A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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May 3, 1980 - City Segments is an exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis featuring new urban planning designs of top architects from around the world. MPR's Nancy Fushan prepared this report on the exhibit and on a two-day symposium attended by architects whose work is represented in the exhibit and by urban design critics.
May 3, 1980 - Psychologist G. Alan Marlatt of the University of Washington at Seattle, a specialist in dealing with people have been unsuccessful at breaking habits, talks with MPR reporter Tom Meersman about methods he has used to help people break bad habits.
May 5, 1980 - William Colby, former director of the CIA, speaking at Macalester College in St. Paul as part of the Hubert H. Humphrey Lecture Series. In address, Colby traces the evolution and need for American intelligence activities, how it is changed today, and the debate over what's appropriate and what techniques are responsible. Colby is the author of two books; "Intelligence Secrecy", and "Security in a Free Society", and "Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA."
May 8, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice, who talks about writing poetry and reads some of his poems.
May 8, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews film animator Robert Breer about his work, the art of animation, and other issues.
May 10, 1980 - Stan Breen, leader of the Minneapolis -based American Refugee Committee, which has recruited health care professionals to aid the refugees in Southeast Asia, holds a news conference to discuss his recent sixteen-day tour of refugee camps along the Thailand border with Kampuchea.
May 13, 1980 - Fishing expert Chet Myers joins MPR's Rich Dietman for a live call-in program with listener questions about the Minnesota fishing season and other questions related to fishing.
May 15, 1980 - Pat Norby, co-founder of the "I Can Cope" cancer program at North Memorial Medical Center in Minneapolis , and program graduates Jerry Braesch and Marycole Millen discuss cancer from the patient's point of view and answer live listener questions.
May 16, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews Dennis Russell Davies, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's principal conductor, as he completes his 1972-1980 tenure with organization. Davies reflects on his time at SPCO, why he programs more contemporary music than other conductors, what different factors make up a successful orchestral season, his experience conducting at Bayreuth for the Ring Cycle, and reflecting on his time at SPCO.
May 17, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman talks with journalists Vaiju Mahindroo, correspondent for India Today magazine, and Bruno Lopez Kupitsky, reporter for the Mexico City newspaper Ovaciones, about their attitudes toward America, its people, and the news media after spending eight months at the World Press Institute at Macalester College in St. Paul.