April 4, 1980 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews musician Steve Tibbetts on his process in producing “Yr” album, which included Tibbetts building his own studio on Lake Street and promoting/marketing to small record stores.
April 7, 1980 - A short audio clip tease of Wise Blood producer Michael Fitzgerald commenting on Flannery O'Connor and John Huston.
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 8, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. They discuss the changes in attitude of beat poetry and his work.
April 9, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Mary Gardner, a teacher of Humanities at the University of Minnesota, reviews Six Moral Tales by Eric Rohmer.
April 9, 1980 - While on a tour of the upper Midwest, Twelve Moons Storytellers Gayle Ross and Liz Ollis, join MPR's Rich Dietman in studio in St. Paul to tell several Appalachian, Native American, and other stories. The duo talk about different kinds of stories, how to tell them, and answer listener questions about stories.
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April 12, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles and interviews poet Galway Kinnell.
April 21, 1980 -
April 22, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews poet Faye Kicknosway, an attendee at the Midwest Writers Festival. Segment also includes reading form Kicknosway.