MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
September 26, 1987 - MPR’s Kate Moos reports on Minnesota Poets in the Schools Program (now COMPAS). Segment includes interviews with John Caddy and Randy Jennings, who describe program and its history.
September 28, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal provides a breakdown of Minnesota Twins game that had the largest regular season crowd in Metrodome history. Fans watched as the team won game as they battle to win pennant in AL West.
September 29, 1987 - A collection of interviews with Minnesota Twins players after the team beat the Texas Rangers, and in doing so, clinching the pennant in AL West.
September 30, 1987 -
October 1, 1987 - MPR’s John Biewen produced the very first report of Mainstreet Radio. Biewen visits the southern Minnesota town of Good Thunder, where artist Ta-coumba Aiken was commissioned to create a massive mural along the grain elevator in town. The hope is it will help in keeping Good Thunder on the map.
October 5, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal reports on fan reactions as the Twins return home to prepare for playoff baseball. The team ended the MLB regular season with a 85-77 record.
October 5, 1987 -
October 6, 1987 -
October 6, 1987 - As the Minnesota Twins prepare for the 1987 MLB playoffs, MPR’s Bill Catlin looks into perceived reasons behind the team’s winning ways…which include a conspiracy theory and a superstition.
October 6, 1987 -