March 21, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, a profile of poet John Knoepfle, who talks briefly about his poetry and reads a number of his poems, including those entitled “After Gray Days,” “Pilgrims' Day,” and a found poem based on speech by an old chief of the Winnebago Indians in 1836.
March 23, 1981 - MPR’s Tom Meersman reports on the housing challenges — practical, cultural, governmental, and social — that refugee families face after arriving in Minneapolis. Substandard housing is among the most problematic of them all.
March 27, 1981 - MPR’s Kim Hodgson reports on speech comments regarding toxic waste from journalist Michael Brown, author of the book Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals.
March 31, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews St. Paul native Gerry Spiess, who talks about his solo voyage across the Atlantic in a boat he built himself named "Yankee Girl". Spiess also discusses his plans for his next journey with "Yankee Girl", this time across the Pacific ocean with stops in Hawaii, Samoa, and Australia.
April 4, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, an interview and reading with writer and artist George Hitchcock. New Letters on the Air is an audio literary magazine exploring the works of American writers and comes from New Letters magazine, a literary quarterly of fine writing published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
April 11, 1981 - Bob Potter talks with Revenue Commissioner Clyde Allen.
April 29, 1981 - What is business doing in the face of competitive challenges from foreign manufacturers. Criticism of business maybe a reaction to confusion. Inflation is rampant, the national debt is rising, interest rates are high, productivity is flat. The news does not sound very encouraging. David Lilly is Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Minnesota and discusses the state of American business.
May 8, 1981 - Examination of how nuclear war might affect the upper midwest. Dr. Richard Huset of the Minnesota Department of Health and Dr. Thomas MacKenzie discuss the probable results of a nuclear attack on the Twin Cities and answers live call-in questions on civil defense, the medical effects of nuclear radiation and other related issues.
May 9, 1981 -
May 9, 1981 -