From 2010 - Sean Manning, author/editor of "Bound to Last:  30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book."  Thirty of Manning's writer/friends talks about what book they cherish above all others - especially the physical book itself as an artifact.  (Where did they find it?  Or was it given to them by someone else? Did it enter their lives at a particularly crucial point in time? What has the book meant to them ever since?) 

Nicole London talks about the documentary films "Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom" and "Becoming Frederick Douglas." 

Part One: Cody Keenan, head speechwriter for President Barack Obama, and author of "Grace."  Part Two:  P.M. Forni, author of "The Thinking Life: Thriving in the Age of Distraction."  

From 2014 - Kenosha attorney Frank Parise talks about the experience he and his wife had of raising a son with Autism.  (This interview was done to publicize the couple's annual benefit for Autism Awareness.)  

From 2008- Rebecca Johnson (Vogue magazine) talks about her first novel:  "And Sometimes Why."  

For her October visit to the Morning Show, Nan Calvert's guest is John Zaborsky, president of the Botanical Club of Wisconsin.  Zaborsky is a research associate at the Wisconsin State Herbarium in Madison. 

John Hambrock and Anne Morse Hambrock talk about their comic strip "The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee" (which John writes and draws and Anne colors).  It debuted in newspapers across the country in 2006 - and two weeks ago, it won the Silver Reuben for Newspaper Comic Strips from the National Cartoonists Society, which is essentially the 'Oscar' for newspaper comic strips. 

Rachel Swartz, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about their current production - "The Wolves" - that concerns the young women on a high school soccer team.  After that, from the archives, a discussion about injuries in sports and recent breakthroughs in treatment with the author of "That's Gotta Hurt."  

James Schatzman, founder and artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin,  talks about the group's 36th season - which opens this Saturday evening with a concert called "The Spirit Sings."  

Christina LePort, author of "Dissection: a Novel."