WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Part One- Jane Barbian president of the school board of the Racine Unified School District. We discuss various issues confronting the school district- and upcoming elections to fill two vacancies on the board. Part Two - to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 - we'll replay a portion of my 2005 conversation with Jim Dwyer, co-author of "102 MInutes- The Untold Story of the fight to surviv...

From 2016- Brian Murphy discusses his book "81 Days Below Zero: The incredible survival story of a World War 2 pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness." It's the story of the aftermath of a plane crash in Alaska in 1943. There were 5 aviators on board. 4 were killed. 1 of them, Leon Crane, a Philadelphia native with no wilderness experience, somehow managed to survive 81 days in the...

From the archives, Nan Calvert co-hosts a program that focuses on one of the most amazing creatures on earth - the Dragonfly. Our special guest is Marla Garrison, a biologist who lives and works in McHenry County, Illinois .... and who is an expert on Dragonflies and Damselflies.

(from 2017) Fern Schumer Chapman, author of "Like Finding My Twin." Her mother, a Holocaust survivor, made it to America with her childhood best friend- and then the two found themselves separated from one another. More than 70 years later, they finally were reunited, thanks to the help of some 8th graders doing a class project. It's an extraordinary but true story.

Dr. Art Cyr - from the faculty of Carthage College - offers his analysis of various issues and concerns. In this discussion, we begin by discussing a book recently featured on the MS, "Valiant Women," about the thousands of women in uniform who served our nation in World War II. Then we discuss unrest in various African nations, a new trade accord between Japan and South Korea, deepening...

From 2009- One of my all-time favorite interviews on the topic of public school education. The book is "Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of us." Mike Rose was a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

Dr. Thomas Carr, director of Carthage College's paleontology program - Dr. Megan Seitz, preparator - and Andrew Goebel (and Carthage graduate), who has been hired as a new preparator.

From 2020- Marc Freeman, author of "Modern Family: The Untold Oral History of one of Television's Groundbreaking Sitcoms." Freeman was able to speak with every major participant in the show, including every cast member as well as the creators of the show and those who led the production team.

FRom 2004 - James A. Connor, author of "Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother." This is a biography of Johannes Kepler, a 16th century mathematician and astronomer sometimes called "the Protestant Galileo" who discovered the three basic laws of planetary motion.

From 2010: Former tennis pro Patrick McEnroe, author of 'Hardcourt Confidential: Tales from 20 Years in the Pro Tennis Trenches." McEnroe has gone on to be a much respected coach and commentator.

We speak with renowned children's book author Carmen Adra Deedy about her latest book, "Carina Felina," a fresh take on a Caribbean folk tale. We follow that with interview from the archives with the authors of "Big Nate" and "The Proudest Color."

Steven Procko's book "Captured Freedom" tells the true story of nine Union solders in the American Civil War who managed to escape from a Confederate prison camp, Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina, and journeyed more than 350 miles to freedom with the aid of sympathetic Southerners as well as some enslaved men and women that they encountered along the way.

From 2022 - Kate Colbert, author of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education." Colbert and her co-author spoke with over one hundred college and university presidents across the country for a comprehensive view of the extraordinary challenges confronting higher education and the ways in which these institutions are scrambling to remake themselves to meet these challe...

From the archives (2010) - Dr. Ed Schmitt, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discusses his book "President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty." This interview serves as an interesting sequel to two different recent Morning Show interviews: yesterday's conversation with the co-author of "The Poverty of Place" and last...

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.