March 18, 2012 - On this episode of On Being, Krista Tippet interviews Minnesota writer Kevin Kling, who shares hear his own special angle on life's humor and its ruptures.
March 20, 2012 - Well spring seems to have arrived and with the unexpectedly warm days and nights, people all over Minnesota are rediscovering the simple joys of the season. Essayist Pete Smith says one of the simplest and most joyful of these is sleeping with the bedroom windows open.
March 21, 2012 - On this episode of Minnesota Sounds and Voices, MPR’s Dan Olson presents report on Jane Belau, who has volunteered for ten years playing piano in the Mayo Clinic's Gonda Building lobby. Many at the hospital find the music therapeutic.
March 21, 2012 - MPR’s Mark Steil takes a look back at Sherburn High School Raiders’s win of the 1970 Minnesota Boys Basketball Tournament.
March 23, 2012 - MPR’s Euan Kerr has a conversation with acclaimed photographer Alec Soth and Minnesota writer Brad Zellar about their collaboration on story about running away. The book is titled “House of Coates” and contains photography of ‘Lester B. Morrison.’
March 23, 2012 - The Daily Circuit Rewind-sounds and conversations you might have missed. Includes Retired General Peter Chiarelli on coming to terms with the psychological wounds of war, author and radio storyteller.
March 30, 2012 - On this episode of Minnesota Sounds and Voices, MPR’s Dan Olson explores the sounds of bagpiping with Mike Breidenbach, leader of the Macalester College Pipe Band. Olson also interviews members of pipe band.
March 30, 2012 - A photography exhibit at the Whittier Gallery in Minneapolis aims to showcase young Somali men who are improving the lives of others in the Twin Cities. MPR’s Nikki Tundel meets the Somali-American photographer, Mohamud Mumin, behind the exhibit and catches up with some of his subjects.
April 3, 2012 - David Treuer, an Ojibwe author from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, speaks at the Minneapolis Central Library as part of the Hennepin County Library's Talk of the Stacks series. His book is titled, "Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life."
April 6, 2012 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles French horn virtuoso Bernhard Scully and his mother, Bloomington pianist Joanne Minnetti. The pair have collaborated on album "Dialogues en Francais." The music reflects a mother and son artistic partnership that dates back to when Scully was a child.