WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Robin Gerber's 2010 book is "Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman who Created Her."   The book chronicles the story of the Barbie Doll. 

This is a 2002 interview with Peter Howe, author of "Shooting Under Fire:  the World of the War Photographer."  

Dr. Jerald Mast, Associate Professor of Political Science at Carthage College,  talks about Climate Change - sketching the history of how long various scientists have been voicing concern about climate change,  outlining when it began to be discussed by politicians, and how the issue is being approached today in this highly polarized political landscape in which we currently find ourselves.   He also talks about the large field of Democratic candidates for president and how central the issue of climate change is likely to be in the 2020 presidential race. 

This is a conversation about the intriguing Kander & Ebb musical "Flora the Red Menace,"  which served as Liza Minelli's Broadway debut (for which she won a Tony Award) when it opened back in 1965 ... but which has not been nearly as well-known nor as often performed as Kander & Ebb's two biggest hits,  "Cabaret" and "Chicago."   I speak with Neil Scharnick, Molly Kampfer and Cassidy Skorija about Carthage College's production of the show, which opens this weekend.   Neil is the director- Molly and Cassidy, two senior music theater majors at Carthage, are in the cast. 

This is the monthly visit of Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College.  We are talking about the concept of "Smart Cities" and how that has played out in a competition sponsored by FoxConn.   The program actually begins with Racine mayor Cory Mason.  We also talk with two individuals who were second round winners in the competition- one a Gateway horticulture instructor and the other a Gateway student in the construction management program.  

In an interview from 2003,  we hear Simon Winchester talk about his book "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.)   The OED, which took more than 70 years to assemble (with the help of hundreds of volunteers) was intended to be the world's first completely comprehensive dictionary, encompassing every single word of the English language (both past and present.)  

We begin with Timothy Jay Smith and his novel "The Fourth Courier," which is set in Poland in the early 1990's, when that nation was moving from communism to capitalism but experiencing much tumult in the process.  We finish with a 2011 interview with Erin Morgenstern, whose debut novel "The Night Circus" was a blockbuster bestseller.  

Elissa Brent Weissman is the editor of "Our Story Begins:  Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators share Fun, Inspiring and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids."   

Entertainment writer James Neibaur has written fascinating books about a wide array of film-related topics.  In this interview, we discuss his book "The W.C. Fields Films."   

Martin Puchner's book is "The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization."  Puchner examines the critical role that language- and particularly written language- has played in human development and in human history.