May 6, 1983 - MPR’s Debra Fisher interviews author Alice Walker, who details how she manages attention and interest after the success of her novel The Color Purple.
June 2, 1983 - Horizons program. [Details unknown]
July 2, 1983 - MPR’s Kevin Burns interviews George Franklin Wade, founding director of Shakespeare and Company. Wade describes the experience for audiences attending the only outdoor classical repertory theater in Minnesota.
July 15, 1983 - Morning Editions Loren Omoto interviews Sherlockian expert John Bennett Shaw, who describes items from his private collection. Segment includes Sherlock Holmes film excerpt.
December 23, 1983 - On this Midday program, a rebroadcast presentation of Truman Capote reading his story, A Christmas Memory. The Capote reading took place at 1976 Writers Conference at University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
January 3, 1984 - A Midday broadcast of part two of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s George Orwell radio biography, "In Search of Poverty." This part covers the years 1927-1936. Scenes of Orwell in Paris and London find the hopeful writer in search of a subject. As Orwell matures as a writer, his social commitment grows and he marries Eileen O'Shaugnessy.
January 30, 1984 - Twin Cities poet Roseann Lloyd reads from her work as part of a series of readings presented by COMPAS. Reading is in conjunction with novelist Alice Walker at The Saint Paul Hotel. Lloyd is introduced by David Mura.
June 6, 1984 - MPR’s John Biewen profiles poet Thomas McGrath. Report includes excerpts of interview and readings by McGrath.
August 5, 1984 - It is not the bang, but the whimper of isolate mankind in the treatment of nuclear war which will be brought to us on CBC Radio on Sunday, August 5th.
August 13, 1984 - A Midday call-in show with children's authors, Tomie dePaola and local author Jane Resh Thomas.