March 7, 1981 - Playwright Corinne Jacker discusses her plays Bits and Pieces, performed by the At Random company at the Hennepin Center for the Arts; and Domestic Issues, which will be read at the Playwrights' Center.
March 8, 1981 - Bruce Benidt provides commentary on his new rural noisy neighbors…muskrats.
March 10, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 2 (Coming to New York). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, recounting the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - James Callaghan, former British prime minister, speaking at the Carlson Lecture Series, held at University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Callaghan’s address was on his late friend, Hubert Humphrey, and their similar politics. Callaghan was born in 1912. He entered the British Civil Service in 1929 as a tax officer. He was elected to Parliament in 1945 as a Labor Party member, and he has held a Parliamentary seat for 36 years. Callaghan has also served as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, and he played a key role in negotiating Britain's membership in the Common Market. He was elected Prime Minister in 1976. After leaving that office, he was reelected leader of Britain's Labor Party. He stepped down from that role in 1980.
March 11, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 3 (The Union Spirit). Program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships…and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
March 12, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 4 (Magic and Medicine). Program includes a collection of interviews on unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, where New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists, and ambulance drivers.
March 13, 1981 - Don W. Larson, senior editor of Corporate Report magazine, speaking in Duluth. Larson’s shares his critical views on business in Minnesota and the United States.
March 13, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 5 (Romance of the City). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, where people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
March 14, 1981 - National Public Radio President Frank Mankiewicz and Minnesota Public Radio President Bill Kling discuss public radio, funding cuts, and recessions proposed by the Reagan administration, and what the future may hold for public broadcasting on this call-in program.
March 14, 1981 - Bruce Benidt shares weight loss advice with the 'Scarfdale Diet.'