Carthage Psychology Prof. Leslie Cameron talks about the research she's undertaking on the sense of smell and how that sense is affected by pregnancy.
The Morning Show
UW-Milwaukee Prof. Benjamin Campbell talks about his study of risky behavior among young males and the possibility that hormones are a significant factor in such behavior.
You'll meet the men who are going for their third straight victory in the Racine Literacy Council's annual spelling competition, which is happening Friday night, Nov. 14.
The program is pre-empted so that WGTD can hear an extended version of NPR's "Morning Edition" and its election coverage.
Sarah Lyall talks about her new book "The Anglo Files: A Field Guide to the British." She is a reporter for the New York Times London bureau and has lived in Great Britain for about twenty years.
Our guest is John Warne Monroe, author if "Laboratories of Faith," which examines the rise of seances, table turning, and other kinds of spiritual exploration in the 19th century, specifically in France.
We look back at a critical moment in Abraham Lincoln's life and career--the speech he gave in Peoria, Illinois in 1854 when he first spoke forcefully against slavery.
We talk about the play "Steel Magnolias" being currently presented at the Racine Theater Guild - and also speak with John McKinnon, a Kenosha native who is a curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum and partly responsible for a
We'll speak with the author of "1,000 Recordings you have to listen to before you die." It's a sequel to a similarly titled book about places to visit before you die.
Peter Mansoor, author of "Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq." He was executive officer to Commanding General David Petraeus - and served as commander of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
We talk with Phoebe Damrosch about her entertaining book "Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter." She was part of the staff of an upscale restaurtant, Per Se, as it opened in Manhattan, but her boo
We begin with the author of "Hello, Everybody- The Dawn of American Radio." Thebook examines the birth of radio and the extraordinary way in which we reshaped America as our very first instantaneous mass media.
We preview the weekend's Kenosha Symphony concert, which is a tribute to Kenosha's new Civil War Museum. We also preview tomorrow's tour of Quilts on Barns in Racine County with Kathi Wilson.
Our guest is Larry Olmsted, author of "Getting into Guinness: One Man's Longest, Fastest, Highest Journey Inside the World's Most Famous Record Book."
We talk about mental illness with Jack Rose, President of the Kenosha County Chapter of NAMI.Also, we speak with Ron Francis, School Resource/ Crime Prevention Officer for the Kenosha Police Department, who has undergone s
We speak with retired librarian Vicki Myron, the author of "Dewey," which tells the true story of the cat who became an integral and even beloved feature of the public library in Spencer, Iowa for almost two decades.
Our guest is Kathy Eden, a Professor of Classics and English Literature at Columbia University, who was a Johnson DIstinguished Visitor to Carthage.
We're joined by Mary Kromme, Associate Professor of Business Adminstration and Jerry Mast, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carthage College- talking about a timely series of presentations coming up at Carthage'
GTC President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program, and will be joined by Kenosha County Executive Jim Kreuser.
We speak with Mort Zachter, the author of the best-selling book "Dough-A Memoir." Zachter's bachelor uncles, who ran a day-old baked goods store in Manhattan for decades seemed to be just scraping by--but turned out to be
Marcus Leonard, author of "Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing forever, and Became an American Icon Along the way." Leonard comes to Carthage Tuesday evening at the invitation of the C
We open the program with best-selling author Robert Kurson, whose most recent book, "Crashing Through" has just been released in paperback.
Michael Harvey, co-creator of the television show "Cold Case Files" who is now a best-selling novelist.
Our guest is Jo Boaler, author of "What's Math Got to do With It" in which she examines the way in which mathematics is taught in this country and some exceptional schools where she believes it is being taught most effecti
We speak with one of the co-authors of "Buzzed: The Straight Facts about the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy."
In the wake of the just-completed Olympic Games in Beijing, we talk to W. Hodding Carter, 45, a former all-American swimmer who made an earnest effort to make the U.S. Olympic Team.
We examine Guillian Beret Syndrome, a mysterious disorder which often causes complete paralysis and can cause death.
"The Morning Show is to Intelligent Conversation what Mount Everest is to Altitude." We talk with Dr.
Out guest is historian Noah Andre Trudeau, author of "Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea." Trudeau has written what most experts regard as the definitive account of the devastating campaign of General William Tecum
On the first day of his retirement we speak with Dr. Jack Keating about his ten years as chancellor of UW-P.
This Sunday marks the one-month anniversary of the death of Randy Pausch, author of the runaway bestseller "The Last Lecture." We hear from his co-author Jeffrey Zaslow in a new interview recorded since his friend's death.
More from Mary Ellen Geist, author of "Measure of the Heart." Also, we explore some of the biology behind Alzheimer's and the damage it causes with the author of "The Forgetting." An award-winning documentary of the same n
We speak with award-winning radio journalist Mary Ellen Geist, who chose to give up a tremendously successful broadcasting career in order to return home and help care for her father, who is contending with Alzheimer's.
In the midst of the XXIX Olympiad, we speak with one of America's greatest Olympic champhions, speed skater Eric Heiden--born and raised right here in Wisconsin.
The topic is suicide and the story is of one woman's attempt to make sense of her father's death. Joan Wickersham is the author of "The Suicide Index: Putting my Father's death in Order."
We talk about Rosa Raisa, a hugely successful opera singer in the early 20th century whose musical home was Chicago. We speak with Charles Mintzer, author of the definitive biography of this amazing singer.
More from Jed Horne, talking about "Breach of Faith." We fill out the hour with Christopher Cooper, whose book "Disaster" focuses specifically on the missteps of FEMA in responding to Katrina.
We preview this weekend's Pike River Rendezvous with the Kenosha Nancy Matthews and one of the event's re-enactors, Max the Tinker.
We rebroadcast our interview with J.R. Moehringer, author of the best-selling memoir " The Tender Bar," which has just been released in paperback.
We preview the next P.O.V. documentary airing tonight on PBS, and preview the Racine Theater Guild's newest production, "Side by Side by Sondheim," which opens this Friday night.
Part two of our interview with Brooks Hansen, author of the "The Brotherhood of Joseph: A Father's Memoir of Infertility and Adoption in the 21st Century." Also, the newest book from the authors of "The Nannie Diaries."
Our guest is Brooks Hansen, author of the "The Brotherhood of Joseph: A Father's Memoir of Infertility and Adoption in the 21st Century." This book is at times heartbreaking - at other times hilariously fun - and always il