A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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March 7, 1980 - As part of the Walker Arts Center series on Modernism, literary critic Hugh Kenner discusses the meanings of modernism. The speech presents challenges faced by the writer, the reader, and the critic.
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 12, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, teacher Mary Gardner reviews A Married Man by Piers Paul Read.
March 14, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Ed Clark, editorial writer for the Miller Publishing Company, reviews Caroline by Thea Holme.
March 14, 1980 - MPR’s Mary Stucky talks with archivist Andrea Hinding, the editor of a new two-volume historical reference book, Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, put out by the University of Minnesota Press.
March 18, 1980 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Judith Younger, an instructor at University of Minnesota’s Elementary Education Department. Younger discusses issues concerning children's literature, including the use of social themes and the censorship of some works.
March 19, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Lee Edison, freelance writer and a former editor at Dance magazine, reviews Diaghilev by Lee Edison.
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 21, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Joe Richardson reviews Victorian Fantasy by Stephen Prickett.