From 2007 - Kristin Espinasse, author of "Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France."

From the spring of 1999, entertainment legend Steve Allen (1921-2000) .... the creator of The Tonight Show, a prolific author and composer. He visited both Wingspread and Carthage College in the spring of 1999. This interview is not only special because of Mr. Allen - but also because it was one of the only interviews I conducted with my friend and WGTD colleague Bill Guy, the creator of the Morning Show. Sadly, Bill died just a few months after this interview was recorded.

From 2018, Martin Osterdahl, author of "Ask no Mercy" (a Max Anger novel).

Author Josh Haven discusses his newest novel, "The Siberia Job," a thriller set in Russia in the tumultuous period following the fall of the old Soviet Union.

Part One- Ariane Szu-Tu, co-editor of National Geographic's Kids Almanac 2024. Part Two- (from the archives) Trevor Corson, author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean."

From 2006 - a conversation with Dr. Don Kummings (1940-2017), who for 36 years was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and one the country's leading authorities on Walt Whitman. The occasion of this conversation was the publication of Professor Kummings' fourth book about Whitman, A COMPANION TO WALT WHITMAN.

From the archives: Here is the interview I was privileged to do with Daniel Ellsberg back in 2010 shortly before the PBS telecast of the documentary film "The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." (Mr. Ellsberg passed away on June 16th at the age of 92.)

Part one- Stanley Coren, author of "How Dogs Think: What the world looks like to them and why they act the way they do." Part two- Emily Yoffe, author of "What the dog did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner."

For Father's Day..... Tim O'Brien discusses his memoir "Dad's Maybe Book," in which he talks about the experience of becoming a father quite late in life. The book was published- and the interview was recorded- in 2019.

An archival conversation about gender stereotypes in higher education with Dr. Sylvia Beyer, a longtime Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.