September 6, 1973 - Poet Jim Moore compares Walt Whitman's The Role of the Poet with the poetry of Tom McGrath, specifically McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend. Moore reads aloud from both poems.
September 18, 1973 - Vine Deloria Jr., a treaties expert and author of In Utmost Good Faith and We Talk, You Listen, talks with MPR’s Kevin McKiernan. Topics include religion, treaties, and Wounded Knee.
September 23, 1973 - A broadcast of regional poets Thomas McGrath and Mark Vinz speaking at IMAGINATION 1973 in Fargo, North Dakota. McGrath and Vinz also read poems to the audience.
October 1, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman reports on design science exhibit of Buckminster Fuller's eco-friendly architectural story. Report includes interviews with Fuller, and with people viewing the exhibit.
October 2, 1973 - MPR’s Paul Grochow reports on an exhibit of early John Berryman manuscripts displayed at the University of Minnesota. Report includes comments from Berryman’s publishing friend, Robert Giroux, who speaks about the fickle nature of publishing.
October 7, 1973 - Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward speaking at Ford Hall Forum. Title of address was “Watergate: A National Crisis.”
October 8, 1973 - Architect and theorist Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller speaks on the discovery of the eternal pattern operative in the universe. Address was given at University of Minnesota’s Northup Auditorium.
October 15, 1973 - Connie Goldman discusses Irish traditional music with musicians, who share both insight on its history and play various melodies.
October 18, 1973 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence interviews violinist Charles Treger, who talks about competition, Polish audiences, playing with Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and the difficulty of Joachim’s Violin Concerto in D minor.
October 18, 1973 - A plaza may surround the Minnesota Orchestra Concert Hall building now being built. The Peavey company is giving money towards this project, which will be eventually be called the Peavey Park Plaza. The concert hall will finish being constructed first, and is scheduled to open in October 1974. Donald P. Engle, President of the Minnesota Orchestral Association, says he can see possibilities for presenting summer concerts in this space.