March 26, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend reports on Broadway opening of the August Wilson play, Fences.
March 27, 1987 - MPR’s Beth Friend presents an interview with James Earl Jones about his role as Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences.
April 4, 1987 - Weekend presents an interview with Eugene McCarthy, who comments on people in politics that have made an impression on him over the years. McCarthy talks about Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Rayburn, Humphrey, and Mondale. He also tells us his view of the press and the state of politics today.
April 6, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal takes a look at what the 1987 MLB baseball season may hold for the Minnesota Twins. The team has new uniforms, a new manager in Tom Kelly, and field replacement to a less spongy turf.
April 6, 1987 - Under current law in Minnesota, sodomy, adultery and sex out of wedlock are illegal. A bill by Senator Donna Peterson, a Minneapolis democrat, would erase those laws, but would also make it illegal to engage in sex in public. Peterson told a Senate judiciary committee that her measure would create a law that’s needed and do away with laws that are both unfair and unenforced.
April 7, 1987 - Howard Sinker, sports commentator for the Minneapolis Star & Tribune, provides a promising outlook that a potentially “good” Minnesota Twins team will take the field during 1987 MLB season. Topics include new manager in Tom Kelly and quality of player roster.
April 7, 1987 - MPR Special Coverage presents an Bill Holm audio postcard from Xi'an, China. It includes poems and essays, labeled "Praise," "Black Hair," "Staring," and "Books in China."
April 8, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Bickal gets fan reactions to the Minnesota Twins new uniforms and new dome turf. One is a winner; the other a mixed bag.
April 25, 1987 - On this segment of Christine Sweet Reads, excerpts from Patricia Hampl’s Spillville.
May 1, 1987 - MPR’s Jim Meumann reports on protests against Chippewa tribe spearfishing at Butternut Lake in Wisconsin.