WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We have a quick follow up interview with Rick Riordan about his latest book,  "The Tower of Nero."  the fifth and final installment in his series "The Trials of Apollo."  

Nan Calvert (from Root-Pike Watershed Initiative) has organized a conversation about the importance of wetlands and wetlands restoration.  She' is joined by Dave Giordano, executive director of Root Pike WIN - as well as Joshua Brown from the Wisconsin DNR;  Brown is coordinating the Meacham Road wetland project in Mount Pleasant.  

Ben Loeterman is the director/producer/writer of "Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip,"  the next episode in the PBS series American Masters.  The film airs Tuesday night on PBS. 

From 2005 -  Robert Trachtenberg discusses his book "When I Knew," which gathers together the recollections of different people about when it was that they first believed themselves to be gay.   The mood of the stories ranges  from humorous to deeply poignant. 

From 2007 comes this conversation with Diane Ackerman about "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story," which recounts how the director of the Warsaw Zoo and his wife Antonina hid more than 300 Jews on the grounds of the zoo and assisted many of them in escaping to the countryside during World War II.  The book was adapted into a major motion picture in 2017 that starred Jessica Chastain in the titl...

We speak with Rosemarie Day,  one of the chief architects of Massachusetts' universal health care system, which served as a primary model for the Affordable Care Act.   Her new book is titled "Marching Towards Coverage:  How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare."  

Tom Nagorski's remarkable book "Miracles on the Water" tells an inspiring stories of the men, women and children who managed to survive the harrowing experience of having their ship torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-Boat in the early days of World War II.  

From 2003 comes this conversation with Michael K. Bohn, who was director of the Situation Room for the George H. W. Bush administration.  His book is titled "Nerve Center:  Inside the White House Situation Room."  

From 2012 -  Anthony Swofford, author of  the best-selling book "Jarhead,"  talks about a later book,  "Hotels, Hospitals and Jails: A Memoir,"  which chronicles the often turbulent relationship he had with his father.  

We speak with Sarah Gorke and Becky Windberg,  co-chairs of the 2nd annual Aspire Conference: Navigating a New World ... a virtual conference running Tuesday through Friday,  October 13-16, originating from Carthage College's Aspire Center.  This year, the conference is available to the general public and free of charge.   

From 2011-   Anne Fortier talks about her novel based on the character of Shakespeare's Juliet.  

From 2004,  an interview with Robin Lynn Williams talking about her debut novel,  "The Assistants,"  which explores the experience of five different young people who have gone to Hollywood and become Personal Assistants to five different celebrities in the hopes that it might be the ticket for their own stardom.   Williams draws upon her own real-life experience as a Perso...

From 2007 - Peter Yarrow - of Peter, Paul and Mary - discusses his children's book "Puff the Magic Dragon."    Yarrow is singing a benefit concert Friday night on behalf of Downtown Kenosha Incorporated,  to help in the rebuilding of the uptown neighborhood.   You can get more information about the concert by going to downtownkenosha.org.   

Dr. Samuel Myers,  co-editor of "Planetary Health:  Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves" 

From 2017-  Max Klau, author of "Race and Social Change:  A Quest, a Study, a Call to Action."  

From 2012-   Marilyn Yalom discusses her book "How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance."   

Thea Keshavarzi, president of the Kenosha Symphony, talks about the concert that the KSO plans to perform this coming Saturday night at Kemper Center- and explains the precautions being taken to keep both the musicians and audience members safe.  

This brief interview is with Sonia Monzano, well-known as Maria on television's Sesame Street, talking about her newest book,  "A World Together," which celebrates diversity.  

We speak with poet and writer Paige Towler, co-author of "Girls Can!  Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations and Make History!"  

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we speak with Jack Rose, president of the Kenosha County chapter of NAMI- the National Alliance for Mental Illness. 

Darin Strauss's novel is titled "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story."   This intriguing book is a work of fiction but carefully based on the life and career of the legendary Lucille Ball - and on what she was experiencing both professionally and personally in the difficult years immediately preceding the launching of "I Love Lucy." 

From 2005-  David Baron discusses his book "The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America."   The book chronicles a situation in Boulder, Colorado in which cougars from the wild began entering residential neighborhoods in increasing numbers.  The story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when humans continue to encroach on the hab...

We talk about Volume Three of Marc Cushman's series "These are the Voyages: Gene Rodenberry and Star Trek in the 1970's."  This volume focuses on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which marked the celebrated franchise's debut on the big screen -  a film that was enormously expensive and complicated - and about which opinion remains sharply divided.  

From 2016 comes this conversation with Leonard Mlodinow, one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, and the author of "The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos."   

Nature writer Ted Williams's book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day earlier this year is titled "Earth Almanac:  A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from The Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale."