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Options
Options was a 1970s-1980s National Public Radio program series broadcast on MPR that highlighted writers via speeches, interviews, and profiles.
29 Collection Items
- Options: Paolo Soleri and Pablo Neruda
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.
- Options: Brian Jenkins - International Terrorism
Brian Jenkins, of the Rand Corporation and author of International Terrorism; a New Mode of Conflict, speaks on the book subject at an Iowa State University symposium on "Humankind in the 1980s."
- Options: Allen Dundas - The Uses of Folklore
Alan Dundes, professor of folklore at the University of California at Berkley, speaks about the importance of folklore and how it is a scholarly discipline.
- Options: N. Scott Momaday - Oral tradition of American Indians
On this Options program, author N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian, describes and discusses his interest in the Native American oral traditions.
- Options: Women Who Dared to Write IV - Charlotte Bronte
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.
- Options: Women Who Dared to Write III - Louisa May Alcott
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 three highlights Alcott.
- Options: Women Who Dared to Write II - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 two highlights Browning.
- Options: Women Who Dared to Write I - Virginia Woolf
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 one highlights Woolf. The series presents excerpts of their works and is hosted by Fred Calland.
- Options: Frederick Douglas
On this Options program, a piece for Black History Month on Frederick Douglas.
- Options: Writing plays
On this Options program, Connie Goldman talks with various playwrights who tell her how they write plays.