Welcome to the Minnesota Public Radio Archive
Below you will find ever evolving curated collections highlighting diverse, historically relevant, and special interest content. Each collection contains audio stories of a particular subject, represented in chronological order. Explore our state and its people!
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The many faces, voices, and cultures of a Minnesota holiday season
The MPR Archive team has gathered some Minnesota winter gifts of seasons past for all to collectively enjoy. Get something warm to drink, sit back, and let the tales commence.
Notable Contemporary Native Voices in Minnesota
As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, MPR presents archived audio of five distinct contemporary Native American voices from our region: Winona LaDuke, Jim Northrup, Clyde Bellecourt, Louise Erdrich, and Peggy Flanagan. Their efforts in activism, literary work, environmentalism, social work, rights issues, and politics have made an indelible impact on the native community, the state Minnesota, and beyond.
Theme & Variation - Classical interviews
Classical music is more than sound; it’s also a creative human endeavor. Within this collection of MPR classical interviews that spans over five decades, you will find breakfast in a diner with Aaron Copeland; Eric Stokes landing on an electronic sound; Max Rudolf providing simple rules to conduct; and Sharon Isbin giving a guitar lesson…and that’s the tip the baton!
Mainstreet Radio
Created in 1987, Mainstreet Radio held a mission of reporting specifically from rural Minnesota to all of Minnesota. With an introductory staff of Rachel Reabe, Leif Enger, and John Biewen, the group developed both long and short form news features as part of MPR Journal and Morning Edition broadcasts. As the years progressed, Mainstreet Radio expanded both in reporter contributions and programming, with memorable work from the likes of Mark Steil and Catherine Winter, amongst others. Beginning in the 1990s, Mainstreet Radio presented a monthly two-hour special, focusing on issues outside the Twin Cities metro. The varied Mainstreet Radio programming ran into the mid-2000s.
Midday
An MPR news program, broadcasting a variety of public affairs programming covering politics, education, business, world affairs, and sports. Shows were a mix of call-in discussions, interviews, speeches, debates, special presentations, live coverage, and documentaries. Longtime home of the popular hosts Bob Potter and Gary Eichten.
Award Collection
Since our beginning, the stations and programs affiliated with Minnesota Public Radio and later American Public Media, have endeavored to create quality programming for the community and audiences we serve, in keeping with our mission of public service. We have been honored that so many of the talented individuals and teams and their programs have won prestigious industry and audience awards; the MPR Archive is proud to highlight and present these winners in a way that celebrate the award recipient along with the subjects, stories, and communities that demonstrate public media's meaning and impact.
