WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

For Martin Luther King Day -  from the archives (2014) -   Todd S. Purdum, author of "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964."  

From 2002 -   H. Avery Chenoweth, author of "Art of War: Eyewitness U.S. Combat Art from the Revolution through the 20th Century."  

From 2005 -  Doris Christopher, the founder of Pampered Chef, talks about her book "The Pampered Chef: The Story of One of America's Most Beloved Companies" 

Bob Glauber, author of "Guts and Genius: The Story of Three Unlikely Coaches who came to Dominate the NFL in the 1980s.)  The coaches in question:  Bill Walsh, Bill Parcells, and Joe Gibbs.  

Stacy Riley, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment at Gateway Technical College, talks about a new initiative at GTC to identify and reach out to so-called Stop-Out Students ....  past students who for whatever reason did not finish whatever degree they were pursuing.  We also talk about all that falls under the auspices of Student Services.  

from the archives-  Lea Burnam and Jeremy Bernard, who served as Social Secretary for the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, respectively, talk about their book "Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life."  

We talk with photographer and activist Heidi Wagner about her Passions Project.   It began ten years ago with her photographing senior citizens engaging with their passions.  The current iteration of the project focuses on people from the LBGTQ+ community in Racine.   The project is about to go on display in the library at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.   ...

Part One:  Holly Stanfield talks about Kenosha Unified's most recent musical theater production:  "Trevor: The Musical."  The title character is a high school student struggling to fit in and to understand who he is and his own sexuality.  Part Two:   from the archives,  Tim Federle talks about "Better Nate than Ever," a book intended for young readers that tells...

Katie Anderson Brower discusses her new book 'Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon." 

From 2007 - Faith Heller Willinger, author of "Adventures of an Italian Food Lover: with recipes from 254 of my Very Best Friends."  

From 2014: Lawrence Silver, the attorney for Samantha Geimer, author of "The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski."  

We finish out this week of repeats of notable 2022 author interviews with these three:  1)  Cody Keenan, head speechwriter for former President Barack Obama, talking about his new book "Grace."  2) Steve Binder, producer of the historic Elvis Presley comeback TV special in 1968 (he has written a new book that takes us behind the scenes) and 3) Andy Saunders, talking about "Apollo Re...

We have been rebroadcasting noteworthy author interviews that were recorded and initially broadcast in 2022.   In this interview,  Marshall Jon Fisher discusses his most recent book "17 & 0," which chronicles the perfect season of the Miami Dolphins 50 years after the fact.  It remains the only time in NFL history that a team finished its season with nothing but victories u...

This week, we are sharing noteworthy author interviews that initially aired in 2022.  Today, Susan Hartman discusses her book "City of Refugees:  The Story of Three Newcomers who Breathed Life into a Dying American City."   The city in question- Utica, New York.  The author follows three refugees - from Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq respectively - who each make a powerful impa...

This week, we are sharing noteworthy author interviews from 2022 Morning Show programs.  Today:  Peter J. Boni, author of "Uprooted- Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination."  Boni learned right before his 50th birthday that his birth was the result of artificial insemination which his parents had pursued in the mid 1940s.  His book...

This week, we are repeating some of our most noteworthy author interviews from 2022.  Today is an interview that initially aired in August 2022 with Jason Reid, author of "Rise of the Black Quarterback: What it means for America." 

Replayed from September 2022- Dr. William Kuhn,  a nationally-published author, former Carthage history professor and expert on British royalty offers his thoughts on the monarchy in the wake of the death of Queen Elisabeth II.  

We are replaying memorable Morning Show interviews from 2022 - all tied to memorable occasions or events.  This interview was with John and Ann Morse Hambrock after John's comic strip "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee"  won the highest award that can be given to a newspaper comic strip.  

We are replaying memorable Morning Show interviews from earlier in the year- all tied to specific, special events or occasions.  This interview is with the director of one of the world's most renowned vocal ensembles, Chanticleer, shortly before their concert at Carthage in late April.  

We are replaying memorable Morning Show interviews from earlier in 2022.  This interview celebrated the second consecutive national championship by Carthage College's men's volleyball team.  

We are rebroadcasting noteworthy Morning Show interviews tied to specific and special events and occasions during the year.  This is an interview done on the eve of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.  

One of the most notable Morning Show interviews aired in August of this year.  It was (presumably) the final Morning Show appearance of outgoing Gateway Technical College Bryan Albrecht, who had made monthly visits to the Morning Show throughout his sixteen-plus years as GTC president.  

This week, we are re-sharing memorable 2022 Morning Show interviews tied to specific events and occasions.  This interview, which originally aired in late June, is about the 150th anniversary of Kemper Center.  

from the archives -  PJ Hamil talks about "The King Arthur Flour Company Christmas Cookie Companion" 

From the archives (2007) - a special anniversary edition of Dr. Seuss's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."