Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

We reconnect with composer Jim Stephenson to talk about his "Fanfare for Democracy," which was given its world premiere at President's Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20th.   

From the archives:  Dr. Sam Chell (who for many years was a Professor English at Carthage College) discusses the peculiar fascinating of Cult Films.

From 2018-  Anna Sabino, author of "Your Creative Career: Turn your passion into a fulfilling and financially rewarding lifestyle." 

Fawn Germer, author of "Coming Back: How to win the job you want when you've lost the job you need."   The book is focused on the challenge of people in mid or late career who find themselves displaced from employment and need to find ways to make themselves relevant and attractive in a tight job market.  

Dr. Munish Batra, author of the thriller "Animal."  Dr. Batra is a plastic surgeon, and we spend the first part of the interview talking about what plastic surgery is - and some of the public's misconceptions about it.  Dr. Batra has long been concerned with animal cruelty.  In his book,  a vigilante has taken it upon himself to gain revenge on behalf of animals that have in one way or another been mistreated.   

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

Best-selling author Laura Levitt talks about her book "The Objects that Remain," in which she explores the importance of physical objects that remain from traumas  we have suffered  ... be they traumas we have experienced individually or traumas suffered collectively (such as the Holocaust.) 

Part One:  Margot Lee Shetterly- author of "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians who helped win the Space Race." - and Joylette Hylick, daughter of Katherine Johnson (whose story was told in Hidden Figures)- author of a children's book about her mother called "One Step Further."   Part Two:  Dr. Manning Marable, author of "The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life."  

From 2003-  Frank DeFord, author of "An American Summer,"  a novel set in the summer of 1954 against the backdrop of the polio epidemic (a year before the announcement that Jonas Salk had overseen the development of a desperately-needed vaccine for the dreaded disease.) 

From 2016 - a conversation recorded with acclaimed composer Libby Larsen when she visited Carthage College for a week as composer-in-residence. 

Sarah Hays Coomer, author of "The Habit Trip:  A Fill-in-the-blank Journey to a Life on Purpose."  The book explores how habits are made and remade.  

For Nan Calvert's first monthly visit to the Morning Show in 2021,  she brings along Jason Meekma,  executive director of Focus on Community, a non-profit agency in Racine that works for Substance Abuse Prevention-  and is helping to implement a program called "Take Back Your Meds" that encourages and facilitates the safe disposal of unused medications.

From 2004-   Award-winning journalist Joseph Treaster (New York Times)  discusses "Paul Volcker: The Making of a Financial Legend."  Volcker was a highly-regarded economist who served as chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 until 1987.   Volcker passed away in 2019.   

From 2007 - "Carved in Sand:  When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife" by Cathryn Jakobson Ramin.   The author writes about something she herself experienced - significant and noticeable memory loss shortly after turning 40 -  and chronicles her efforts to deal with the problem with an array of different strategies.  She also talks about how memory functions for the typical person. 

Dr. Jerald Mast, Professor of Political Science at Carthage College,  offers analysis of the shocking events in our nation's capitol on January 6th - and shares thoughts on the challenges confronting the administration of incoming president Joe Biden.

From the archives: Steven Kleinedler, an editor for the American Heritage Dictionary

From 2000 -  a conversation with acclaimed novelist Jane Hamilton, author of "The Book of Ruth" and "A Map of the World."  

From 2008-  Joe Bageant talks about his book "Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War."   Bageant shares thoughts on what it has been like as a liberal to live in an extremely conservative community in rural Virginia.    This book is an illuminating look at the kind of lines along which America is so sharply divided today. 

Timothy Caulfield, author of "Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decision."  

Wte speak with Chana Gazit, director/producer of the documentary film "The Codebreaker" which airs next week on the PBS series American Experience.  It tells the largely-unknown story of Elisabeth Friedman, a talented codebreaker who played a role in the United States' victory in both World War I and World War II.   The government's files on her work were classified until very recently.