From 2012-   Marilyn Yalom discusses her book "How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance."   

Thea Keshavarzi, president of the Kenosha Symphony, talks about the concert that the KSO plans to perform this coming Saturday night at Kemper Center- and explains the precautions being taken to keep both the musicians and audience members safe.  

This brief interview is with Sonia Monzano, well-known as Maria on television's Sesame Street, talking about her newest book,  "A World Together," which celebrates diversity.  

We speak with poet and writer Paige Towler, co-author of "Girls Can!  Smash Stereotypes, Defy Expectations and Make History!"  

For Mental Health Awareness Week, we speak with Jack Rose, president of the Kenosha County chapter of NAMI- the National Alliance for Mental Illness. 

Darin Strauss's novel is titled "The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story."   This intriguing book is a work of fiction but carefully based on the life and career of the legendary Lucille Ball - and on what she was experiencing both professionally and personally in the difficult years immediately preceding the launching of "I Love Lucy." 

From 2005-  David Baron discusses his book "The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator's Deadly Return to Suburban America."   The book chronicles a situation in Boulder, Colorado in which cougars from the wild began entering residential neighborhoods in increasing numbers.  The story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when humans continue to encroach on the habitat of animals like the cougar without regard for the consequences. 

We talk about Volume Three of Marc Cushman's series "These are the Voyages: Gene Rodenberry and Star Trek in the 1970's."  This volume focuses on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, which marked the celebrated franchise's debut on the big screen -  a film that was enormously expensive and complicated - and about which opinion remains sharply divided.  

From 2016 comes this conversation with Leonard Mlodinow, one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, and the author of "The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos."   

Nature writer Ted Williams's book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day earlier this year is titled "Earth Almanac:  A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from The Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale."