April 14, 1970 - Garrison Keillor hosts The Morning Program, which includes skits on lawn care, news, music, and sex tips. The newscast includes the Apollo 13 moon expedition news, which had a explosion on space vessel. Mission Control actualities include the famous "Houston, we've had a problem" audio.
April 8, 1974 - On this segment from Recital Series, MPR’s Michael Barone completes an interview with Alfred Brendel, Austrian classical pianist, during a performance intermission at Benedicta Arts Center at College of Saint Benedict, Saint Joseph.
October 31, 1975 - Famed folk musician Pete Seeger talks about music of the '60s. Seeger comments on the idea of a Hootenany and how ABC TV show was a travesty of the original idea. He also speaks about the recording industry and political changes that occurred during the 1960's.
May 16, 1978 - MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the Twin Cities jazz scene as it existed from the late 1920s to the 1950s, collecting stories on the musicians who played it and the people who listened to it.
May 17, 1978 - MPR's arts reporter Nancy Fushan and Jazz Image host Leigh Kamman prepared this sound portrait of the the post-1950s and contemporary jazz scene in the Twin Cities, collecting stories from musicians, educators, and club owners on an era of both creativity and strife.
October 31, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, pianist Rees Allison reviews Pianist's Progress by Helen Drees Ruttencutter, a profile of piano student Robin McCabe.
November 9, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews electronic composer Morton Subotnick, who describes how he develops the sounds and forms of his pieces.
April 16, 1980 - On this segment of People On Books, Bernard Weiser, a member of the University of Minnesota Department of Music, reviews My Many Years by Artur Rubinstein.
June 6, 1980 - On this segment of People on Books, Dale Huffington, director of the Duluth Festival of the Arts, reviews The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill by Ronald Sanders.
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.