WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

From 2021 - Lynette Rice, author of "How to save a life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy."

Doug Instenes, Managing and Artistic Director of the Racine Theater Guild, talks about the guild's summer musical, "First Date," which opens this Friday night and runs for the next two weekends. It's a contemporary show but it touches on timeless themes of love, vulnerability, regrets, friendship, and much more. (We play excerpts from several of the songs in the show.)

Best-selling author Robyn Harding talks about her latest novel, "The Haters." The main character. Camryn Lane, is a school guidance counselor who has finally seen a great dream fulfilled: the publication of her first novel. Her excitement and joy is abruptly torn apart when an extremely negative review of her book- one that also attacks her own integrity- is posted online. The attacks co...

Here is the complete interview that WGTD general manager David Cole recorded with Kevin McDougall, sales manager for 5K, the organization that manages Memorial Hall and Festival Park in Racine. The latter was the venue chosen for Donald Trump's visit to Racine last month. This interview, which explores just some of what goes into the planning of such a visit from a security perspective, was re...

We spent most of Monday's Morning Show with Dr. Jerald Mast, Professor of Political Science at Carthage. The program begins with an interview recorded Sunday afternoon in which he reflects on the tragic incident in Butler, Pennsylvania. After that is a brief conversation between WGTD general manger David Cole and Kevin McDougall, who is sales manager for 5K, the organization that oversees Memo...

In an interview recorded this past Thursday, Dr. Jerald Mast - Professor of Political Science at Carthage College - offers his thoughts various facets of current presidential race: the Republican National Convention (which begins today in Milwaukee), the effects of Donald Trump's legal woes, the first Trump/Biden debate, and the increasing calls from some Democrats for President Biden to withd...

(2008) - Bernard Wasserstein, author of "Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?"

From 2007 - Roland J. Dolezal, author of "Where the birds are: A Travel Guide to over 1,000 Parks, Preserves, and Sanctuaries."

Today's interview is a lovely celebration of libraries with Nick Demsky, interim executive director of the Racine Public Library, which recently underwent a massive and impressive refurbishing. We spend some time talking about the ways in which libraries have transformed themselves in the 21st century. Nick also tells the story of the surprising way in which he first became affiliated with the...

We preview this Saturday's Secret Garden Club with Lynda Guy, past-president of the Four Seasons Garden Club. Also joining us is TJ Leveque, director of Hawthorn Hollow, which is this year's bonus garden. Also, TJ's own home garden is on this year's garden walk.

We speak with Robert Grede about RIP: A Musical Comedy of Life & Death (his first musical.) Grede retired seven years ago from a successful career in advertising and marketing and decided to return to his musical roots (he was a music major in college). The work premieres on Wednesday, July 17th- and runs through July 28th at the Next Act Theater's Performance Space at 255 S. Water Street.

Entertainment writer Scott Ryan discusses his book "The Last Decade of Cinema," which celebrates the great films of the 1990's, which he regards as the final heyday of the golden age of cinema.

We look back 50 years to the night that Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, breaking the long-standing career home run record of Babe Ruth. Sportswriter Randy Louis Cox was there that night, and writes about it in his book "715 at 50: The Night Henry Aaron Changed Baseball and the World Forever." Cox will be signing copies of his book tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon, 1:00 to 6:00, at Basebal...

From 2003- Nan Mooney, author of "My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track."

From 2003, Michael K. Bohn, author of "Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room." Bohn led the White House Situation Room during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Ashley Woodfolk and Lexi Underwood are the co-authors of "Louder than Words," a novel for young readers intended to get them thinking about how they can be activists for causes in which they believe.

We speak with writer John Cochran about his novel for young readers titled "Breaking into Sunlight," which is based in large measure on experiences from Cochran's own childhood. It primarily concerns a boy and his mother who have had to suddenly relocate themselves after the boy's father's most recent lapse into alcohol abuse.

Joanna Ho, author of "We Who Produce Pearls: An Anthem for Asian America." The book, intended for young readers but of potential interest to anyone, celebrates the contributions that Asian-Americans have made to our culture.

Dr. Mark Clague, Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, discusses his research into our national anthem - and the website he helped create called Poets and Patriots to commemorate the anthem's 200th anniversary back in 2014.

From 2003- David Lipsky, author of "Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point." Lipsky was granted unprecedented access to West Point and wrote a fascinating account of what it was like to be a student there. (An abridged version of this interview aired on the Morning Show today. This is the interview in its entirety.)

Dan Hampton, military veteran and best-selling author, talks about his latest book ..... "Vanishing Act: The enduring mystery behind the legendary Doolittle Raid over Tokyo."

David Junk, author of "Rockin' the Kremlin: My incredible true story of Gangsters, Oligarchs, and Pop Stars in Putin's Russia." Junk worked in the music industry in Moscow in the turbulent years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

From the archives: Robert Vanderbei, author of "Sizing up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective."

Scott Doorley and Carissa Carter, co-authors of "Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing Thriving Future." The book explores the nature of design- and how designers can create their designs more thoughtfully and with more careful consideration of its potential consequences.

(from 2015) - For the last day of Pride Month, we replay this conversation with Mark Segal, author of "And then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality." Segal was one of the first important gay journalists in America.