November 8, 1993 - American journalist and writer Susan Gordan Lydon describes the double-life of a drug addict and her book, Take the Long Way Home: Memoirs Of A Survivor. The memoir focuses on drug abuse, addiction, and incest.
November 18, 1993 - A Worldview interview about the Akimoto Matsuyo’s Reifuku (Ceremonial Clothes). The Japanese play is being staged at Macalester College.
November 19, 1993 - A Midmorning conversation with Michael Weisser, Julie Weisser, and co-creator Esther Ouray on the Heart of the Beast puppet and mask play, Befriended by the Enemy.
November 23, 1993 - Minnesota's Attorney General Hubert "Skip" Humphrey III answers listeners' questions about a federal crime bill making its way through Congress as well as various state proposals to combat crime.
December 1, 1993 - Martin Sampson, political science professor at University of Minnesota, comments on the political situation in Israeli-Palestinian conflict and any potential peace process.
December 9, 1993 - Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the center for biomedical ethics at the University of Minnesota, talks about the topic of physician-assisted suicide and answers listener questions.
December 10, 1993 - On this episode of Worldview, MPR’s Jim Wishner talks with Diane Espaldon, executive director of Theater Mu; and Rick Shiomi, director of Theater Mu production “Mask Dance.” The play weaves traditional Korean mask dancing with a contemporary Asian American story based on the experiences of the Korean adoptees who were some of Mu’s first artists.
December 14, 1993 - Dave Durenberger and Paul Wellstone, Minnesota’s U.S. senators, debate at Minnesota Meeting. The topic of debate is health-care reform. Durenberger is an advocate of managed competition in health care, while Wellstone is an advocate of a single-payer system. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
December 15, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer hosts this live panel #2 discussion from 5th Precinct, Minneapolis: William Finney, St. Paul Police Chief; Keith Ellison, director of Legal Rights Center; and Sgt. Don Banham of the Minneapolis Police Department, discuss police and minority relations.
December 15, 1993 - Midday presents an MPR documentary titled “A New Kind of Cop,” which looks at community-oriented policing, with a focus on one such program in Lansing, Michigan, which is being modeled by other departments across the country.