We spend part of the hour with Jennifer Higdon, a highly regarded composer whose "Blue Cathedral" - among the most popular of modern orchestral works - is being played this weekend by the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra.
The Morning Show
We speak with former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens, author of "Resilience: Hard Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life."
Dr. Vera Tarman talks about her new book "Food Junkies: The Truth about Food Addiction." She contends that some people are victims of food addictions that are every bit as acute a drug or alcohol addiction.
Our guest is Mark Crispin Miller, a media studies professor and historian who is the editor for the Forbidden Bookshelf project, which re-releases important or controversial books that have either fallen out of print or ha
We speak with Dr. Angelo Volandes, author of "The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-Of-Life Care." Dr.
Postponed from last week: Sasha Martin, author of "Life from Scratch: A memoir of Food, Family and Forgiveness." Ms.
We are rebroadcastng a Morning Show Interview from 2004 with former Carthage football coach Tim Rucks, who died this past week.
Kay Gregory, director of the Racine Literacy Council, joins us to talk about their upcoming fundraiser (Irish Night for Literacy) as well as a new for-fee program they are beginning to offer.
Sasha Martin, author of "Life from Scratch: A memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness."Also, a preview of the Florentine Opera's production of the opera "Elmer Gantry."
Milwaukee Symphony concert master Frank Almond, who plays a recital at Carthage Tuesday night. You may remember that Mr. Almond was assaulted and had his priceless Stradivarius violin stolen from him.
We speak with Mark Adams, author of "Meet me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City."
In part one of the Morning Show, We preview the upcoming second annual Fine Arts Weekend at Carthage College. Also, Pasquale Laurino from the Racine Symphony Orchestra.
Phil Pospychala talks about this year's Bixfest, honoring the legendary jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. Also, The Best Selling Fancy Nancy Books Celebrate their 10th Anniversary.
Local author Craig Swanson, author of 'The Selma Campaign: Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmie Lee Jackson, and the Defining Struggle of the Civil Rights Movement."
From the WGTD's archives, we replay a conversation from ten years ago with Blair Tindall, author of a best-selling memoir titled "Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music." The book inspired a much-discussed TV
We'll learn more about the so-called Mediterranean Diet, recommended by many physicians as a promising diet both for weight loss and for general health and well-being.
We welcome Carthage professor Art Cyr back into our studios to offer his analysis of current events, as he does once a month.
We spend part of the hour with singer Brandon Jovanivich, who is one of the stars of a Holocaust-related opera premiering Tuesday evening at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, titled "The Passenger."
We discuss Diabetes with Dr. George King, a leading authority on the disease and the author of a new book called "The Diabetes Reset."
It's the monthly visit of the UEC- the United Environmental Council - and on this occasion, Nan Calvert brings with her a teacher and student from an extraordinary junior high/high school in Milwaukee - Escuela Verde - tha
We revisit a conversation from a number of years ago with Jay Boninsinga, the author of "The Sinking of the Eastland: America's Forgotten Tragedy." This disaster occurred one hundred years ago this year - and just in the l
Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program - and the topic is the role that Apprenticeships play in education at GTC.
We have two conversations about the acclaimed actress, writer and activist Ruby Dee - first with her grandson Muta' Ali Muhammad, the director of a documentary about his grandmother titled "Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee"
Part one: Lambs Farm- their partnership with Carthage Athletics-Matt Thorne and Katie Maghussen. Part Two: Josh Sundquist, author of "We Should Hang Out, Sometime-Embarrassingly, A True Story."
Our guest is contralto Meredith Alwady, who has sung leading roles at both the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera.
We're scheduled to speak with Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin system. (He is kindly making time for us during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.)
We welcome into our studios Herman Mashaba, a prominent South African entrepreneur and author who is a special guest of Carthage College's Clausen Center for World Business and Political Economy.
Postponed from last Thursday: Scott Stossel, the editor of Atlantic Monthly magazine, talks about his best-selling memoir (now in paperback) titled "My Age of Anxiety." In it, Stossel talks about his nearly lifelong strugg
We speak to two Carthage professors - Jeffrey Roberg and Penny Seymoure - who have just returned from a trip to Cuba, a nation very much in the news because of President Obama's announcement that the United States would be
We speak with Scott Stossel about his best-selling book (just released in paperback) called "My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind." This book is one of the most powerful, moving, and revel
We preview Tuesday night's documentary on PBS's American Experience titled "The Big Burn," based on the best-selling Timothy Egan book of the same name. It tells the story of the formation of the U.S.
We continue our conversation begun Friday with entertainer Bill Hayes, a regular on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," a star in the original Broadway cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Me and Juliet," and a long tenure on
Our guest is Dana Caspersen, who has worked for a number of years in the field of conflict resolution.
We spend most of the hour with former Kenosha mayor Patrick Moran, talking about a memoir he has just written, "A Story of a Baby Boomer."
We preview tonight's American Experience documentary "Edison," which examines the extraordinary life and career of inventor Thomas Alva Edison
Jonathan Horn, author of "Robert E. Lee: The Man who would not be Washington." (Horn was also a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and we discuss that as well as the book.)
We spend part of the program with Dr. Alice LoCicero, author of "Why Good Kids Turn Into Deadly Terrorists: Deconstructing the Accused Boston Marathon Bombers and Others Like Them." Dr.
Best-selling author Domingo Martinez, talking about his most recent memoir "My Heart is a Drunken Compass." (His previous best-selling book was "The Boy Kings of Texas.")
We talk about the Lakeside Players upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" with Joe Cardamone, who is the stage and music director, and Jack Lambert, who portrays the role of Jack (as in "Jack and the Be
William C. Davis, author of Crucible of Command, a duo-biography of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
In honor of Martin Luther King Day, we replay a portion of our conversation with Rochelle Horowitz, who was one of the people who worked behind the scenes for the 1963 March on Washington.