50 years after the Voting Rights Act was passed, we rebroadcast our interview with the author of "Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America." The book explores two murders that h
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Continuing our observance of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we speak with the director of an extraordinary documentary about the disaster titled Witness: Katrina, which is comprised entirely of first-person vi
We commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with rebroadcasts of two interviews: New Orleans reporter Mark Lisheron reminisces about the challenge of covering such a disaster.
Best-selling author Buzz Bissinger, author of 'Friday Night Lights," which has just been republished in a special 25th anniversary edition.
Katie Workman, "Dinner Solved." All 100 recipes in this book feature so-called "Forks in the Road," in which each recipe is offered up in simple variations that allow it to be tailored to various people's different tastes
British historian Nick Bunker, author of "Edge of an Empire," which offers a British perspective on why Britain ended up battling the American colonists in the American Revolution.
Janice Kaplan, author of "The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life."
We open the hour with Matthew Diffee, a cartoonist whose works appears regularly in New Yorker magazine.
Following up on a conversation from exactly one week ago on native pollinators, we talk today with two representatives of the Kenosha/Racine Beekeepers Association: President Peter Poli and Past-President Tim Fulton join u
We catch up with Illinois author Fern Schumer Chapman, who has just written her third book about her mother - a Holocaust survivor.
Richard Cerasani, author of "Love Letters from Mount Rushmore- The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History." Cerasani's father Arthur worked on Mt. Rushmore as the monument was nearing completion.
UW-Parkside professor Jonathan Shailor joins us to offer an update on his Shakespeare Project (doing Shakespeare behind prison walls with inmates in the cast) and to talk about the upcoming local screening of a powerful an
Our guest, local author James Neibaur, returns to the program to talk about his most recent book, a chronicle Clint Eastwood westerns.
Carthage Professor Yuri Maltsev joins us to offer a reaction to Mr. Mezrich's book - and also offers his own thoughts about that particular period in recent Russian history.
We spend part of the hour with Ben Mazrich, author of "Once Upon aTime in Russia," which chronicles how a small group of Russian men managed to amass huge fortunes during the turbulent period following the dissolution of t
Roger Abrams, author of "Playing Tough," which examines the interaction between sports and politics.
We look back 20 years to the Heat Wave of 1995 which struck most of the Midwest - and which hit Chicago especially hard.
We rebroadcast our interview with Hank Greenspan, talking about the interviews he has done over the years with Holocaust survivors.
We preview this weekend's Pike River Rendezvous with Dan Joyce and Nancy Matthews from the Kenosha Public Museum.
A rebroadcast of our interview with Justin Martin, author of 'Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted." Olmsted was responsible for designing some of the most beautiful parks in America, including the extensive
Part One of the Morning Show features Science Entertainer Doktor Kaboom. Also, "One More Step" author Bonner Paddock who celebrates being an athlete with Cerebral Palsy.
Carol DeMarco, who has lived with her family on the shores of Brown's Lake in southeastern Wisconsin since 1976, talks about the fascinating history of the lake which she has just published.
Gateway Technical College president Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit to the program. One of his guests is the current District Star Ambassador for Gateway.
We preview this week's American Experience documentary "Blackout" which chronicles the dramatic 1977 blackout in New York City which darkened all five boroughs, left more than 7 million people without power, and led to wid
We preview this week's POV documentary "Web Junkie," which examines the serious problem of internet addiction amongst young males in China - and the aggressive strategy that the government there has adopted for combating t
Brian Murphy- author of "81 Days Below Zero." The book describes the ordeal of a pilot who crash landed in the Alaskan wilderness in 1943 and survived for 81 days.
Greg welcomes Marilynne Roach author of "Six Women of Salem." The book chronicles the story of the Salem Witch Trials from the vantage point of six women who went through the ordeal.
We spend most of the hour with a young man from Kenosha, Michael Huff, who represented Wisconsin in the recent USA Skills championships in Louisville, Kentucky. (He finished tenth in the nation in Prepared Speech.)
Our interviews this hour will include one with best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, whose latest suspense novel is titled "The Melody Lingers On."
Brandon Doman, author of "What's Your Story? True Experiences from Complete Strangers" Doman is the creator of something called The Strangers Project in which he gathers true stories from strangers.
Ray Forgianni and Melanie Hovey are in the studio to talk about the 2015 HarborMarket - the expansion of it - and special plans for the Fourth of July.
We preview this week's POV documentary "The Overnighters." The film is about a small town in North Dakota which has been turned upside down by the sudden development of a booming oil industry which has drawn many hundreds
We speak with best-selling author Earl Swift about his latest book, "Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream." Swift is able to trace the lineage of a particular 1957 Che
We speak with cartoonist John Hambrock (from Kenosha), responsible for the nationally syndicated "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee." Hambrock is just back from attending the 2015 National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award