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The Morning Show

It's the monthly visit of the United Environmental Council.

Carthage professor Art Cyr pays his monthly visit to the program to offer analysis of current events.

We preview tonight's American Experience documentary "Klansville U.S.A" which examines the unexpected resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina during the 1960's.

From the archives: - best-selling author Gail Sheehy talking about her memoir

Gateway Technical College president Bryan Albrecht

Edward Conlon, author of "Blue Blood" (one of the most highly acclaimed books about the life and work of police officers). Part 2 of the Morning Shows features "Homes of the Founding Fathers."

Justin Marozzi, author of "Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood"

We speak with L. Jon Wertheim, who collaborated with sportscaster Al Michaels in his new memoir, "You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television."

Author John Oller stops by the Morning Show to talk about his new book "American Queen" about one of the wealthiest women of the 19th century.

Nick Barootian and James Schatzman from the Hospitality Center of Racine talk about their event "The Longest Night" on Sunday, December 20th in support of the areas homeless.

From the new Lifetime Reality series "The Sisterhood: Becomining Nuns" Supervising producer Linda Corley and Sister Beth Ann.

We speak with author of White Guilt, Shelby Steele.

We speak with historian Andrew Roberts about his new biography about Napoleon Bonaparte.

The United Environmental Council pays its monthly visit to the program.

We replay a conversation with Debbie Irving, author of a much discussed book about racism called "Waking Up White."

Professor Art Cyr pays his final 2014 visit to the morning show to offer analysis of current events.

We speak to the author of a brand new biography of J.R.R. Tolkien ("The Hobbit," "The Lord of the Rings") - who is widely regarded as perhaps the most beloved author of the 20th century.

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program.

We reconnect with best-selling author W. Bruce Cameron about his book "The Dogs of Christmas."

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music," which opens this weekend. .

Our guest is Dr. James Kinchen, Director of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, about this weekend's performances of Handel's "Messiah."

We talk with KUSD choir directors Polly Amborn and John Choi and several students about "Ye Olde English Christmas Feaste," which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

UW-Parkside theater arts professor Jennifer Sassaman talks about her department's production of "It's a Wonderful Life," which is being presented in the style/format of a live radio drama.

Lissa Warren, author of "The Good Luck Cat."

We speak with Dr. Jenny Nelson, media scholar and founder of the Parkinson's Disease Narrative Project.

2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the first 4-minute mile.

Postponed from last week, local author James Neibaur joins us in the studio to talk about his most recent book, which examines Jimmy Cagney's movies from the 1930's.

60 years after LBJ's dramatic landslide victory in the 1964 presidential election, we speak with Jonathan Darman about his new book "Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan and the Dawn of a New America."

Carthage professor Art Cyr pays his monthly visit to the program offer analysis of current events.

Paul VonHoff with the early music group Rook.

Patrick O'Donnell author of "First Seals: the Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit."

Our guest is Melanie Hovey from the Lemon Street Gallery

Our guest is the author of "Age of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence."

We speak with Paul Barnett, author of "Las of the Jungle: The 19 billion dollar legal battle over oil in the rain forest and the lawyer who'd stop at nothing to win."

A post-election wrap-up.

Carthage Political Science professors Jeffrey Roberg and Jerry Mast offer their analysis of the most significant political races both locally and on the national level.

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program.

We speak to Jeffrey Ball, a prominent writer on energy and the environment, former environmental editor for the Wall Street Journal, and Scholar in Residence at Stanford University's Steven Taylor Center for Energy Policy

Dennis Wiser, president of the Racine Unified School District School Board, joins us to talk about the upcoming referendum and other issues of concern in the school district.

Education expert Diane Ravitch, author of "Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools." (postponed from last Thursday.)

We will have the candidates for the 63rd Assembly District- incumbent Robin Vos and his Democratic challenger, Andy Mitchell.

Sports writer Bob Ryan (ESPN/ the Boston Globe) talks about his new memoir, titled "Scribe."

Today on the morning show we previewing the World Premiere at Carthage College of "Day After Night," based on Anita Diamont's best-selling novel of the same name.

We speak with James Schatzman about the Choral Arts Society's performance this Saturday night of Verdi's Requiem, inspired by the so-called "Defiant Requiem" event which occurred at the Nazi concentration camp Terezien - w

Actor Eric Pierpoint (Alien Nation, Parks & Recreation) talks about his first book- a novel for young readers set in America's Old West.

More from trumpeter Russ Johnson, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Carthage College professor Art Cyr pays his monthly visit to the program to offer his analysis of current events

We talk about this weekend's concert by the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, a performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, the so-called "Ode to Joy," which kicks off the orchestra's 75th anniversary season.

Carrying forth a journalism theme, we speak with Betsey Connor Bowen, author of a Biography about her journalist father- "Crosswell Bowen: A Writer's Life, A Daughter's Portrait." Bowen was especially prominent during the

We're joined in the studios by Steve Lund, Editorial Page Editor of the Kenosha News.