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We speak with Stephanie Deutsch, author of "You Need a Schoolhouse," which celebrates the legacy and unlikely partnership of former slave Booker T.

We preview an excellent documentary about the Amish which will air Tuesday night on the PBS series "American Experience."

We talk about Patch.com, a community-specific news and information platform which provides local news coverage to individual towns and communities.

We explore the experience of a young artist from Philadelphia named Christian Patchell who was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue.

We spend part of the program with UW-Parkside's Jamie Cheatham talking about the production of "Great Expectations" that is about to open.

Our guest is Nancy McCabe, author of "Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to my Daughter's Birthplace in China." The author writes of the experience of traveling to China with her adopted adolescent daughter to try

We preview "Clinton," a two-part documentary airing tonight and tomorrow night on the PBS series "American Experience." We'll speak with writer-director-producer Barak Goodman.

We speak to Steven Gillon, Resident Historian for the History Channel, author of "The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and Rivalry that Defined America."

We begin with Adam Lashinsky, author of "Inside Apple: How America's Most Advanced and Secretive Company Really Works." We finish out the hour with Barbara Hahn, author of "Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commo

Ray Forgianni, Curzio Caravati and Melanie Hovey will be in the studio to talk about Kenosha's Lakeside Marketplace.

In honor of Abraham Lincoln, we speak with Jackie Hogan, author of "Lincoln, Inc.: Selling the Sixteenth President in Contemporary America." We also speak with Nancy Gagliardi, publications editor for Weight Watchers, who

Our guest is Michael Lemov, author of "People's Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights." Moss is a now largely forgotten U.S.

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht pays his monthly visit - and will be joined by Scott Pierce, District Administrator of the Central High School District of Westosha.

It's the monthly visit of the UEC. Nan Calvert joins us, along with Racine County Conservationist Chad Sampson.

Postponed from last week: Patricia Briggs, curator of art galleries at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, joins us - along with guest artist Monica Haller, who has been in the area working with veterans on an exciting b

Our guest is Mike Lemov, author of "The People's Warrior," which looks back on the political career of U.S.

Professor Art Cyr from Carthage College joins us to share analysis of current events.

We air an interview recorded with up and coming opera singer Amber Wagner.

We'll introduce you to Patricia Briggs, Gallery Director and Curator at the University of Wisconsin- Parkside.

The topic is Risk Management in the world of investment, and we discuss it with James Peterson, a former legal counsel for Arthur Anderson, who has just finished teaching a course on the topic at Carthage.

Our guest is Jonathan Gruber, author of "Health Care Reform: What it is, Why it's necessary, how it works." Gruber was one of the major advisors to then-governor Mitt Romney in the health care reform package which became l

We spend most of the program talking about RUAF, the Racine United Arts Fund, and their newest fundraising appeal.

We'll talk with Scott Frost, a Kenosha native / Tremper graduate / UW-Stevens Point student who is doing exciting work in theater- and has been doing the costumes for the Kenosha Unified production of "Tarzan." Tonight kic

Carol Sabbar, Director of Information Services - and Lizz Zitron, Outreach Librarian - from Carthage College will join us for a discussion of SOPA and PIPA, the proposed legislation for combating online piracy that has pro

We spend most of the hour with Dr.

We discuss the spectacular new Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for Arts and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, which is dedicated this coming Saturday.

We air our interview with John Campbell, author of the bestselling book "The Iron Lady" about former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

We'll spend part of the hour with John Campbell, author of "The Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher- from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister." Campbell served as a special consultant for the new film starring Meryl Streep.

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's newest production, "Glorious," which is based on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins, a well-to-do New Yorker who loved to sing recitals even though she was in fact a truly terrible si

Our guest, Paul Oppenheimer, is author of "Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology."

Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College, pays his monthly visit to the program. The topic is Service Learning.

We begin with Frederick Kempe, author of "Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth." We finish the hour with Stephen Ives, director of the documentary "Custer's Last Stand," which airs tomorr

Christopher McDougall, author of "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World has Never Seen."

For the monthly visit of the UEC (the United Environmental Council) we speak with Racine County Conservationist Chad Sampson.

Jill Anna Ponasik, Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Opera Theater, talking about their next production - a fascinating new super hero opera titled "Fortuna, the Time Bender vs.

Dr. Art Cyr, Director of the Clausen Center at Carthage, joins us to talk about recent events- including the recent death of the leader of North Korea.

Janny Scott, author of "A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother." Also, Max Essex - co-author of "Saturday is for Funerals" - a look at the AIDS epidemic in Botswana.

We speak with a young tenor named Alek Schrader, a 2007 winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions who was featured prominently in Susan Froemke's award-winning documentary "The Audition." He is about to star in performanc

In our first new morning show interview of the year, we preview this weekend's performances in Racine of "Amahl and the Night Visitors," which are being presented as a benefit for SEWPA- the Southeast Wisconsin Performing

We rebroadcast our interview with actor Alan Arkin, talking with him about his highly regarded memoir.

In another rebroadcast from 2011 - We hear again from Douglas Edwards, author of "I'm Feeling Lucky," which recounts his experiences as an employee at Google in its exciting early years.

We begin the year with a couple of rebroadcasts of memorable interviews from 2011- starting off with Jane Leavy, author of "The Last Boy: Micky Mantle and the End of America's Childhood."

Gary Tillery, author of "Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison."

Replaying our previous interview with Miss Wisconsin Laura Kaeppler.

Professor Lloyd Dumas, author of "The Peacekeeping Economy: Using Economic Relationships to Build a more Peaceful, Prosperous and Secure World."

Erin Aubry Kaplan, author of "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista."

Harvey Frommer, author of "Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the House of the Boston Red Sox."

We'll preview Sunday afternoon's concert of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra featuring guest conductor Alan Heatherington.

It's the monthly visit of the UEC- the United Environmental Council. We'll also talk with environmental activist Erin Brockovich about her latest book, titled "Hot Water."

Our guest is a gifted African-American writer named Erin Aubry Kaplan, who has collected some of her most highly regarded essays into a book titled "Black Talk, Blue Thoughts, and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a