Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Astronaut Al Worden was the command pilot for Apollo 15, which went to the moon in 1971.  His fascinating memoir is titled "Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon."   

Natalie Kelly, a professional translator, talks about her work and about the intricacies of language in her book "Found in Translation:  How Language Shapes our Lives and Transforms the World."  

Award-winning sports writer and NPR contributor Ron Rapoport talks about his new book "Let's Play Two:  The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Ernie Banks."    Banks played his entire major league career for the Chicago Cubs and was one of the most beloved yet misunderstood players in Cubs history. 

This conversation was recorded with baseball player Ransom Jackson back in 2016 after the publication of his memoir "Handsome Ransom Jackson:  Accidental Big Leaguer."   Mr. Jackson passed away on March 20th, so we are replaying this interview in his memory.   His memoir includes a plethora of wonderful stories about the great players he played with and played against- including the immortal Jackie Robinson. 

Kurt Chalgren, a choral music legend, died this past Friday.   In his memory, we replay two interviews with him- one from 1996 in which he talks about Kids from Wisconsin.  In the other, from 2014 (his last visit to the Morning Show),  he remembers creating Ye Olde English Christmas Feaste 40 years earlier. 

Part One features Dr. Wael Farouk, director of keyboard studies at Carthage,  previewing this week's Lakeside Piano Festival.  Part Two is a discussion of Carthage's current theatrical production,  "Marie Antoinette," with director Herschel Kruger and two students involved in the production.  

Part 1 is a preview of the Kenosha Public Museum's upcoming Harry Potter-themed fundraiser known as Wizardpalooza.  Part 2 is Dr. Rahuldeep Gill, a faculty member from California Lutheran University,  who comes to Carthage Wednesday evening to give a talk about diversity titled "Beyond Tolerance." 

Tim Madigan enjoyed a very close friendship with Fred Rogers for a number of years.  His book "I'm Proud of You" is all about that friendship and what it meant to the author.  

David Lipsky's remarkable book "Absolutely American: 4 Years at West Point" chronicles what he saw and experienced in four years as an observer at West Point Military Academy.   

In his book "Race & Social Change:  a Quest, a Study, a Call to Action," Max Klau explores how society has achieved breakthroughs towards greater racial justice in the past - and what is necessary in order for that progress to continue.  Klau not only writes about society as a whole through the sweep of recent history, but also writes about his own personal journey in his understanding of race and racial justice. 

Part One is a conversation with concert pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, who is playing a guest recital at Carthage this coming Tuesday evening as part of the Lakeside Piano Festival.  Part Two, from the archives, is with the author of a new biography about Napoleon Bonaparte. 

My guests are Carol Sabbar, Director of Library and Instructional Technology Services at Carthage College- and Mia Bennett, who is her Green Technology Assistant.  They talk about some of the initiatives they have championed to help the school as well as its students and staff live and work in 'greener,' more sustainable ways.  

This is the monthly visit of Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College.  He is joined by Ann Westrich from the Wisconsin Technical College System State Board- and Katie Graft,  GTC's Assistant Director for College Access Partnerships.  This conversation is about how high school students can take certain courses that count both as high school and college credits.

 Betsy Ade, a contestant on TV's "The Voice" - a substitute teacher and musician from Kenosha. 

David Laskin's extraordinary book "The Children's Blizzard" chronicles the story of a monstrous blizzard that struck the midwest on January 12, 1888 and killed hundreds of people - including many children who were caught in the storm while trying to make their way home from school.  The book is epic in its scope yet also deeply personal.  <This interview originally aired in 2005>

This conversation is with Greg Miller, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for the Washington Post, and author of "The Apprentice:  Trump, Russia, and the Subversion of American Democracy."   <this episode originally aired in October of 2018>

Attorney Jonathan D. Karmel's book "Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace" examines the problem of workplace injury and death - not only in our modern day but in a longer historical context.   

Nan Calvert pays her monthly visit to the Morning Show to talk about a topic related to the environment.   Her guest is Abbe Ford,  Manager of Community Relations and Communications at Gateway Technical College.   EcoFest occurs on GTC's Racine campus on March 16th.  

The Misa Tango is a spectacular choral setting of the Latin Mass but composed in the style of the tango.  We speak with Argentinian composer Martin Palmeri... Daniel Binelli, who is one of the world's finest virtuosos on the Argentinian instrument known as the Bandoneon .... and with Dr. Eduardo Garcia-Novelli (also Argentinian) whose Milwaukee Master Singers will perform the work this weekend.

Paul Cortese, a distinguished professional violist who has lived in Barcelona for the last several decades, is back in his hometown of Kenosha for his first performance here since 2005.  He performs with the UW-Parkside orchestra this Saturday night. The interview also includes the Parkside orchestra conductor, Alvaro Garcia.