May 21, 1996 - MPR film critic Debra Alexander comments on Joel and Ethan films and the adoration they receive at Cannes Film Festival. The Coen brothers are at French film for their film Fargo.
May 22, 1996 - MPR’s Chris Roberts profiles Red Wing poet and teacher Robert Hedin, whose assembled a literary history of the train titled "The Great Machines: Poems and Songs of the American Railroad."
May 27, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, features Voices of Minnesota with Reider Dittman, a concentration camp survivor. Also Arne Fogel on Jerry Lewis, and Odd Jobs - makeup effects artist
May 29, 1996 - MPR’s Eric Friesen speaks with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Conductor Hugh Wolff from the city of Sendai shortly after the second concert of a tour in Japan. The trip is being seen as an important opportunity to develop a Japanese following for the SPCO. Wolff says Japanese audiences have given the SPCO a warm welcome.
May 30, 1996 - MPR’s Dan Olson profiles playwright Rebecca Rice and her play Everlasting Arms, which is being performed at The Penumbra Theatre.
May 30, 1996 - Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough. He is the author of the prize-winning biography Truman and numerous other books and is well-known as the host of the PBS television series The American Experience. His Westminster Town Hall Forum lecture is titled, American Society: Civil and Uncivil. McCullough’s speech is the last in a Westminster series “Voices of Consensus.”
June 3, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Nina Archibald of the Minnesota Historical Society, David Noble, University of Minnesota professor of American Studies, and Susan Hill Gross, Upper Midwest Women's History Center.
June 7, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with Gordon Parks about his influential film career. Parks discusses “The Learning Tree,” amongst other works.
June 10, 1996 - This hour of Midmorning features an episode of MPR’s Voices of Minnesota series. Segments include interview with David Durenberger; a Minnesota Twins update, with Marty Cordova, Chuck Knoblauch, and Paul Molitor; and a conversation with Anthony Horn, producer-creator of the Saint Paul Saints documentary Baseball, Minnesota.
June 12, 1996 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with composer Philip Blackburn about Harry Partch, an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.