September 26, 1981 - An interview with author and photographer Gordon Parks about his writing. Parks details his interest in Ireland and the resulting novel Shannon.
September 25, 1981 - Nancy Fushan presents an interview with playwright Paula Cizmar about her play Death of a Miner. The drama is about a female coal miner who dies in a mining accident.
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September 3, 1981 - Foxfire, a dramatization of a series of novels based on Appalachian folk tales, opens at the Guthrie Theater. MPR’s Nancy Fushan talks with actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy about the play and the Minneapolis stage itself.
August 22, 1981 - Representatives from the Take Back the Night march and the battered women program of Minnesota answer live listener questions on violence against women.
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July 2, 1981 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles Ignatius Donnelly, a St. Paul and Philadelphia businessman with real estate interests in Minnesota, most notably the failed town of Nininger. Fushan talks with historian Jeffrey Hess about a Donnelly exhibition at the Minnesota Historical Society.