This is my most recent interview with best-selling author Deborah Tannen, talking about her most recent book: a memoir titled "Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War One and My Quest to Follow." 

Dr. Art Cyr-  Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business and Director of the Clausen Center.   

Dr. Inder Paul Singh,  President of the Eye Centers of Kenosha and Racine.  

We get a COVID-19 update from Carlo Nevicosi,  Deputy Director of the Walworth County Health Department.   

Brad Balukjian, author of "The Wax Pack:  On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife."   Balukjian, an avid baseball card collector when he was young,  ordered a vintage pack of Topp's Baseball Cards and then crisscrossed the country in an attempt to connect with the dozen baseball players pictured on those particular cards.  

From 1995 comes this interview with Alice Parker, one of America's most beloved and admired choral composers and arrangers - and a close collaborator with conductor Robert Shaw for many years.   This interview was recorded during a visit that Parker paid to Carthage College as a guest artist.  Her stay included the world premiere of a work commissioned for Carthage's campus organist at the time, Dr. Susan Klozbach. 

From 2004-  Edward Conlon's "Blue Blood," his remarkable book about New York City police officers.  

Marc Cushman has written a new series of three books titled "These are the Voyages: Gene Rodenberry, Star Trek in the 1970's."  These books focus on the years after Star Trek: the Original Series was cancelled by NBC.   It was during the 1970's that the Star Trek phenomenon was truly born.  This interview focuses in particular on the groundbreaking Star Trek conventions as well as Star Trek's return to television in the form of an award-winning animated series.  

Valerie Tripp is one of the country's most successful and highly-regarded authors of fiction for young readers.   (She has written many of the books in the American Girl series.)   She has just begun a new series for National Geographic, and the first book is titled "Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Absolute Hero."  

We talk with Jo Frost, well-known to millions as the Supernanny.   Among other things, we talk about some of the special challenges that parents are facing during this time of COVID-19.