November 20, 1973 - Produced with the encouragement of the late Robert Weaver, this Options program is a unique survey of Solzhenitsyn's work, with dramatic excerpts from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, and the voice of the author reading his own poetry (recorded clandestinely in his garden in Moscow before he emigrated to the U. S.).
September 21, 1975 - Forum presents an Options program with tribute to poet and author Dylan Thomas.
April 7, 1977 - This Options program is a reenactment of a trial of Soviet dissident Joseph Brodsky, a Russian poet.
May 31, 1977 - Author Joan Didion addresses The University of California, Berkeley audience about writing. This is followed by interview with NPR reporter Susan Stanberg.
December 20, 1977 - On this Options program, a rare interview with Henry Miller, author of Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn, Black Spring, and other controversial works of his time. Miller discusses his writing career with NPR's Connie Goldman.
December 26, 1977 - On this Options program, a rare interview with Henry Miller, author of Tropic Of Cancer, Tropic Of Capricorn, Black Spring, and other controversial works of his time. Miller discusses his writing career with NPR's Connie Goldman.
January 19, 1978 - NPR’s Mike Waters presents an Options program of the poetry of Dylan Thomas.
March 20, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part one highlights Woolf. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
March 21, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part two highlights Browning.
March 22, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part three highlights Alcott.