WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Kathryn J. Edin, co-author of "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America." Edin and a team of researchers studied those areas of the U.S. where poverty is most seriously entrenched and tried to sort out the reasons for it.

(from 2011) Byron Johnson, author of "More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How it could matter more."

(From 2018) Chicago Tribune Head Film Critic Michael Phillips

Paul Beston, author of "The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the World"

Michael Schumacher discusses his latest book, "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North and Isle Royale." The book chronicles some of the most dramatic shipwrecks to occur on Lake Superior - and the last section of the book focuses on three exceptionally savage storms in the region.

We revisit a dramatic event from the summer of 2003 when a then-college student named Casey Holtz saved a youngster (a complete stranger) from drowning in Lake Michigan. We also hear briefly from Holtz in the present-day. He is Dr. Casey Holtz, a clinical psychologist based in Milwaukee. We also hear from Seth Weidman, head swimming and diving coach at Carthage College, who performed a similar fea...

Mark E. Stille, author of "Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle." The Battle of Leyte Gulf occurred at a critical point in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

Jack Mitchell is a something of a legend in public radio. He was hired as National Public Radio's very first employee in 1970 and went on to serve as the first producer of NPR's All Things Considered. He later served as director of Wisconsin Public Radio for more than 20 years and presided over the network at a time of spectacular growth and expansion.

(2017) Marc Cushman, author of "Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series"

(2016) Mary Pipher, author of "Letters to a Young Therapist."

John Eisenberg, author of "The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record." The subtitle refers to the record for most consecutive games played; Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games, and his record remained unbroken for 56 years.

We preview this Saturday's Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival. Part One features Ardis Mahone-Mosley, co-chair of the event, and three participants in the popular Cooking Studio event that kicks off the festival. Teri Jacobson is the co-chair of the Cooking Studio. This year's event features a competition between Kenosha Police and Firefighters. Representing their respective sides...

Dr. Jonathan Shailor, Professor of Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about his 28 years teaching at Parkside .... as well as the groundbreaking work he has done with his Shakespeare in Prison Project. Professor Shailor was just given the UW System's highest teaching award.

Dr. Anna Ploszajski, author of "Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making." Dr. Ploszajski is a materials scientist, which means that she studies the properties of substances such as metals, plastic, glass, etc. In this book, she chronicles her encounters with various artisans who actually interact with materials to create things.

From 2007- Mara Gibbs, author of "Everybody Eats There: Inside the World's Legendary Restaurants"

From 2009- Seth Shostak, author of "Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." [the originally announced interview concerning a true story of a real life rescue at the Kenosha lake shore will be shared later]

Lydia Pyne, author of "Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach us about Real Stuff." (from the archives)

For Nan Calvert's August visit to the Morning Show she arranged for a visit from Dr. Marisa Jablonski, executive director of Freshwater Collaborative of Wisconsin, which is working on the crucial issue of fresh drinking water in an amazing array of ways.

Doug McIntyre talks about his intriguing and entertaining novel "Frank's Shadow." In it, the main character's father has died the same day that the famed singer Frank Sinatra dies - and the character realizes that he knows more about Frank Sinatra than he does about his own father- and seeks to discover who he was.

We talk with Doug Instenes about his thirty years with the Racine Theater Guild as well as his upcoming 100th production that he has directed there - "The Cemetery Club" - which, by complete coincidence, is also the very first play that he directed there.

Luke Nichter, author of 'The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968." The book examines the presidential race of 1968 from the perspective of the four chief participants: Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace.

From 2007 - Bruce Littlefield, author of 'Garage Sale America.'

From 2010- David Vann, author of "Legend of a Suicide"

In honor of the blockbuster film "Barbie" currently in theaters.... Part one: (2010) Robin Gerber, author of "Barbie and Ruth- The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her." Part two: (2009) Jerry Oppenheimer, author of "Toy Monster- The Big, Bad World of Mattel."

Jayne Herring, coordinator of the Racine Art Guild's Starving Artists Fair, gives us a preview of this year's event ... which is this Sunday 9:00-4:00 on the grounds of the DeKoven Center. She also gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at all that has to take place to make an event like this happen.