April 26, 1996 - Midday presents Rockin The Boat, a PRI documentary on South Africa's journey from apartheid to democracy. In 1994, South Africa held its first all-race multi-party elections, putting an end to decades of minority rule. This program traces South Africa's path through the apartheid years with the voices of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Johnny Clegg, and more.
April 26, 1996 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson profiles poet David Mason and his long form narrative poem, "The Country I Remember."
April 29, 1996 - Hour 2 of Midmorning, featuring Voices of Minnesota with Judy Mahle Lutter, co-founder of Melpomene Institute for Women's Health Research. Also, Anthony Appiah, Harvard Afro-American Studies professor on race in America and Odd Jobs - coffin maker.
May 2, 1996 - MPR’s Midmorning host Paula Schroeder interviews Fred Rogers, creator of PBS TV series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Rogers discusses the importance of silence, growing up, and entertaining children.
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May 10, 1996 - Duluth poet Barton Sutter provides commentary on the importance of poetry and it’s status in the United States.
May 15, 1996 - Mainstreet Radio’s Catherine Winter caught up with the Rolling Plains Gallery as it made a stop on Minnesota's Iron Range. The mobile art gallery has paintings bolted to the inside of a semi trailer. The Plains Art Museum in Fargo saw it as a unique solution to the problem of art galleries being few and far between in rural Minnesota, where residents don't often get to see works by professional artists.
May 16, 1996 - Midday presents Nobel Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison speaking as the distinguished Carlson lecturer at the University of Minnesota. Morrison’s speech was entitled “Mutual Hesitancies,” looking at the relationship between fiction and history.
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May 17, 1996 - Part 2 of 2 of a Voices of Minnesota interview with Captain Jack McDuff, a jazz organist.