Canadians quarter-finals series and the different styles of play in the NHL.
April 19, 1980 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Lyman Steil, Chairman of the Speech and Communications Division of the Rhetoric Department of the University of Minnesota, about listening and how to become better at it. Steil also is a consultant to several corporations that are trying both to teach their employees to listen better and project the image that they are responsive firms because they listen.