November 8, 1976 - Mairin de Burca, general secretary of the Irish Republic Movement (Sinn Fein) and leader of the women's caucus within that movement, speaking at the College of St. Catherine. Speech includes historical and current commentary of the Irish Republic Movement.
November 10, 1976 - A special production by the Minnesota Public Radio news unit on the political history of Rudy Perpich, who takes over as Governor for Wendell Anderson who stepped down to be a Senator.
November 23, 1976 - Bernadette Devlin, former member of the British Parliament from Northern Ireland, speaking at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. Devlin gives her views on the problems in her country.
November 29, 1976 - Former CBS News correspondent Daniel Schorr, speaking at the Temple of Aaron in Saint Paul, traces the growth of the secret intelligence community in the United States. Schorr is responsible for releasing a secret House Intelligence Committee report on the CIA to the Village Voice newspaper. He was subpoenaed by a special House committee investigating the report's leak but refused to divulge the source of his information.
November 30, 1976 - An MPR Special, titled “Power Line Dispute,” looks into the controversy over high voltage power lines planned in numerous rural counties in order to bring additional electrical power to Minnesota and the Twin Cities.
December 4, 1976 - On this regional public affairs program, a discussion of handbook on agricultural areas (aka Agricultural Planning Handbook), in the metropolitan area. Dan Olson interviews Alexander Dean and Jim Schoettler, both from the Metropolitan Planning Commission, about strategizing land use in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, including farming.
December 18, 1976 - On this regional public affairs program, studio guests Brother Theodore Drahmann, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis; and John Littleford, headmaster of Breck School in Minneapolis discuss nonpublic schools in Twin Cities. Topics include differences from public schools and enrollment.
December 20, 1976 - Senator Gary Hart of Colorado; J. Kevin Murphy, president of KMA Industries; Howard Rowan, economic editor of the Washington Post; and Robert D. Lilley, retired president of AT&T, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest.
December 21, 1976 - James C. Miller, president's council on wage and price stability; Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometric Association; and David Pittle, vice chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest. This is the second program of a three-part series reporting on the First National Forum on Business. Government and the Public Interest.
December 22, 1976 - Harry Holiday, president of Armco Steel Corp; Senator Edmund Muskie; Joseph A. Califano, Jr., former Johnson aide; Walter Heller, University of Minnesota Economics; and Cornell Maier, president of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp, discuss government regulation of business at First National Forum on Business, Government and the Public Interest.