Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Part One:  Tyler Kepner, author of "The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series."   Part Two:  (from 2019) Dr. Jonathan Gelber, author of "Tiger Woods' Back and Tommy John's Elbow: Injuries and Tragedies that Transformed Careers, Sports, and Society."  

For his monthly visit to the Morning Show,  Dr. Art Cyr (from the faculty at Carthage College) discusses the short tenure of former British Prime Minister Liz Truss and the prospects of her successor, Rishi Sunak - the legacy of Harry S. Truman, who was honored a few weeks ago with a new statue in the U.S. Capitol - and the 60th anniversary this week of the Cuban Missile Crisis.  

From 2010 - Sean Manning, author/editor of "Bound to Last:  30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book."  Thirty of Manning's writer/friends talks about what book they cherish above all others - especially the physical book itself as an artifact.  (Where did they find it?  Or was it given to them by someone else? Did it enter their lives at a particularly crucial point in time? What has the book meant to them ever since?) 

Nicole London talks about the documentary films "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" and "Becoming Frederick Douglas." 

Part One: Cody Keenan, head speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and author of "Grace."  Part Two:  P.M. Forni, author of "The Thinking Life: Thriving in the Age of Distraction."  

From 2014 - Kenosha attorney Frank Parise talks about the experience he and his wife had of raising a son with Autism.  (This interview was done to publicize the couple's annual benefit for Autism Awareness.)  

From 2008- Rebecca Johnson (Vogue magazine) talks about her first novel:  "And Sometimes Why."  

For her October visit to the Morning Show, Nan Calvert's guest is John Zaborsky, president of the Botanical Club of Wisconsin.  Zaborsky is a research associate at the Wisconsin State Herbarium in Madison. 

John Hambrock and Anne Morse Hambrock talk about their comic strip "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee" (which John writes and draws and Anne colors).  It debuted in newspapers across the country in 2006 - and two weeks ago, it won the Silver Reuben for Newspaper Comic Strips from the National Cartoonists Society, which is essentially the 'Oscar' for newspaper comic strips. 

Rachel Swartz, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about their current production - "The Wolves" - that concerns the young women on a high school soccer team.  After that, from the archives, a discussion about injuries in sports and recent breakthroughs in treatment with the author of "That's Gotta Hurt."  

James Schatzman, founder and artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin,  talks about the group's 36th season - which opens this Saturday evening with a concert called "The Spirit Sings."  

Christina LePort, author of "Dissection: a Novel." 

Yohuru Williams, author of "Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter."  This new biography of Robinson looks beyond his impact on the baseball diamond to explore other ways in which he was a force for change.

From the archives:  David Shoemaker, author of "The Squared Circle:  Life, Death and Professional Wrestling" 

"One Day at Disney"  

Paul Sexton, author of "Charlie's Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts."   Watts was the principal drummer for the Rolling Stones for more than half a century.  

The Carthage College Theater Department is about to present performances October 13,14 and 15 of "Frontline- a Verbatim Play," which tells the story of a half dozen front line health care works contending with the extraordinary challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Originally conceived as a pre-recorded virtual production seen over Zoom, it is presented now as a stage performance before a live audience. This is a rebroadcast of the interview done when the play was presented earlier this year.   Martin McClendon is a professor of theater- and Melissa Schmidt was a student in the Verbatim Theater class that put this play together in the first place.  

For the third and final time this week, we are focusing on Alzheimer's.  This is an archival interview from 2017 I recorded with former Wisconsin governor Martin Schreiber, talking about his memoir "My Two Elaines:  Learning, Coping and Surviving as an Alzheimer's Caregiver."    The book chronicles what it was like for Schreiber to care for his beloved wife Elaine as she slowly succumbed to the ravages of Alzheimer's Disease.  (She died earlier this year.) 

From 2008 -  Mary Ellen Geist, author of "Measure of the Heart:  a Father's Alzheimer's, a Daughter's Return" 

From 2003-  David Shenk, author of "The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic."