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.
July 22, 1993 -
July 23, 1993 - Educator and local journalist Ann Daly Goodwin expresses her disdain of interactions with phone salesman.
July 23, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Edgerly talks with Alice Vachss, former American prosecutor and author of the book, Sex Crimes. Vachss shares her concern on cultural misunderstanding of sexual violence.
July 23, 1993 - Local theater critic and writer Erin Hart reviews Girish Karnad’s play Nagamandala, a Guthrie Theater production that weaves together two Kannada folk tales, exploring themes of marriage, fidelity, and female agency.
July 23, 1993 -
July 24, 1993 - On this segment from Weekend Edition, historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling discusses traveling northern Minnesota with Europeans.
July 26, 1993 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter reports on the challenging year of rice harvesting, due to a season of flooding. The impact on the wild rice crops greatly affect some in the northern Minnesota communities, such as those of the Leech Lake Band of Chippewa, that use harvesting as a source of income and food.
July 26, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews American lawyer, political figure, and writer Roger MacBride about is continuation of the “Little House” story via Wilder materials and a Rose Years spin‑off. Little House on Rocky Ridge is the first in series.
July 26, 1993 - MPR’s Karen Boothe interviews Kevin Kling about Grandma's Way Out Party, a KTCA-TV show Kling has completed with Lynda Barry. The program has Barry and Kling heading out west to her Grandma's birthday celebration, recording their adventures along the way.
July 26, 1993 - MPR’s Robin Gehl comments on the upswing of the Minnesota Twins coming out of the Major League Baseball All-Star break. Segment includes an interview with Twin designated hitter Dave Winfield.