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.
May 1, 1992 - Worldview’s Mike Maus talks with Helen Kivnick, professor of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, about African musical roots. Segment includes Kivnick breaking down singing clips and providing context.
May 6, 1992 - A Worldview interview with author and journalist Gloria Emerson about her book, Gaza: A Year in the Intifada: A Personal Account from an Occupied Land.
May 13, 1992 - American attorney, author, and explorer Alan Nichols details experiences chronicled in his book, Journey: A Bicycle Odyssey Through Central Asia.
May 25, 1992 - Bob Rohlf, director of Hennepin County Library system, shares details on planning efforts for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Rohlf visited Egypt as a U.S. representative for a multinational committee in creating the library space.
May 27, 1992 - A Worldview interview with Mark and Gail Mathabane, who discuss their book Love in Black and White: The Triumph of Love over Prejudice and Taboo. It’s a personal look at the controversial issue of interracial relationships, the authors relate their own and others' experiences as partners in an interracial marriage.
June 5, 1992 - Australian author Tim Winton talks about his book, Cloudstreet. The novel tells the story of two working-class families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who are forced to live together in a large, haunted house in Perth, Western Australia, from 1943 to 1963.
June 15, 1992 - American author and a professor Mary Morris discusses Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin by Rail, which details her overseas travel experience. During segment, Morris reads from her book.
July 1, 1992 - Mark Sommer, author of Living in Freedom: The New Prague, comments on Czechoslovakia and the changes within country upon and after the “Velvet Revolution.”
July 3, 1992 - A Worldview conversation with author Barbara K. Walker about her book, Laughing Together: Giggles and Grins from Around the Globe. Walker shares how children from all over the world present a joke. Segment includes a few jokes along the way.
July 14, 1992 - A Worldview interview with Mayme Sevander on how she came to write They Took My Father. The book is a riveting memoir of one family’s struggle under a totalitarian regime.