A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
Click here for specific content for Midday, and All Things Considered.
September 6, 1980 - Gardening advice by Minneapolis Tribune columnist Bill Nunn with listener call-in. He writes an article on gardening for the Sunday Minneapolis Tribune.
September 13, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman hosts this call-in program on recent developments in the Minnesota powerline controversy, with guests Wendell Bradley, a powerline opponent and assistant professor of physics at Gustavus Adolphus College, and Bob Sheldon, public relations manager for Cooperative Power Association, one of the two cooperatives responsible for the powerline.
September 15, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan talks with twin cities playwright Nancy Beckett, whose play about battered women, "The Women Here are no Different", is being presented by the Women's Theater Project at the Hennepin Center for the Arts.
September 20, 1980 - Minnesota Energy Agency solar expert John Dunlop answers live listener calls on solar heating of homes.
September 24, 1980 - Curtis Sparks from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Nancy Grimsby, founder of a recycling center in Edina, discuss the problem of solid waste recycling in a call-in program.
September 27, 1980 - Richard Mitchell, professor of history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, speaking at "Understanding Resurgent Islam" conference held at the University of Minnesota. Mitchell’s address was titled “The Range of Islamic Activism and Its Potential in the World Today.” It provided insight into the diversity of the Islamic movement. After speech, Mitchell answered audience questions.
September 27, 1980 - MPR’s Tom Meersman interviews Hamid Algar, professor of Islamic studies and history at the University of California at Berkeley. Algar discusses the Iranian revolution, and outlines what he thinks are the greatest misconceptions the United States has of the revolution and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
September 29, 1980 - Nobel Prize-winning plant scientist Norman Borlaug discusses the world food supply, plant genetics, and other topics in the live call-in program.
October 2, 1980 - Actor Martin Sheen is volunteering his services as the narrator for a Twin Cities-made film on the effects of on Vietnam veterans of exposure to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange. The film's producer, Jim Gambone, joins Sheen for a live interview on the film and on Sheen's career.
October 3, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews Pinchas Zukerman about his new career as The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra musical director and conductor. Zukerman shares his excitement on the potential of orchestra and transitioning from role as virtuoso violinist to conductor.