February 18, 1981 - On this Midday program, author and illustrator Tomie dePaola talks about writing children's books and answers listener questions. He also discusses the stage version of his children's book, Clown of God, being produced by the Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis.
February 21, 1981 - Bruce Benidt provides a grumpy commentary about the lack of winter snow in the Twin Cities.
February 21, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Philip Levine is profiled. Levine reads his poems and discusses his childhood in Detroit, the setting of many of his poems, as well as his experience in post-Franco Spain.
February 22, 1981 - Quilts and the art of quilting are a significant part of American arts and crafts history. Art historian Susan Murphy discusses the history of quilting.
February 23, 1981 - Myth/ritual is a program from the Meanings of Modernism series, produced by Nancy Fushan. Part three of Meaning of Modernism series, this is "Myth/Ritual".
February 24, 1981 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale discusses foreign policy options in this address at Macalester College in Saint Paul. This is the second of three speeches as part of the Mondale Lectures.
February 28, 1981 - This episode of KCUR’s New Letters on the Air is devoted to the work of California writer Kenneth Rexroth.
February 28, 1981 - Nancy Fushan previews Viking art and artifacts opening this week at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, organized by the British Museum in London.
March 4, 1981 - Former Vice President Walter Mondale discusses domestic policy and the current state of American liberalism in this lecture given at the College of Saint Thomas in St. Paul. This is the third (final) of three speeches as part of the Mondale Lectures.
March 7, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews artist Harmony Hammond. Hammond lived in the Twin Cities while going to school in the 1960s. She left Minnesota for New York where she helped to create Heresies, a women's art collective. During the transition, her art changed course. Hammond prefers to describe herself as a feminist artist struggling to find herself. The results of that struggle are on view at the WARM and Glen Hanson's galleries in downtown Minneapolis.