July 19, 1980 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Fred Steiner, MPR’s music host/announcer, who just returned from a trip to the People's Republic of China with the University of Minnesota marching band. Steiner reflects on the experience, and answers listener questions.
May 24, 1980 - Mrs. Nouha al-Hegelan, wife of Faisal al-Hegelan, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, speaking to an audience at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter. Mrs. al-Hegelan's addressed topics of her country, its people and their religion, as well as politics in this country. Mrs. al-Hegelan's visit to Minnesota was under the auspices of the Delegation for Friendship Among Women.
May 17, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman talks with journalists Vaiju Mahindroo, correspondent for India Today magazine, and Bruno Lopez Kupitsky, reporter for the Mexico City newspaper Ovaciones, about their attitudes toward America, its people, and the news media after spending eight months at the World Press Institute at Macalester College in St. Paul.
April 26, 1980 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Ruth Mattson Taylor about speaking with the dead. Through the help of British clairvoyant Margaret Flavell Tweddell, Ms. Taylor says she communicated with her deceased father, A.D. Mattson, who was a Lutheran minister, on numerous occasions during which time he told her some of what it is like "on the other side.” Ms. Taylor recently finished editing a book entitled, "Witness from Beyond."
April 19, 1980 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews Lyman Steil, Chairman of the Speech and Communications Division of the Rhetoric Department of the University of Minnesota, about listening and how to become better at it. Steil also is a consultant to several corporations that are trying both to teach their employees to listen better and project the image that they are responsive firms because they listen.
April 9, 1980 - Twelve Moons Storytellers Gayle Ross and Liz Ollis, currently on a tour of the upper Midwest, join MPR's Rich Dietman in studio in St. Paul to tell several Appalachian, Native American, and other stories. They talk about different kinds of stories and how to tell them, and answer listener questions about stories.
April 4, 1980 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews musician Steve Tibbetts on his process in producing “Yr” album, which included Tibbetts building his own studio on Lake Street and promoting/marketing to small record stores.
March 25, 1980 - Dr. Tom Norris of the Children's Health Center in Minneapolis discusses children's health issues on this call-in broadcast.
March 22, 1980 - Anthony Bouza, Minneapolis police chief, speaking before a Citizens League breakfast in Minneapolis. Bouza talked about first month in office and elaborated some on what he hopes to do in the next few years.
March 1, 1980 - The Milkweed Chronicle is not a run-of-the-mill newspaper; it is printed on stiff, durable paper and contains poems and illustrations. The paper has just published its first issue. Guests are Nancy Keating (business manager), Emilie Buchwald (editor) and Randy Scholes (art director).