December 22, 1981 -
January 1, 1982 - MPR’s Connie Goldman goes to the Nantucket to visit poet Linda Pastan. The two talk and read poetry along the sea shore.
January 2, 1982 - Firing Line host William F. Buckley Jr. talks with British author Malcolm Muggeridge about religious faith.
January 4, 1982 - With a federal study released indicating that American children today know less about music and consider art less important than the students in the early 1970s, MPR’s Bob Aronson talks with Margaret Hasse, director of the Minnesota Alliance for Arts and Education, to get her reaction on how it relates to Minnesota.
January 14, 1982 - Noted environmentalist and author Sigurd Olson passed away on January 13, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota. This All Things Considered news feature honors his passing by airing his own words.
January 14, 1982 - Radio Talking Book presents this episode of Perspective, where Marilyn Alcott interviews author and radio personality Garrison Keillor. The two discuss Keillor’s book Happy to Be Here. He also reads from the book.
January 15, 1982 - MPR’s Mara Ann Tapp profiles and interviews Meridel Le Sueur. The author discusses the book Ripening, a comprehensive collection of her work. Le Sueur also comments on her love for the Midwest and time in Minnesota. Le Sueur is associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
January 16, 1982 -
January 28, 1982 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews German-born conductor Max Rudolf, who claims he can teach almost anybody to lead a fine orchestra in as little as four weeks. His rules are simple: keep to the score and stay out of the way of the musicians. Hardly the expected advice of a world-renown conductor…but Max Rudolf, at age 80, is not a believer in the cliched image of the pompous maestro.
February 13, 1982 - Minnesota poet Robert Bly performs reading about winter during intermission of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra broadcast of Baroque Series Concert V.