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.
March 9, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Leif Enger profiles The Up North Family Theatre in Brainerd, Minnesota. The children’s theatre founder hopes to create an important arts institution in the area.
March 9, 1993 - Allan Kornblum, editor and publisher of Coffee House Press, lays out a short history of books and printmaking.
March 10, 1993 - MPR’s Beth Friend talks with Minnesota storyteller Kevin Kling about his play, The Ice Fishing Play. Kling is performing the play at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. Segment includes a short monologue reading by Kling.
March 10, 1993 - A Midmorning interview and performance with Stephanie Laitala, of Business and Professional Women, and playwright Madeline Hansen discuss the Susan B. Anthony play, The Cabinet Meeting.
March 10, 1993 - American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez reads from How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
March 10, 1993 - Robert Guzy, president of Minnesota Bar Association, comments on Paul Wellstone’s committee judge selections. Both selections are African American.
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March 11, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Karen Nelson Hoyle, historian and expert in children's literature at University of Minnesota, about the life and works of children’s writer and artist Wanda Gág.
March 11, 1993 - A Worldview interview with American writer and journalist Gay Talese about his memoir, Unto the Sons. Talese also speaks on the shared experience of past immigrants of America’s past and those of today.
March 11, 1993 - Local Theater critic and writer Erin Hart reviews Aphra Behn’s The Rover at Park Square Theatre and Dennis Potter‘s Brimstone and Treacle at The Loring Playhouse.