October 4, 1986 - Joanne Slavin answers listener questions about healthy eating habits.
October 27, 1986 - Jim Klobuchar talks about his book, Eight Miles without a Pothole, a collection of his columns from the previous ten years.
October 28, 1986 - Tony Bouza, Minneapolis police chief, discusses various police matters. Topics include challenges in terminating officers, his views on civil service, privatization, rise in crime, and age/fitness of officers. Bouza also answers listener questions.
November 1, 1986 - Al Sicherman, food writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, talks about his columns and answers listener questions on food.
November 10, 1986 - Minnesota poet and storyteller Robert Bly, answers listener questions about his writing and his relatively new interest in men's groups. Bly also reads some of his poetry.
November 18, 1986 - Paul Loeb, author of "Hope in Hard Times: America's peace movement and the Reagan era" answers listener questions about anti-nuclear activism during a general period of defense build-ups.
December 8, 1986 - Arvonne Fraser, senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and Karen Fredrickson, development director of the Minnesota Women's Fund, answer listener questions about the economic status of rural women.
December 10, 1986 - On this Midday call-in program, a discussion of life on the farm in Minnesota, featuring a live satellite feed from the Curt & Shirley Pietz hog/grain farm near Lakefield, and from a cafe in town. Program also includes a farm report from MPR’s Mark Steil.
December 19, 1986 - The first part of program presents a rebroadcast of Stephen Smith’s documentary report "Shelter for the Night," which examines the plight of the homeless over a period of 12 hours in the St. Stephen's Emergency Shelter. Following documentary, Nancy Nagler, chair of St. Paul Area Coalition for the Homeless, discusses the homeless problem in Minnesota and what can be done about it. Nagler also answers listener questions.
December 20, 1986 - On this Sportfolio program, Libby Riddles, professional dogsledder, discusses mushing, racing weather, and dog sledding. Riddles also answers listener questions.