October 13, 1993 - MPR’s Euna Kerr profiles a local production of I Never Saw Another Butterfly, a collection of works of art and poetry by Jewish children who lived in the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Segment includes interviews with survivor Raja Englanderova-Zadnikova and playwright Celeste Raspanti.
October 28, 1993 - Hy Berman, history professor of University of Minnesota, provides a quick summary of the political, social, and economic historical differences between South Minneapolis and North Side.
November 3, 1993 - British author Antonia Fraser talks about Mary, Queen of the Scots. Fraser comments on the research and development of the biography.
November 5, 1993 - On this segment of First Friday, an interview with historian and journalist Alison Owings about Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. Owings’ book contains 29 interviews of German women share their experiences during the Third Reich, from resistance fighters to Nazi Party members.
November 8, 1993 - A Worldview interview with John Perrott, author of Bush for the Bushman. Perrott explains the history of the Bush population and present predicament for the indigenous hunter-gatherer group in Southern Africa.
November 11, 1993 - William H. Hull, author of All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard, talks about the stories he complied of the surprise storm that struck Minnesota on November 11, 1940. He also imparts the necessity to be aware of the speed of weather changes.
November 12, 1993 - On this Worldview segment, historian Gale Stokes talks about his book, The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Stokes breaks down the factors that played out in the various communist European countries.
November 17, 1993 - A Midmorning conversation with Minnesota author Bill Holm about Landscape of Ghosts. The book is photography and prose centered around abandoned 20th-century areas of the American Midwest landscape. Segment includes a reading by Holm.
November 22, 1993 - Joseph Peschek, associate of political science at Hamline University and scholar on the American presidency, discusses John F. Kennedy's presidency on the 30th anniversary of JFK’s death.
November 27, 1993 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews Karal Ann Marling, a local author and scholar of American popular culture and art. Marling discusses history of the holiday bird…the turkey.