WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

This is a newly-recorded interview with Tony Award-winning singer and actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, who performs on Saturday evening, August 10th, with the Chicago Philharmonic in the Music by the Lake series at George Williams College in Williams Bay, on the shores of beautiful Lake Geneva.   

This 2006 interview is among my very favorites.   It's with Edwin John Wintle, author of "Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir."   The name Tiffany in the title refers to the author's troubled niece,  who ended up coming to live with her Uncle Ed while she was in high school.   The book is a honest and illuminating chronicle of their relationship and how that relationship - which had always been close and affectionate - was challenged when she came to live with him.  

This interview with Tony Award-winning singer Brian Stokes Mitchell was recorded back in 2010, before his first appearance on the Music by the Lake series in Lake Geneva.  He is back for a concert in Lake Geneva on Saturday evening,  August 10th!    (A new interview with Brian Stokes Mitchell that I recently recorded will air on Monday morning - and will drop as a podcast later that day.)   

Our guests are Debbie Ford,  chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside ... and David Brukardt,  Interim Vice-President of Corporate Relations for the UW System .... talk about the presentation that they made at the University Industry Innovation Network conference in Helsinki, Finland earlier this summer.   

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for National Public Radio- and the host of the popular podcast "Pop Culture Happy Hour."   She has just published her first novel - titled "Evvie Drake Starts Over" - and it has earned rave reviews.   

The summer of 2019 is the 40th summer that the American Players Theater have presented first-rate open-air live theater performances in Spring Green, WI.   We speak with Brenda DaVita, artistic director of APT,  who has been with them for 25 years.  

In anticipation of this weekend's Relay for Life in Kenosha - a benefit for the American Cancer Society - we hear the stories of three cancer survivors:  Michelle Jenewein, Christina Spears, and Kathy Vescova.  We also speak with Matthew Elmer, Sr. Community Development Manager for the American Cancer Society.  

Cameron Swallow,  First Lady of Carthage College, returns to the Morning Show to talk about the organization Better Angels, which seeks to facilitate civil and meaningful dialogue between political conservatives ('reds') and liberals ('blues.')  A documentary film about Better Angels is being screened this Thursday at the Southwest Public Library in Kenosha-  and there will also be a screening in Union Grove on Monday.   Both screenings are free and open to the public.  

On the 90th birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we replay this conversation with best-selling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli in which he talks about his book "Jackie, Janet, Lee:  The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill."  

From the archives comes this fascinating look at the exploits of two outstanding high school wrestlers in Iowa- each of whom is hoping to win his fourth straight state championship title - an extraordinarily difficult achievement.  Mark Kreidler's marvelous book is titled "Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland."