March 17, 2005 - The boy's state high school basketball tournament is underway, and another tournament storm seems likely in 2005. "Tournament storms" are legendary in Minnesota -- but, it turns out, they aren't much more than that…legends.
April 8, 2005 - Nobel and Pulitzer prize wining novelist Saul Bellow died this week. Bellow lived and worked in Minnesota for a few years in the late forties and mid-fifties. He spent a lot of time with the poet John Berryman, who was his colleague at the University of Minnesota. This is Bellow writing about that time.
May 17, 2005 - Minnesota poet Robert Bly reads the poem "Driving toward the Lac Qui Parle River."
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July 29, 2005 - All Things Considered’s Tom Crann talks with baseball analyst Gordon Wittenmyer about what is, and IS NOT, working for the Twins when they take the field. The team finds themselves far back in pennant race, now hoping for a chance at wild card.
August 25, 2005 - All Things Considered’s Tom Crann talks with MPR’s Nikki Tundel and debate over what is the better State Fair…Minnesota or Iowa. Their conversation ends with a challenge.
August 29, 2005 - On the 37th anniversary of Hubert Humphrey's nomination as the Democrats' 1968 presidential candidate, the History Theatre Radio Series presents: "All the Way With LBJ." The program features a fictional conversation between Vice President Humphrey and President Lyndon Johnson on the eve of the Democratic convention, plus a panel discussion featuring former Vice President Walter Mondale and others on Humphrey's unsuccessful campaign.
October 3, 2005 - August Wilson moved to St. Paul in 1978 where he got his first paying job as a writer, composing educational scripts for the Science Museum of Minnesota. He lived here until 1990 and it was during that time that he began writing the set of plays that would make him famous. In 1991, Minnesota Public Radio aired a documentary about the playwright and his work. It is called "August Wilson's Sacred Book." Here is an excerpt narrated by Beth Friend.
October 19, 2005 - What do baseball great Lou Gehrig and the biblical history of the modern-day Middle East have in common? Well, admittedly, not much, except that two nationally renowned authors who wrote books on those subjects were in town Sunday to talk about their books.Jonathan Eig, author of "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig," and Bruce Feiler, who wrote "Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land to the Roots of Religion."
November 24, 2005 - This year's edition of "Giving Thanks" includes music, poetry, stories and much more. One highlight is a rare recording of Charles Laughton in which the actor connects his personal discovery of Chartres Cathedral with an excerpt from Jack Kerouac's "The Dharma Bums" and the 104th Psalm.