Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2004- Larry Smith, author of "Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in their own words."

Part One: Paola Cecchi-Demelgio, an attorney and data scientist associated with Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School for Government, weighs in on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week that struck down Affirmative Action. Part Two: (from 2018) Margaret Wilkerson Sexton discusses her first novel, "A Kind of Freedom."

A podcast bonus- This is an episode from Music: A Closer Look, a series I did here at WGTD in the late 1980s during my first years at the station. This particular episode was devoted to the Operatic High Note.

From 2006 - Award-winning filmmaker Eric Daniel Metzger talks about his film "The Chances of the World Changing," which chronicles the experience of a man trying to save more than one thousand turtles that have unexpectedly come into his possession. The film can now be viewed free of charge on Youtube.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xm-HdQqceo

Part One- Christine Sauer from National Geographic talks about their new release "Why? The Human Body." Part Two- from 2005- Richard Rapport, author of "Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse." Part Three: from 2008- Atul Gewande, author of "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance."

From 2003- Dr. Hugh Evans, author of "The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election." The book is an examination of the horrific health woes with which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was contending as he undertook his unprecedented campaign for a fourth term as president - health woes that were largely unknown not only to the general public but to most in his own administration as well.

Part One: (from 2009) Dr. Jordan B. Metzl, author of "The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents." Part Two: (from 2002) Jim Platt, author of "Sports Immortals: Stories of Inspiration and Achievement." The author's father, Joel Platt, has amassed one of the most impressive personal collections of sports memorabilia in the world.

Postponed from last week: James Kwak, co-author (with Stephen B. Bright) of "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts."

From 2007 - Kristin Espinasse, author of "Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France."

From the spring of 1999, entertainment legend Steve Allen (1921-2000) .... the creator of The Tonight Show, a prolific author and composer. He visited both Wingspread and Carthage College in the spring of 1999. This interview is not only special because of Mr. Allen - but also because it was one of the only interviews I conducted with my friend and WGTD colleague Bill Guy, the creator of the Morning Show. Sadly, Bill died just a few months after this interview was recorded.

From 2018, Martin Osterdahl, author of "Ask no Mercy" (a Max Anger novel).

Author Josh Haven discusses his newest novel, "The Siberia Job," a thriller set in Russia in the tumultuous period following the fall of the old Soviet Union.

Part One- Ariane Szu-Tu, co-editor of National Geographic's Kids Almanac 2024. Part Two- (from the archives) Trevor Corson, author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean."

From 2006 - a conversation with Dr. Don Kummings (1940-2017), who for 36 years was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and one the country's leading authorities on Walt Whitman. The occasion of this conversation was the publication of Professor Kummings' fourth book about Whitman, A COMPANION TO WALT WHITMAN.

From the archives: Here is the interview I was privileged to do with Daniel Ellsberg back in 2010 shortly before the PBS telecast of the documentary film "The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." (Mr. Ellsberg passed away on June 16th at the age of 92.)

Part one- Stanley Coren, author of "How Dogs Think: What the world looks like to them and why they act the way they do." Part two- Emily Yoffe, author of "What the dog did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner." <Originally scheduled to air Tuesday, June 20th>

For Father's Day..... Tim O'Brien discusses his memoir "Dad's Maybe Book," in which he talks about the experience of becoming a father quite late in life. The book was published- and the interview was recorded- in 2019.

An archival conversation about gender stereotypes in higher education with Dr. Sylvia Beyer, a longtime Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Kemper Center, executive director of Kemper Center - and Robin Ingrouille, Kemper's administrator.

From 2002- a brief interview with Erik Lindbergh, a grandson of Charles Lindbergh. The occasion of the interview was the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's historic solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 .... and the publication of a brand new book about him titled "Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero," for which Erik wrote the forward.