June 28, 1979 - MPR reporter Shiua Brigid talks with opposing sides of the SALT II agreement. Pro: Sanford Gottlieb, Americans for SALT / Con: Paul Nitze, former arms negotiator. Gottlieb and Nitze share their perspectives and provide various data and information to support their view.
August 10, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Daphne Krause, president of the Minneapolis Age and Opportunity Center, reviews the book Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years by Gay Gaer Luce.
August 15, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Paul Anderson, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, reviews Everybody's Money Book by Jane Bryant Quinn.
August 17, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Bob Muscala, former administrator of drug programs at the University of Minnesota, reviews Windward Passage: A Novel by Mark Brewer.
August 24, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Ron Libertus, liaison officer of the Department of Natural Resources, reviews Hanta Yo: An American Saga by Ruth Beebe Hill.
September 7, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, John Cal Brenner reviews Men’s Survival Resource Book by Dan Weiss.
September 14, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Charles Lutz, director of Global Education for the American Lutheran Church, reviews the book The Famine Plot by John Freivalds.
September 19, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Judge Donald Peterson reviews The Witness Who Spoke With God and Other Tales from the Courthouse by Milton S. Gould.
September 28, 1979 - Gail Levy reviews the William Goldman novel Tinsel.
October 5, 1979 - On this segment of People On Books, Pamela Thompson reviews So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America, 1865-1895 by Norton Juster.