July 22, 1997 - A Midday broadcast of a speech by Terry Waite, hostage negotiator for the Anglican Church, and a Beirut, Lebanon hostage himself. Waite was guest at the Peace Prize Forum at Augustana College in Sioux Falls.
December 24, 1998 - Mainstreet Radio's Gretchen Lehmann reports on Wings of Mercy, a program based in St. Cloud that assists with the challenges of rural Minnesotans in finding medical care. A group of amateur pilots volunteer their time to fly rural low-income patients to hospitals in larger cities...and they do all their work for free.
October 13, 1999 - Mainstreet Radio's Leif Enger shipped aboard a Bulgarian tramp freighter as it departed for Italy with a load of North Dakota wheat. Enger presents an understanding of sailor life aboard.
April 12, 2000 - MPR’s Lorna Benson interviews filmmaker Greg Stiever on his film Poles Apart. This documentary includes Ann Bancroft and her feelings during the expedition through the lens of her diary. [Content Warning: This audio discusses suicidal ideations]
March 5, 2001 - MPR’s Lorna Benson speaks with Ann Bancroft’s mom, Debbie Bancroft, about what she has heard from her daughter on her trip to ski across the 1,700 miles of Antarctica.
January 2, 2002 - The Minnesota native, along with Norwegian explorer Liv Arneson will begin a kayak trip in mid-May that will take them from the North Shore of Lake Superior to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
May 17, 2002 - Ann Bancroft talks with MPR’s Cathy Wurzer about her six-week trip paddling across the Great Lakes.
March 18, 2005 - MPR’s Bob Reha joins the women’s basketball team at the University of Minnesota to talk to guard Kelly Roysland and her grandmother, Bernice Carlin, who started this generational basketball family.
November 5, 2007 - Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled “Wanted: Parents,”which focuses on two teens looking for adoption before they age out of foster care at 18.
February 8, 2008 - MPR’s Nanci Olesen talks with parents and students about what it is like to be away from one another while in college.