March 18, 1980 - Dan Olson interviews Judith Younger of the University of Minnesota Department of Elementary Education. They discuss issues concerning children's literature, including the use of social themes and the censorship of some works. Call-in show.
March 22, 1980 - Deborah Boehm, nurse-clinician at the Breast Diagnostic Center, part of the Child Bearing-Child Rearing Center at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Ted Nagle, consulting physician at the Breast Disease Diagnostic Center talk about detection of breast cancer and treatment, and women's health issues in general.
March 25, 1980 - Dr. Tom Norris of the Children's Health Center in Minneapolis discusses children's health issues on this call-in broadcast.
April 3, 1980 - Rich Dietman talks with Bill Angell, the extension housing specialist at the University of Minnesota about buying a home in Minnesota and what to look for in shopping for an older home. Call-in show.
April 10, 1980 - Guests Dr. Thomas Bligh of the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT and Don Metz, an architect in Lyme, New Hampshire and founder of a design and consulting firm specializing in earth-sheltered and passive solar structures. They discuss earth-sheltered dwellings and answer listener questions.
April 24, 1980 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews Bonnie Watkins, staff member of the Minnesota Council on the Economic Status of Women; and Carol Flynn, an organizer for the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Watkins and Flynn discuss problems faced by office workers and efforts to organize the predominately female clerical workers. Topics include pay inequality, sexual discrimination, and vague job descriptions. Both also answer listener questions.
May 15, 1980 - Pat Norby, co-founder of the "I Can Cope" cancer program at North Memorial Medical Center in Minneapolis , and program graduates Jerry Braesch and Marycole Millen discuss cancer from the patient's point of view and answer live listener questions.
May 19, 1980 - Dan Loewensen, coordinator of the Chemical Awareness Program in the Minneapolis Public Schools and "Mary", a student who is recovering from chemical dependency take questions. Also appearing is Bruce Bomier, director of the Minnesota Behavioral Institute in Anoka, Minnesota. He is former director of the state Alcohol and Drug Authority. They talk with MPR's Dan Olson about the increased use of alcohol among teenagers and the young, and answer live listener questions.
May 28, 1980 - MPR's Rich Dietman hosts a live discussion and call-in from the MPR studios in St. Paul with Kathryn Jordan of Peer Health Education Resources, Inc, an organization that teaches students to teach their peers about health and human sexuality, and students Al Dregger and Sue Stuewer of Saint Anthony Park High School in Minneapolis .
June 3, 1980 - Dale Connelly hosts a call-in show about gasohol - a combination of gasoline and alcohol. Guests are Glenn Kiecker of the Minnesota Gasahol Commission and Michael Murphy of the Upper Midwest Council.