August 11, 1979 - MPR’s Dale Connelly visits Metropolitan Stadium during a Minnesota Twins ballgame to get fan reactions to the idea of seeing MLB baseball in the future dome stadium. Like the strike zone, opinions are all over the place.
July 25, 1979 - MPR’s Lee Axdahl provides a report on pollution concerns of PCBs (aka - polychlorinated biphenyls) in the Great Lakes. Axdahl tours the Environmental Protection Agency's research ship Crockett as it traverses Lake Superior. Scientists on the vessel are examining the health of the water.
July 7, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman presents highlights from Hispanic festival on the West Side of St. Paul. This was the first El Midwest Canto Al Pueblo (aka - Song to the People). Program includes interviews with artists, music breaks, poetry reading, and other sounds from and about the festival.
June 19, 1979 - ‘Polka Power,’ a report and poetic response to the polka festival subculture in the Upper Midwest with local poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
May 12, 1979 - On this special regional public affairs program, MPR’s Nancy Fushan and Tom Meersman examine current economic and legal issues affecting visual artists. The landmark court action involving late abstract painter Mark Rothko's estate is highlighted, via the comments of an attorney on the case.
April 21, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, a presentation of "How the Chinese See Themselves", a BBC report about the Four Modernizations and current Chinese attitudes and intentions about politics, education, culture, economic development, international relations and military affairs.
April 2, 1979 - MPR’s live coverage of Minnesota House debate on bill and vote on S.F. 20, which would repeal the 2% sports stadium commission liquor tax on on-sale liquor in the seven-county metro area. Program includes conclusion of debate and subsequent House vote, with 71 ayes and 63 nays.
March 28, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan presents Playwrights’ Laboratory, which showcases playwright Nancy Beckett’s Clothes Conscious, a drama written especially for radio, with assistance from the Minneapolis Playwrights' Lab.
March 27, 1979 - On this Options program, author N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, describes and discusses his interest in the Native American oral traditions.
March 23, 1979 - Options broadcast of Women Who Dared to Write series, which profiles four important women writers: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Barrette Browning, Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Bronte. Part four highlights Bronte.