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From 2018  - Hector McDonald, author of "Truth: How the many sides to every story shape our reality." 

The Countess of Carnarvon (Fiona Carnarvon) talks about her latest book,  "The Earl and the Pharoah: from the real Downton Abbey to the Discoveyry of Tutankhamun."  

John Schlimm-  "what would Gen-Z Do? : Everything you don't know about Gen-Z but Should."  

Dennis Baron, author of "You can't always say what you want: The Paradox of Free Speech."  (The book is not released until February 2023.  This interview was recorded on December 9th.) 

Bill Schutt: "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart."  The book examines the human heart and how it functions, but also explores the heart of widely diverse creatures of the animal kingdom.   It also traces the history of humankind's understanding (and misunderstanding) of the heart and its function.  

From 2018-  Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change."  

From 2018 -  Dan Barry, author of "The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland." 

For Nan Calvert's December visit to the Morning Show, we have John Holloway, chairman of the town of Paris, which is the site of a new and exciting solar farm.  

Ken Wiele, a highly regarded high school band director from Kenosha Unified, has taken up nature photography in his retirement ...  and has a beautiful book that collects some of his finest work and combines it with his mother's poetry has just been released in a second edition. 

BONUS -  Here is the complete and unedited interview with Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, author of "Falling to Earth: an Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon."  (An excerpt from this interview aired on today's Morning Show.)  

Today's program commemorates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17, which was on the moon fifty years ago this week- the last time that human beings walked on the moon.   Part One:  Andy Saunders talks about studying the massive frozen film archives at NASA and selecting 400+ images which he gathered into a massive and magnificent new book called "Apollo Remastered."  Many of the i...

Buddy Levy - author of "Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk."  It tells the story of an ill-conceived 1913 Arctic expedition  that went catastrophically wrong. 

From 2008 -  Mac Montandon, author of "Jet Pack Dreams:  One Man's Up and Down (but mostly down) Search for the Greatest Invention that Never Was." 

From 2001-   Neil Bernstein, author of 'How to keep your teenager out of trouble- and what to do if you can't."  

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of THE LITTLE MERMAID, which opens tonight (Dec. 9) and runs for two weekends.  We also talk with George Baumgardt, co-founder and director of the Spirit of Racine Music Makers,  a group of vocalists and instrumentalists who are performing a Christmas concert on Sunday afternoon, December 11th, at 2:30 at The Convenant.  

Part One (2017) -  Craig Nelson,  author of "Pearl Harbor: from Infamy to Glory."   Part Two (2016) Brian Curtis, author of "Fields of Battle: Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl, and the Boys who went to war."  

Robert P. Crease, author of "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory."  

Dr. Thomas Carr, director of Carthage College's paleontology program, joins us along with two of his students - Nathan Cochran and Andy Huynh - to talk about the presentations that each of them made a month ago at the 82nd annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Toronto.  

From 2004-   Amotz Asa-El, author of "The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel."  

In honor of what would have been Weston Noble's 100th birthday this past Wednesday (Nov. 30th),  here is an interview I was privileged to record with my beloved mentor back in the spring of 2008.  (A short excerpt from this was replayed on the 30th.)  

Yeva Skalietska, author of 'You Don't Know what War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl from Ukraine."  Russia attacked Ukraine just days after Yeva celebrated her twelfth birthday. This book is based on a journal she began writing in the early weeks of the conflict.   Also:  Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Parker (2007) discusses her children's book "War is never a good idea" - and Cris...

Dr, Art Cyr discusses the mid-term elections, Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter,  President Lincoln and Thanksgiving Day, and more.  

Steve Phillips-  author of "How we win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good."  It is the contention of Phillips that America is still fighting the Civil War - or at least struggling to come to terms with some of the central issues which led to the conflict and still leave us painfully divided. 

Dr. Susan J. Noonan, author of 'Reconnecting after Isolation: Coping with Anxiety, Depression, Grief, PTSD and more."  The book explores some of the ongoing consequences of enduring extended and unwanted social isolation, such as many of us experienced (and some are still experiencing) during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

On what would have been his 100th birthday,   here is an excerpt from a 2007 Morning Show interview with choral music legend Weston Noble.  (The entire interview will be shared on this coming Saturday's podcast.)