Luca Spaghetti, author of "Un Amico Italiano: Eat Pray, Love in Rome." He figures prominently in Elizabeth Gilbert's famous bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love."
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Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of the best-selling novel "Secret Daughter," which touches on topics of adoption, clash of cultures and balance of work and family.
We speak with award-winning and best-selling novelist Lisa Jackson about her career and about her latest novel, "Devious."
David Maack from Racine County Emergency Management. He'll talk about severe weather, and will offer some comments on the recent disastrous storms in the south.
Father J. Bryan Hehir, Montgomery Professor of the JFK School at Harvard, and Secretary for Health Care and Social Sciences for the Archdiocese of Boston. He's the most recent executive-in-residence at Carthage.
Tim Flannery, author of "Here on Earth," a fascinating look at the history of the planet and our place on it.
Our guest, Charles Clotfelter, talks about his new book "Big-Time Sports in American Universities," in which he explores how athletics - especially football and basketball - has come to be such a gigantic part of so many m
We talk about the proposal for much stricter voter registration in Wisconsin with Jay Heck from Common Cause; also with us will be Jerald Mast, a member of the political science faculty at Carthage College.
WGTD's Dr. Steve Brown, co-writer Michael Ullstrup and actor Gary Stamm talk about their most recent play, "A Fireside Chat: A Conversation FDR," which is about U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
We speak with RIchard McLaughlin, an instructor in Microbiology at GTC about his work with the endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoise.
We'll talk with Rob Lilwall, author of "Cycling Home from Siberia," which talks about the 3-year bicycle trek he took from Siberia, through Japan, China, Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, India, Pakistan, Iran and other co
For the UEC's monthly visit to the program, we speak with John LePoint, who is an expert on water harvesting for both homes and businesses.
We speak with Professor Anthony Alofsin, who is the most recent Johnson Distinguished Visitor to Carthage College.
We preview this Saturday's Kenosha broadcast of "Whad'ya Know" by talking with musician John Sieger, a longtime friend of Michael Feldman, who will be featured on the broadcast.
We discuss the situation in Japan with two professors from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside: Dr. Jeff Alexander (history) and Dr.
We spend most of the hour with Michael Feldman, creator and host of public radio's "Whadya Know," which has been on the air since 1985. . .
Our guest, Phillip Graves, calls into the question of the worth of market research in his new book "Consumerology: The Market Research Myth, the Truth about Consumers, and the Psychology of Shopping." In the book, he exten
We speak with journalist Deborah Potter, now executive director of the NewsLab, about a column she wrote for "American Journalism Review" in which she offers some thoughts about National Public Radio and how she hopes they
Part one of today's program is a conversation with Ann Hodgman, author of the Beat This! Cookbook, which has just been reprinted.
We speak with best-selling author Jennifer Lauck about her latest book, "Found: A Memoir," which explores her experience of being given up for adoption, her search for her birth mother, and how complex that reunion turned
We begin the hour with Cary Spivak, an investigative reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, about an article of his which just appeared in American Journalism Review which explores how newspapers across the country a
We spend part of the hour introducing you to a memorable yet largely forgotten figure from World War II as we speak with Douglas Waller, the author of "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spy Master who Created the O.S.S.
Our guest is former Kenoshan Charles Camosy, who is Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Fordham University. His new book is titled "Too Expensive to Treat?
Dr. Art Cyr, director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College, discusses the disaster in Japan and its possible ramifications - economic and otherwise - for the U.S. and other nations.
A look back at the legacy of Ronald Reagan with Mark Weinberg, co-author of "Ronald Reagan: 100 Years."
We talk about the amazing success story of Google - and why we should also be wary of that success - with media professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of "The Googlezation of Everything."
Special: We will devote the Monday morning show to replaying a recording of the recent meeting of the Racine Unified School Board at which was ratified a new contract with local teachers, in anticipation of huge cuts in sc
A look back at the bicycle and how it dramatically transformed the lives of women around the turn of the last century. We'll speak to the author of "Wheels of Change."
Jim Schatzman previews the upcoming concert of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin, which will be featuring the music of local singer/songwriter Jeff Ward.
We speak with Liel LIebewitz about his book "Fortunate Sons," which tells the story of 120 young Chinese teenagers who in the early 1870's made their way from China to the United States to receive a Western education.
We'll speak with award-winning NPR correspondent Julie McCarthy - originally from Kenosha - who covers the turbulent nations of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Our guest is Kay Gregor from the Racine Literacy Council, which has its major fundraiser - Irish Night for Literacy - coming up.
We preview an American Experience documentary airing tonight which tells the tragic story of the so-called Triangle Fire, the deadly fire which broke out in New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25th, 1911 -
Dr. Thomas Carr, paleontologist from Carthage; And part two was a preview of the 13th annual "Seuss-a-thon."
Laura Hillenbrand, author of "Unbroken." Also joining Greg on Monday's show is Joey Litman "The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History"
We spend most of the hour with Pulitzer Prize winning author Sandy Schiff, whose latest book "Cleopatra" is the #1- best-selling non-fiction book in the country right now.
Mark Hurtsgaard joins us to talk about his much-discussed new book "Hot" - which examines the dramatic ways in which the earth will continue to be affected by climate change and what all of us will be compelled to do in or
We'll look at the beautiful, majestic, endangered Polar Bear with Kieran Mulvaney, author of "The Great White Bear: A Natural and Unnatural History of the Polar Bear."
Conor Grennan, author of "Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal."
We'll get an update on a project in Racine called Advancing Family Assets. Guests are Jeff Neubauer and project facilitator Kimberly Payne.