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 18, 1972 - MER’s Rosemary Dahlen takes an audio journey through the OTHER big Minnesota fair…with sounds from the Minnesota Renaissance Festival (originally called Minnesota Renaissance Fair). Segment includes the King’s proclamation, a flute vendor, vegetable sellers, lute/guitar player, a palm reader, and a woman singing. This recording is from the second year of festival, held at the Jonathan, Minnesota site.
September 18, 1972 - Connie Goldman reviews Vance Packard's latest book A Nation of Strangers, which discusses the increasing number of isolated and lonely individuals in a highly mobile society, and the chaos caused by big business moving employees all over the globe.
September 26, 1972 - MPR’s Paul Gruchow interviews David Roe, president of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, about politics, elections, and convention.
September 27, 1972 - MPR’s Paul Gruchow reports on Minnesota AFL-CIO meeting to decide if organization will endorse Senator George McGovern for President of the United States. Report includes excerpt of speech at AFL-CIO convention from Hubert H. Humphrey in support of McGovern.
October 2, 1972 - Consumer should be aware of the cost of prescription drugs and the cost should be standardized. Neighborhood drug stores cost more than the discount drug store.
October 5, 1972 - MPR’s Martin Granger interviews author Benjamin Spock about his writing and political criticism of him from individuals such as Spiro T. Agnew and Norman Vincent Peale.
October 6, 1972 - Dr. John Bonica expert on pain discusses the application of acupuncture for use as anesthesia in surgery. The history of acupuncture and its use in China and now the United States.
October 6, 1972 - St. Cloud was chosen by a committee that had a shortage of medical training for their medical community. The medical community is looking to boast their training and offerings such as x-rays.
October 18, 1972 - Brian Peterson speaks to the need for improved health care. Decentralized health care institutions. Charles McCrary speaks for the hospital. Physicians retiring and new people are moving into neighborhood, a neighborhood which desperately needs a hospital.
October 19, 1972 -