October 5, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Pamela Thompson reviews So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865-1895 by Norton Juster.
October 9, 1979 - MPR’s Mary Stucky reports on amateur historian John J. Koblas’ study of local places connected to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Report includes excerpt of Koblas speaking about various locations and their historical tie to the famous author.
December 14, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Iantha LeVander, former governor’s wife and Republican National Committee woman, reviews Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth by Howard Teichmann.
March 14, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Ed Clark, editorial writer for the Miller Publishing Company, reviews Caroline by Thea Holme.
March 14, 1980 - MPR’s Mary Stucky talks with archivist Andrea Hinding, the editor of a new two-volume historical reference book, Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, put out by the University of Minnesota Press.
April 2, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, retired airline pilot Bob Rockwell reviews Kill Devil Hill: Epic of the Wright Brothers, 1899-1909 by Harry B. Combs.
July 16, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Karen Nelson Hoyle, assistant professor and curator of the Children's Literature Research Collections, reviews A Companion to World Mythology by Richard W. Barber.
July 23, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Edward Berryman, organist and director of Music at Westminster Presbyterian Church of Minneapolis, reviews A New History of the Organ from the Greeks to the Present Day by Peter F. Williams.
August 8, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Majorie Dorne, associate professor of English at Winona State, reviews Deliberate Regression by Robert Harbison.
March 10, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 2 (Coming to New York). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, recounting the experiences of immigrants to New York City.