May 31, 1982 - Dale Connelly talks with author and essayist Roger Angell about his book on baseball, Late Innings. Angell comments on the impact of baseball strike, disenchantment of fanbase, and business end of the sport.
June 2, 1982 - Retiring University of Minnesota Political Science Professor Mulford Q. Sibley expresses his political, social, and religious views in a local speech.
June 5, 1982 - An interview with William Peter Kinsella, author of the novel Shoeless Joe. Book is partially set in Chissolm Minnesota, where "Moonlight Graham" is from - a man who played a half of an inning of professional baseball for the New York Giants before returning to Minnesota. Kinsella talks about the novel and his relationship with baseball.
June 6, 1982 - NPR’s Connie Goldman interviews American poet and writer Allen Ginsberg.
June 7, 1982 - Richard Snelling, Republican Governor of Vermont, speaking to the Humphrey institute at the University of Minnesota. Snelling spoke on a framework for a workable government, on the “New Federalism,” and how to make government work. Snelling was first elected Governor of Vermont in 1976, and he won re-election by a wide margin in 1978, and an unprecedented third term in 1980. He had served previously in his state legislature, serving as majority leader in the House. Since becoming a chief executive, he has assumed a larger role in national affairs, working among other things as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. He founded a hardware and ski manufacturing firm in 1959.
June 8, 1982 - About Books and Writers host Robert Cromie talks about books with the people who write them.
June 9, 1982 - Audio clip of former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy stating why he is running for U.S. Senate seat again.
June 9, 1982 - Dale Connelly speaks with three graduating seniors from St. Paul's Highland Park Senior High School on their graduation day, their plans, hopes and fears.
June 12, 1982 - Local commentator Bruce Benidt wonders how “city folk” fleeing to the countryside to escape nuclear attack will play out for “farm folk.”
June 14, 1982 -