January 9, 1978 - Joel Barker, former director of the Future Studies Department of the Science Museum of Minnesota speaking at the Southwest State University in Marshall. Barker spoke about our attitude toward the future. Barker was also the director of the National Teachers Futures Workshop for the past three years.
December 7, 1977 - Highlights from "World Hunger and Agriculture: China as a Case Study" conference on world hunger and agricultural policy at Augustana College in South Dakota, including a discussion of China's farm plan. Harvard professor Dr. John King Fairbank, former director of the East Asian Research Center and chairman of the Council on East Asian Studies, provided a historical introduction to life in China in a keynote address; and Dr. Benedict Stavis of the Center for International Studies at Cornell University, gave a speech titled "China's Agriculture, a Socio-Economic Revolution."
November 5, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of teenage pregnancy. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
October 22, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of harvesting, food, and the environment. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
October 8, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of rural men. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
October 1, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of energy in agriculture through horses. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
September 5, 1977 - An excursion through the resort area in Northwestern Iowa known as the Iowa Great Lakes. On Labor Day, most of the tourists and vacationers who swell this area's population from eight to sixty thousand will be going home. But the atmosphere that surrounded the lakes in this and previous summers has been captured in the following sound portrait.
September 3, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of funding for the arts. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
August 27, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of rural women. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.
July 30, 1977 - The following edition of The Poet's Perspective is on the subject of water. The program features Southwest Minnesota regional poets Joe and Nancy Paddock.