WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht joins us for his monthly visit.  With him is Tatjana Bicanin, Executive Director of Building Our Future, a non-profit dedicated to improving our community through education.  

Justine Cowan, author of 'The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: a Memoir."  Cowan had believed for most of her life that her mother was descended from Welsh royalty.   It turns out that her mother grew up in London's infamous Foundling Hospital. Cowan embarked on an extraordinary journey to learn as much as she could about the circumstances under which her mother's mother brought her n...

We speak with writer Sidik Fofana (Stories from the Tenants Downstairs) who is coming to Carthage next week as a Visiting Writer.   <Today's/Monday's Morning Show interview will be shared on tomorrow's podcast.> 

From 2016-  Jeff Pearlman, author of "Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Ironic Life of Brett Favre."  

This 2018 conversation with Racine native Zachary Scot Johnson was done to celebrate the 3,000th episode of his "Song a Day" project on YouTube.  We're sharing it again because Zach did his 3,500th episode earlier this past week.  Zach performs a different song every day ... and many of these performances feature collaborations with other musicians.  You'll hear an excerpt from his...

We're given a preview of Saturday night's concert at Carthage College that will feature the music of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn.  Dr. Ed Kawakami is Director of Choral Activities, and Dr. Dimitri Shapovalov is interim conductor of the Carthage Choir. They are serving as co-chairs of the music department.  Saturday night's concert includes the Overture in C by Fanny Mendelssohn as well a...

Evan Ross Katz talks about his book "Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born:  How Buffy the Vampire Slayer Staked our Hearts."  It's a look behind the scenes of one of the most popular, influential and groundbreaking television series in the last quarter century.   The book also examines the enormous cloud of controversy that now surrounds the series' gifted creator, Joss Whedo...

Concert pianist Jeremy Denk, author of "Every Good Boy Does Fine: a Love Story in Music Lessons."  

From 2010- Kathryn Allamong Jacob, author of "King of the Lobby:  The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age."

From 2009- an excerpt from an interview with Howard Behar, author of "It's not about the Coffee:  Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks." (Behar was founding president of Starbucks International, and served the company in other capacities as well.)  

From 2007 - an interview with the late Ralph Houghton, who was the longtime coordinator of fine arts for the Kenosha Unified School District.  

Waldo Mellon (the pen name of screenwriter Steve Adams) discusses his book "What's What and What to do about it: Answers you didn't know you wanted to Questions you didn't know you had." 

 Best-selling novelist Rebecca Serle discusses her latest book,  "One Italian Summer: a Novel."  

From 2021 - (for women's history month)  Robin Gerber, author of "Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll- and the Woman who created her."   

From 2020 (for women's history month) Robert Weintraub, author of "The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame and Mystery." The book examines the life and legacy of Alice Marble,  one of the greatest tennis players of the 20th century. 

We discuss the new book "Bandits, Misfits and Superheroes: Whiteness and its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" with its two authors: Josef Benson, associate professor of literatures and languages ... and Doug Singsen, associate professor of art history .... at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen discuss their book "Connectable: How Leaders can move teams from Isolated to All In."  It's a very perceptive and illuminating book about loneliness in our modern world - and although the book focuses quite specifically on loneliness in the modern workplace, it has relevance far beyond the workplace. 

From 2013- Tim Federle discusses his book "Better Nate than Ever," which tells the story of a 13-year-old boy whose passionate love of musical theater and his dreams to perform on Broadway puts him out of step with most of his peers.  The book has recently been transformed into a film (written and directed by the author) which will premiere on Disney-Plus on April 1st. 

In memory of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who died on March 23rd,  here is our 2003 interview in which she talks about her newly-published memoir Madame Secretary.

A preview of the upcoming Sustainability Summit at Carthage College with Carol Sabbar (Director of Library and Instructional Technology Services) and four Carthage students - Zach Gibson, Alyssa Rodway, Alexis Menendez and Grace Condit - who have helped to put the event together.   ALSO: a preview of this weekend's concert by the Belle City Brassworks with conductor Doug Johnson.  

For Women's History Month:  John Oller, author of "American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War 'Belle of the North' and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal."   The daughter of Samuel Chase (a member of President Lincoln's cabinet), she was for a time the most famous woman in America - and one of the wealthiest and most influential - before her life was engulfed in a r...

Fifty years after passage of the groundbreaking Clean Water Act,  Eric Schaeffer (executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project) talks about his organization's study of the Clean Water Act and what still needs to be done to reach the legislation's lofty goals. 

Philosophy professor Andrew Fiala, author of "Tyranny from Plato to Trump:  Fools, Sycophants and Citizens."  

From 2005-  Jeffrey Tayler, author of "Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel." 

From 2009-  Renowned pastry chef and chocolatier Norman Love talks about his life in the kitchen and what it was like to be a guest on "Baking with Julia."