March 22, 1997 - The Minnesota Gophers men's basketball team has earned a berth in the NCAA Final Four. The number-one seeded Gophers won the Midwest region final yesterday with an 80-to-72 come-from-behind victory over UCLA. Minnesota Public Radio's Bill Wareham was in San Antonio for the game and has this report.
March 22, 1997 - It's nail-biting time once agin for Gopher fans as the Men's Basketball team faces UCLA at 2:40 this afternoon in the Midwest Regional final. Fans have barely had time to recover from the double overtime victory against Clemson Thursday night.
March 24, 1997 - Midday’s Gary Eichten talks with Minnesota Public Radio producer and film expert Stephanie Curtis, the "Movie Maven" about the Academy Award nominees for the 69th Academy Awards. Curtis details nominees and the process behind nominating process. Program also includes call-in questions and commentary from listeners.
March 28, 1997 - A Midday broadcast presentation of playwright Arthur Miller, appearing at the Guthrie Theater's "Global Voices" lecture series. Miller talks with Guthrie’s Joe Dowling about playwriting. At time of lecture, Miller’s play The Price, was having a run at the Guthrie.
March 31, 1997 - Edgar Stark is a murderer. Convinced that his wife was betraying him,and had been since the beginning of their marriage, he killed her in a brutal act of violence. The courts found him insane and he was confined in one of England's most secure mental institutions. Edgar Stark is a fictious character at the center of Patrick McGrath's new novel "Asylum." Kirkus Reviews calls McGrath a worthy descendant of Edgar Allan Poe, a contemporary master of highbrow Gothic fiction. His previous novels have all been optioned for films. "Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets" based on his book "The Grotesque" opens this month. In "Asylum" McGrath explores the fine line between love and obsession. While Edgar Stark could well be portrayed as a monster, McGrath only lightly touches on his brutal crime...instead introducing the reader to a man of culture and charm.
April 4, 1997 - SELF-CONTAINED. BEGINS WITH FILM CLIP, ENDS WITH MUSIC SCRIPT, SUCH AS IT IS: CLIP: IT WAS ONLY A FILM. Maybe it's unfair to use this particular clip from the Peter Greenaway film "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover" to introduce our next piece. But if it's transgressive of radio tradition, that fits Greenaway, who's spent his life seducing and unsettling audiences. Tonite, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis begins a
April 11, 1997 - Midday’s Gary Eichten has a conversation with former Senator Eugene McCarthy during a visit to the Twin Cities for a couple of public book readings. During the program, McCarthy reads from his publication, Selected Poems, and answers listener call-in questions.
April 13, 1997 - Francisco de Goya's 80 images entitled "The Disasters of War" are on display this weekend at Hamline University. This rare Goya exhibit is part of Hamline's ESPANA festival--a celebraion of Spanish culture. The festival includes speeches by American scholar Noam Chomsky--flamenco dancing, music and art. I toured the Goya exhibit with Curator and Art Professor Leonardo Lasansky. Prof. Lasansky says many people are not familiar with many aspects of Goya's large body of work.
April 16, 1997 - MPR’s John Rabe talks with poet/writer Bill Holm about stoicism and exhaustion of Midwesterners during regional floods.
April 18, 1997 - John Rabe reads from "Frederick Manfred"