Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

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 the Star Spangled Banner. 

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 (Family Circus), Terri Libenson (Pajama Diaries), and Scott Stantis (Prickly City.) 

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.   

William Bernstein, author of "The Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" 

From 2016-  David France, author of "How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS."  

For Father's Day (from 2011)  - Dan Gediman, author/editor of "This I Believe: On Fatherhood."  

For Father's Day -  (from 2004)   Peter Smith, author of "Two of Us: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Beatles."  

For Father's Day -  (from 2018)  David McGlynn (a faculty member at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI) talks about his book "One Day You'll Thank Me:  Lessons from an Unexpected Fatherhood."  

For Nan Calvert's June visit to the Morning Show, we speak with Steve Hopkins, who is with the water quality bureau of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.