October 17, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Dulcie Lawrence reviews Private Lives in the Imperial City by John Leonard.
October 19, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Jack Stanton reviews MacMillan Company’s The Baseball Encyclopedia.
October 24, 1979 - Will Shapira, of the Twin Cities Jazz Society, reviews The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History by James Lincoln Collier.
October 26, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Mark Swanholm reviews Life, Law and Letters by Louis Auchincloss.
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 2, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Tim White, of COMPAS, reviews Family Encyclopedia of Art edited by Bernard L. Myers and Trewin Copplestone.
November 5, 1979 - MPR's special live coverage of election night results, including that of the Minneapolis mayoral race, in which Don Fraser is called as winner. Program includes various reports and commentary from outgoing Minneapolis City Council President Lou DeMars.
November 7, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Marge Hart, of Miniature World, reviews A Family Dollhouse by Sara B. Stein.
November 21, 1979 - Betty Peyton, a needlepoint designer and past president of the Needlework Guild of Minnesota, reviews Needlework in America: History, Designs, and Techniques by Virginia C. Bath.
November 24, 1979 - MPR's Rich Dietman talks with four young foreign journalists about their impressions of the United States, current affairs in their countries, and journalism around the world. The four journalists are Paiter Rotz of the Hungarian News Agency in Budapest; Bruno Lopez of the newspaper Ovaciones in Mexico City; Mohamed Mustafa of the El-Sahafa Arabic Daily newspaper based in Khartoum in Sudan; and Vaiju Mahindroo of the magazine Bombay Today in India. The group are participants in this year's World Press Institute at Macalester College in St. Paul.