May 20, 1986 - MPR’s Bill Wareham reports on Minneapolis band The Replacements. Wareham interviews lead singer Paul Westerberg, who discusses the band’s reputation and “style” of music. Segment contains music clips of Replacements songs.
May 21, 1986 - MPR’s Jim Bickal presents a profile of the 1986 Minnesota Music Awards. Bickal describes the elaborate scene, talks with a limo driver, interviews an unimpressed Soul Asylum, and hears from a disgruntled guest. Segment also highlights Prince accepting honor as first charter member of the Minnesota Music Academy.
May 22, 1986 - New York Times reporter Andrew Malcolm, author of "Final Harvest: An American Tragedy," speaks to the Minnesota Press Club about his story of the murder of Ruthton, Minnesota, bankers Rudy Blythe and Toby Thulin.A BBC profile on Muammar Gaddafi fills out the hour.
May 24, 1986 -
May 27, 1986 - MPR’s Kate Moos talks with St. Paul’s Ann Bancroft about her expedition to the South Pole. Bancroft recounts the challenges of being in the Arctic.
May 29, 1986 - Paul Gruchow answers listener questions about the Minnesota prairie and his book "Journal of a Prairie Year."
May 30, 1986 - Publisher and Writers Conference, Minnesota Press Club, Steven Brust, Cats Have No Lord, Patricia Wrede, Kara Dalkey, Emma Bull, The Players of Luck, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore
May 31, 1986 - MPR’s Mark Steil presents "Chanarambie Township: Sections 17, 18, 19, and 20," a documentary that explores how farmers in a four-square mile area of Murray County view the farm crisis...where land prices dropped, interest rates went up, and farmers were caught in the middle.
June 2, 1986 - On this cover story of MPR Journal, a look at possible end of the nine month Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota. MPR reporter Mike Mulcahy provides details of Federal District Court Judge Edward Devitt’s injunction on United Food and Commercial Workers Union local P-9, effectively ending strike. Even with court decision, some strikers are determined to continue fight against Hormel officials.
June 3, 1986 -