March 10, 1979 - A summary report on The Vietnam Experience and America Today Symposium, a 10-day conference held at Macalester College. The symposium was one of the first national postwar forums to examine the effects of Vietnam.
March 16, 1979 - The Minnesota House Tax Committee hears tax proposals to help finance a downtown Minneapolis domed stadium, including a 2% liquor tax. The committee votes to repeal the liquor tax. After vote, MPR’s John Merli interviews various committee members.
March 24, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, a MPR’s Rich Dietman presents report looking at released study of the Carnegie Commission on the future of public broadcasting, titled “Carnegie II.”
March 28, 1979 - A news feature presenting review on John J. Koblas' book, A Guide to F Scott Fitzgerald's St Paul: A Traveler's Companion to His Homes & Haunts.
April 4, 1979 - On this segment of People on Books, author Melita Denning (Vivian Godfrey), of St. Paul’s Gnostica Magazine and Bookstore, reviews Atlantis, Fact or Fiction?, edited by Edward S. Ramage.
April 27, 1979 - Former Minnesota governor Elmer L. Andersen reviews the book The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate by Maurice H. Stans.
May 12, 1979 - On this special regional public affairs program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan and Tom Meersman examine current economic and legal issues affecting visual artists. The landmark court action involving late abstract painter Mark Rothko's estate is highlighted, via the comments of an attorney on the case.
June 19, 1979 - ‘Polka Power,’ a report and poetic response to the polka festival subculture in the Upper Midwest with local poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
June 22, 1979 - Minnesota poet Joe Paddock shows his perceptions of the migration of wild geese across the Minnesota prairie in poem The Geese. Segment includes musical elements.
June 25, 1979 - Edwin Knoll, editor of The Progressive magazine, talks about the H-bomb article which was banned from publication in his magazine. Erwin Knoll explains why he should be able to publish an article on the working of a hydrogen bomb.