October 2, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts talks Bruce MacDonald about Autumn Poems II anthology. MacDonald reads classic poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “Ephemera” by William Butler Yeats.
October 4, 1993 - Cornel West, philosopher and Princeton University religion professor, delivers a lecture at St. Paul’s Hamline University on race and American race issues.
October 4, 1993 - MPR’s Leif Enger profiles the dire state of affairs for small town theatres in rural Minnesota. Enger visits the Rialto Theatre in Grand Rapids and The Chief Theatre in Bemidji to find two very different outcomes.
October 7, 1993 - On this Midday, a call-in program about baseball's golden age. Guests include author Roger Kahn, Minnesota State Representative Phyllis Kahn, and local U of M baseball star Paul Geil.
October 7, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest,, and Craig Luca’s Prelude to a Kiss.
October 8, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews director Bain Boehlke and actress Greta Schwerner on their stage production of The Diary of Anne Frank. The artists detail the approach in presenting the work.
October 8, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer interviews American writer and activist Betty Frieden, who talks about the changing aging dynamics of men and women and her book, The Fountain of Age.
October 8, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, educator and local journalist Ann Daly Goodwin provides commentary on aging.
October 8, 1993 - Midmorning’s Cathy Wurzer talks with author Gary Paulsen and illustrator Ruth Wright Paulsen about their book, Dogteam. The book that captures the exhilarating experience of a nighttime dogsled run through a snowy landscape.
October 8, 1993 - A Worldview interview with Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa about her coming-of-age novel, An American Brat. Sidhwa comments on Indian society in regards to women.