Worldview was an hour-long news program that focused on international events, issues, and social issues across the world. The program, hosted by Mike Maus, was broadcast from 1991-1993.
Worldview was the pilot program that launched the PRI syndicated program, The World.
November 4, 1991 - Worldview’s Mike Maus interviews author Vicki Abrahamson about the book she co-authored, entitled War of the Words: The Gulf War Quote by Quote.
December 3, 1991 - Worldview’s Mike Maus interviews Thupten Dadak, founder of the Tibetan American Foundation of Minnesota. Dadak discusses the struggles of Tibetans in their homeland, the Dalai Lama, Buddhism, and immigrating to the U.S.
January 3, 1992 - Joe Follansbee provides his impressions of Jeffry Friedman’s Debt, Development, and Democracy, which analyzes the different paths Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela took to similar external financial conditions.
February 7, 1992 - Nancy Raeburn reads from her book, Mykonos: A Memoir. The title was winner of the 1990 Minnesota Voices Project.
February 24, 1992 - Writer Joe Follansbee reviews Robert Cullen’s book, Twilight of Empire: Inside the Crumbling Soviet Bloc.
February 26, 1992 - Worldview’s Mike Maus talks with French-Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner, author of Eyewitness: A Personal Account of the Unraveling of the Soviet Union. Pozner details actions by Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, and other events, that led to the demise of the Soviet Union.
March 5, 1992 - Australian art critic and writer Robert Hughes about his book, Barcelona, which details history and takeaways of the famous Spanish city.
March 6, 1992 - American academic and author Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer discusses Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and draws parallels between Huxley's dystopian and George Bush and uncritical patriotism in his book, Brave New World Order: Must We Pledge Allegiance?.
March 19, 1992 - Local author and teacher Julie Landsman records a reading about her father and the resistance during WWII.
March 23, 1992 - Worldview’s Mike Maus interviews Carla Lind, American architect and author, about the history and preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright structures in Tokyo. Buildings designed by Wright in Minnesota are also discussed.