November 15, 1996 - The words of longtime writer and political activist Meridel Le Sueur, who died yesterday at the age of 96. Le Seur objected to being called one of Minnesota's "treasures" -- that's a patriarchal term, she said -- but she was regarded that way. Meridel Le Sueur chronicled the suffering of women and families during the Great Depression. She was a blacklisted social activist, stuntwoman and - for a time - the voice of Betty Crocker.
November 15, 1996 - This Midday program presents two parts: Part 1 a discussion with studio guest Minnesota's attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, who answers listener questions about the prevention of violence. Part 2 is an excerpt from a 1982 interview with writer Meridel Le Sueur, who died at the age of 96 on November 14th, 1996.
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March 31, 1994 - An interview and a review of Martha Boesing's play, "Hard Times Come Again No More."
March 31, 1994 - An interview with Martha Boesing, a playwright who wrote a biographical play of her friend Meridel Le Sueur.
July 5, 1993 - Midday broadcasts an MPR documentary called The Voice of Meridel Le Sueur, which includes various interviews and readings of Le Sueur’s work.
May 24, 1991 - Guthrie Theater actress Sally Wingert reads the Meridel Le Sueur essay, I Was Marching.
August 1, 1982 - NPR’s Connie Goldman profiles and interviews mid-western writer Meridel Le Sueur, who discusses and reads from her work.
January 15, 1982 - MPR’s Mara Ann Tapp profiles and interviews Meridel Le Sueur. The author discusses the book Ripening, a comprehensive collection of her work. Le Sueur also comments on her love for the Midwest and time in Minnesota. Le Sueur is associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s.