February 22, 1983 - MPR’s Pat Kessler reports on Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president, starting his campaign for the presidency in Minnesota. Report includes clip of Mondale speaking about the grain embargo of the Carter administration.
February 22, 1983 - Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale meets with press corps the day after his presidential announcement. Mondale spoke on the vision for his campaign, including nuclear arms, environment, and economy.
March 1, 1983 - Paul Dickson, co-author of "There are Alligators in our Sewers and Other American Credos", discusses the various popularly held beliefs and notions that have no factual basis. Dickson also answers listener questions.
March 1, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with novelist Jean M. Auel
March 7, 1983 - The first of three retrospective programs about the Vietnam war. Featuring Morley Safer, Garrick Utley, Peter Arnett, Robert Scheer, and Phillip Knightly.
March 8, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Chicago educator Marva Collins about her book Marva Collins' Way.
March 9, 1983 - "A Vietnam perspective: The War, the veterans and the society" is the 2nd in a series looking back at the Vietnam War and its affects on the United States. Recorded at the University of Southern California.
March 11, 1983 - The last in a series of three retrospective programs on the Vietnam war. The first two dealt with press coverage of the war, and how it affected American veterans. This broadcast attempts to draw some lessons from the Vietnam war.Speakers include historian William Appleman Williams, playwright Arthur Miller, author Frances Fitzgerald, and anti-war activist Todd Gitlin.
March 15, 1983 - Host Robert Cromie talks with Paul Nagel, author of a book on four generations of the John Adams family.
March 22, 1983 - Robert Cromie talks with Stuart Flexner.