WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We preview two big events at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside this weekend:  a UW-Parkside Orchestra concert featuring music from the Star Wars movies .... and the opening of a play by Lauren Gunderson titled "Silent Sky" that is based on the extraordinary life and accomplishments of three female astronomers from the turn of the last century.

This is a 2009 conversation with writer and historian James Perry, author of "Touched With Fire:  Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles that Made Them."   This book examines the Civil War battlefield experiences of five men - Ulysses S. Grant,  Rutherford B. Hayes,  James Garfield,  Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley - who would each go on to be elected President of the United States.    

From the archives comes this conversation withElaine Khosrova, author of "Butter: A Rich History."  

This 2007 conversation is with David Standish, the author of a fascinating book titled "Hollow Earth:  The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface."    The book examines the many and various ways in which human beings through the generations have been drawn to the notion that our planet is actually hollow, and that its central cavity holds all kinds of wonders - and perhaps terrors as well.  

To celebrate National Community Foundations Week, we speak with Robert Schneider from the Kenosha Community Foundation and Liz Powell from the Racine Community Foundation.  

From 2016:  Kostya Kennedy's book is "Lasting Impact:  One Team, One Season.  What Happens When Our Sons Play Football."  

From the archives:  Howard Sounes, author of "Fab: The Intimate Life of Paul McCartney." 

From the archives comes this 2006 interview with Margaret George, who has written an array of fictional biographies of such historical figures as Henry VIII, Cleopatra, and Nero.  This particular conversation centers on her book "Helen of Troy: A Novel." 

Nan Calvert's monthly environmental program is a conversation about the miracle of SOIL and the importance of preserving it.  Joining her are Jamie Patton, a soil expert with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Dave Giordano,  Executive Director of the Root Pike Watershed Initiative. 

Cornelius Bond's newly-published biography is titled "T. Rowe Price:  The Man, The Company, and the Investment Philosophy."