September 28, 1979 - MPR's Alan Searle interviews Michael Sherbourne, who has worked as a full-time volunteer since 1969 and is considered the main conduit of information between Soviet dissidents and the western world. Sherbourne discusses his over five thousand telephone calls to friends and relatives of Soviet dissidents and other denied exit visas from the Soviet Union. Sherbourne was interviewed in the Twin Cities before travelling to Washington to speak at a conference on the fate of the dissidents.
October 4, 1979 - MPR’s Dan Olson interviews experts on what organic farming is and what its value is. The group includes Margery Peterson, principal author of a Minnesota Department of Agriculture publication on organic farming; Marilyn Larson of the Organic Growers and Buyers association; Lester Frohip, an organic farmer from Southwestern Minnesota; and Russell Adams, Jr., a soil biochemist at the University of Minnesota.
October 6, 1979 - On this regional public affairs program, MPR’s Rich Dietman examines the history of St. Paul on the 125th birthday of the city. Dietman interviews Virginia Kunz, executive director of the Ramsey County Historical Society; and St. Paul architect Richard Faricy. Topics include “Pigs Eye” and architecture in the city.
October 15, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan presents a sound portrait of the new Hennepin Center for the Arts, which is opening in downtown Minneapolis. Fushan interviews Carol Ann McKay, who is behind the renovation of building. The Hennepin Center for the Arts will hold ten arts organizations, including Cricket theatre and Minnesota Dance Theatre.
October 16, 1979 - MPR’s Claudia Hampston profiles Minnesota author Sigurd Olson as he receives honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Minnesota. Olson was honored for his environmental writing and efforts in protecting the wilderness of Minnesota.
October 20, 1979 - Pat Kane on Fitzgerald.Patricia Kane, professor of English at Macalester College, discusses the life and works of St. Paul author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
October 24, 1979 - Writer William Burroughs, credited by some as the father of the beat generation, talks with Nancy Fushan. (Re-broadcast of 1978 author profile)
October 26, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews independent filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who discusses autobiographical filmmaking.
October 31, 1979 - George Covington, investment executive for Blyth, Eastman and Dillan company in Minneapolis, discusses the stock market. Topics include inflation, interest rates, tax shelters, and investments. Covington also answers listener questions.
November 1, 1979 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews director Scott Rubsam, playwright Lance Belleville, and actor Jim Lawless about the COMPAS-St. Paul History Theater production "James J. Hill: The Man Who Bought Minneapolis." The play will be performed at the Landmark Center. James J. Hill was a powerful railroad and grain mill magnate, and famous resident of St. Paul.