January 17, 1981 - Richard Hoelscher, Director of Member Services of the Automobile Club of Minneapolis in a listener call-in on caring for your automobile.
January 18, 1981 - An examination of the life of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr, in commemoration of his birthday.
January 19, 1981 - Twin Cities film critic Phil Anderson interviews film director Joseph Mankiewicz Anderson, who discusses his work and his attitudes towards films. Mankiewicz attended the Minneapolis Film Festival, which featured a retrospective of Mankiewicz films.
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January 22, 1981 - Dr. Bevan French, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s discipline scientist for planetary materials, discusses the space program. Topics include data from Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft, and the new space shuttle program. French also answers listener questions. Dr. French analyzed rocks brought back from the moon. He also helped train NASA Apollo astronauts in geology.
January 24, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet-in-residence for the state of Delaware Molly Peacock reads her work.
January 24, 1981 - Minneapolis Police Chief Tony Bouza with Bob Potter. He talks about police work, victimless crime, and other issues on this live call-in program.
January 25, 1981 - This portion of "Options" contains profiles of two creative men: the architect, master planner, and holistic builder Paolo Soleri; and the Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.
January 26, 1981 - Phil Anderson, film critic and writer, speaks with Frank Capra about his career, as Capra visits the Twin Cities to be honored with a retrospective at the Minneapolis Film Festival.
January 27, 1981 - Governor Al Quie addressed a joint session of the Minnesota legislature on the state of the economy, broadcast live.