Voices of Minnesota, a long-running MPR series, highlights the many interesting voices that make up the people and history of Minnesota. It has appeared on Mid-Morning, MPR, Midday, and News Feature broadcasts in short form, and part of Midday hour programming in long form. Over the years, MPR’s Dan Olson, Gary Eichten, and numerous others, produced hundreds of fascinating interviews from the land of 10,000 Lakes.
August 19, 1996 - This hour of Midmorning features Voices of Minnesota segments with David Lanegran, an urban geographer; a Minnesota Twins update, including interviews with players Frank Rodriguez, Scott Stahoviak, and Paul Molitor; and an Odd Jobs piece on mussel transport.
September 2, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring a Voices of Minnesota interview with Mary Foster Rosenthal, AFL-CIO. Also featured is: Odd Jobs - fish feeder, Odd Jobs - bug wrangler, Odd Jobs - makeup effects artist, Odd Jobs - mascot maker, Odd Jobs - governor's chef.
September 9, 1996 - Part of the Voices of Minnesota series with Rhoda Gilman, historian. Arne Fogel on Billie Holiday and Odd Jobs - motorcycle patrol officer. Hour 2.
September 23, 1996 - In the series, Voices of Minnesota D. J. Leary talks about life and politics. Author Pang-Mei Natasha Chang discusses on Bound Feet and Western Dress and Chinese tradition. Hour 2.
September 30, 1996 - A Voices of America interview with Joe Selvaggio, the founder of Project for Pride in Living, and Yair Dalal, music of peace, in hour 2 of Midmorning.
October 21, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring Voices of Minnesota with Joan Drury, author of the "Spinsters Ink Books." Also featured is Australian nonfiction author, Jill Ker Conway and Odd Jobs - 911 operator.
October 28, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Esther Wattenberg. Also Arne Fogel on Beatles and Odd Jobs - ghost busting.
November 4, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring Voices of Minnesota with Lee Lynch, Minneapolis ad man of Carmichael Lynch. Also, Ambassador Franklin Sonn and Elizabeth Mische on voting.
November 16, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Ulysses S. Seal, conservationist and Larry Long on Smithsonian project.
November 18, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning featuring Voices of Minnesota, an interview from the MPR archives with Meridel Le Sueur, who died at the age of 96. Le Sueur was a writer, stuntwoman, social activist and much more. Also featured is Rita Mae Brown, author of Rubyfruit Jungle and other bestselling novels about women of the South, is out with her fifth mystery novel co-written with her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown. "Murder, She Meowed " probes the depths of human depravity and the heights of feline genius."