From 2006 - Fannie Flagg ("Fried Green Tomatoes"). discusses her novel "Can't Wait to Get to Heaven."

In honor of KUSD's production of "Les Miserables," we replay a conversation from 2014 in which stage director Doug Instenes and several cast members talk about the Racine Theater Guild's production of "Les Miserables." (The KUSD production of Les Miz runs for two weekends through March 15th.).

Part One: Tony Castro, author of 'Micky and Billy: The Glory and Tragedy of a Yankee Friendship." Part Two: from 2010- an excerpt from a conversation with Jane Leavy, author of "The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood."

We celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of Morton Gould (1913-1996), one of the most heralded American composers of the 20th century, in anticipation of a special concert of his music this Saturday evening, March 7th, by the Waukesha Area Symphony Band. Our guests: Dr. James Ripley, Professor of Music at Carthage College and the artistic director of the WASB, and Abby G. Burton, daughter of Morton Gould, who will be serving as an emcee and moderator for Saturday evening's concert. The program will consist of music that Gould wrote for film and television. Gould's many honors include a Grammy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a Kennedy Center Honor.

Doug Instenes talks about the Racine Theater Guild's production of "The Girl on the Train," which runs for the next two weekends.

We speak with Mary Kerr about the production of Thornton Wilder's classic play "Our Town," which is being performed this weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Kerr is directing the production.

We preview the Carthage Choir's upcoming spring tour and homecoming concert with Dr. Maggie Burk, director of choral activities at Carthage College, and Ella Bergfeld, a Carthage senior music theater/political science double major who is the Carthage Choir's president. The group will sing a homecoming concert on Monday evening, March 9th, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in downtown Kenosha. We also talk about the ensemble's participation in the most recent Midwestern American Choral Directors Association Conference in Milwaukee.

We talk with David Anderson, artistic director of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra, talks about the group's upcoming concert in which they will combine forces with the orchestra at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in a performance of Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony. The group is in the midst of their 25th anniversary season.

We speak with Richard McGlaughlin, who teaches Microbiology at Gateway Technical College, talks about the research that he has been doing in China over the last two decades - studying the endangered finless porpoise of the Yangtze River.

John Choi, director of choirs at Indian Trail High School in Kenosha, talks about his Chorale's appeartance at the Midwestern American Choral Directors Association Conference in Milwaukee.