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.
March 8, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Yelena Khanga, a Russian journalist and TV personality, who shares her Black experience in Russia. Khanga also details items from her book, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992.
March 11, 1993 - A Worldview interview with American writer and journalist Gay Talese about his memoir, Unto the Sons. Talese also speaks on the shared experience of past immigrants of America’s past and those of today.
March 19, 1993 - Worldview’s Mike Maus talks with Susan Allen Toth about My Love Affair with England: A Traveler's Memoir. Toth begins segment with a reading from her book.
April 8, 1993 - Zimbabwean author Shimmer Chinodya reads from his book, Harvest of Thorns.
April 23, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Maus interviews Minnesotan author Marie Lee on her young adult novel, If It Hadn’t Been for Yoon Jun. Following a reading segment, Lee discusses the struggles of integrating her Korean and American identities and of feeling different than most other adolescents in her youth.
May 4, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea. The author discusses his book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, which documents the stories, struggles, and resilience of people in Tijuana.
May 7, 1993 - British Mystery author Anne Perry talks on researching British history and culture for her book, Farrier's Lane. The title is a Victorian mystery involving a judge's murder and potential miscarriage of justice.
May 20, 1993 - Worldview’s Mike Maus has a conversation with explorer and writer Quentin Keynes, great-grandson of Charles Darwin.
June 8, 1993 - Writer Joe Follansbee reviews Wu Ningkun’s Single Tear, a book that recounts the author’s prison experiences in a Chinese labor farm.
June 23, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Judy Gikaru, editor of Echo Magazine and writer for Kenya’s premier political weekly magazine Weekly Review. Gikaru discusses Kenya press, economy, and politics.