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 10, 1994 - MPR’s Tom Meersman talks with Faroese poet Roy Paterson, who discusses the Faroe Islands and of keeping tradition of culture. Paterson reads a poem in both English and in Faroese.
March 11, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota travel writer John Shepard reads Fire and Heat at Prairie Island, an essay on Shepard’s visit to Joe Campbell’s home, located within the Prairie Island Indian community and near a radioactive power plant.
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March 12, 1994 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling comments about the culture of bars…from a bar.
March 15, 1994 - Erin Hart reviews the History Theater production of the Tony Award play, Dancing at Lughnasa.
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March 17, 1994 - On this Midmorning segment, Irish-American teacher and writer Frank McCourt reads “Ham and Sherry" from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. The book is tragicomic recollection of McCourt’s childhood experience of squalor.