WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of Stephen Sondheim's INTO THE WOODS with Rob Kroes, who is both the stage director and music director for the production, and Nick Cicerale, who portrays the dual role of the Narrator and Old Man.  The production opens tonight and runs through July 31st.  

Nan Calvert pays her monthly visit to the program.  Her guest is Meikel And, who knows a great deal about edible plants, including edible native plants.  

From earlier this year:  Neal Thompson, author of "The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty"

I speak with award-winning illustrator Ed Steckley about his life and multi-faceted career.   

From 2018 -  Zak Dychtwald, author of "Young China: How the Restless Generation will change their country and the world."   It's an intriguing look at how young adults in China will change - and to some extent are already beginning to change - their country.  

Carole Douglis, co-author of "Climate Restoration: The Only Future that will Sustain the Human Race."  

From the archives (2011) comes this interview with astronaut Al Worden, author of "Falling to Earth: an Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon."   

From 2019-  We replay our conversation with WGTD's own Dave McGrath (news director), talking about the interesting road trip he undertook in the summer of 2019 in which he essentially retraced the itinerary of the final concert tour of Buddy Holly sixty years earlier - a tour that ended in a tragic plane crash in rural Iowa.  

Ray Scott, former NBA player and coach, talks about his memoir "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach."  He was the first black coach to earn the NBA's Coach of the Year award.  

We preview this Saturday's Secret Garden Walk (sponsored by the Four Seasons Garden Club) with past-president and publicity chair Lynda Guttormson Guy and Gateway Technical College horticulture instructor Courtney Greve.  

Dr. Art Cyr, from the faculty at Carthage College, offers his analysis of current events and issues. 

From the archives (2010):  NPR's Scott Simon, long-time host of Weekend Edition,  discusses his book "Baby, we were meant for each other: In Praise of Adoption."

Professor Mark Clague is our country's leading authority on the Star Spangled Banner.  I spoke to him on June 14th (Flag Day) about his new book "O Say Can You Hear?- A Cultural Biography of the Star Spangled Banner."   The interview on today's podcast was my first with Professor Clague, recorded back in 2014 when the country was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the writing of t...

From 2010-  Martin Sandler, author of "Resolute:  The Epic Search for the Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship." (Note: of the thousands of Morning Show interviews I have done over the years,  this interview is among my top ten favorites.) 

On the brink of the Racine Concert Band's 100th season of music-making, we speak with its music director and conductor,  Mark Eichner. 

For the last day of Pride Month, Barbara Farrar joins us - Executive Director of the LGBT Center of Southeastern Wisconsin.  (Although the interview as recorded back on the 22nd of June, before the Supreme Court had struck down Row vs. Wade,  Farrar shares some thoughts on the possible impact of what the overturning of Roe vs. Wade might have on the LGBT community. 

From 2017-  Susan Stryker, the author of "Transgender History: The Roots of the Revolution." 

Kemper Hall was a highly regarded all girl's school in Kenosha that was founded 150 years ago - and which operated for just over a century before closing in 1975.  We speak with three alumni-  Barb Axelson,  Susan McMinn, and Anna McGuire - about the sesquicentennial celebration, and about what it was like to be a student at Kemper Hall. 

1) Michael Johnston talks about his series for young readers titled "Confessions of a Dork Lord," the most recent installment of which is titled "Grave Danger."  2) Sonia Monzano from Sesame Street talks about "A Word Together."  3)  From 2003, Jonathan Stroud, author of "The Bartimaeus Trilogy."  

For a number of years,  John Hambrock and Anne Morse Hambrock organized and coordinated the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning, in which a group of nationally syndicated cartoonists would come to Kenosha to talk about their work and the field of cartooning.  Here is our conversation during the 2014 festival with:  Lincoln Peirce (Big Nate), Rick Stromoski (Soup to Nuts), Jeff Keane (Fam...

From 2012 - a conversation with Kenosha author Michael Schumacher about his book "The Wreck of the Carl D: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea."    (The interview is slightly abridged from when it initially aired.)  

From 2017-  Susan Stryker, author of "Transgender History: The Roots of the Revolution."  

Following up on yesterday's conversation about domestic violence, we speak with Suzi Schoenhoft, Executive Director of New Beginnings, an agency in Walworth County that works with victims of domestic abuse (and other victims of crime.)  

Beverly Gooden, author of "Surviving: Why We Stay and How We Leave Abusive Relationships."  

For GTC President Bryan Albrecht's monthly visit to the Morning Show, he is joined by Morna Foy, President of the Wisconsin Technical College System,  and Megan Bahr, a recent Gateway graduate who is a member of the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.