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[theme music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of The Morning Show, which airs every weekday morning between 8:00 and 9:00 on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College.

[theme music] And we welcome you to the Monday morning show on WGTD.

I'm Gregory Berg.

We are beginning, uh, the week today by talking about what promises to be an incredibly intriguing and incredibly timely play that is about to open at Carthage College and run for the next two weekends.

[gentle instrumental music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of The Morning Show, which airs every weekday morning between 8:00 and 9:00 on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College.

[upbeat instrumental music] And we welcome you to The Friday Morning Show on WGTD.

I'm Gregory Berg.

We are here to talk about a very exciting concert that is coming up tomorrow night by the Racine, uh, Choral Arts Society.

Thank you, Greg.

Thanks.

We'll finish out, uh, with, uh, a sampling of, uh, the beautiful piece that, uh, Pat Badger mentioned earlier, the, uh, Hymn for America by the late Stephen Paulus, uh, to finish out today's morning show here on WGTD.

We have loved you for your rivers.

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I'm Gregory Berg, host of "The Morning Show," which airs every weekday morning between 8 and 9 o'clock on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College.

And we welcome you to the Thursday morning show on WGTD.

I'm Gregory Berg.

This coming Saturday is the next high-definition simulcast from the Metropolitan Opera, and this time around, it is Giuseppe Verdi's highly dramatic operatic setting of Shakespeare's "Macbeth." I thought it would be fun to play, in anticipation of that simulcast, a conversation that I had back in 2009 with Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, talking about one of the most interesting books ever written about The Bard.

[theme music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of "The Morning Show," which airs every weekday morning between 8 and 9 o'clock on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College.

We spend the next few minutes, uh, speaking on WGTD's Morning Show with, uh, the author of a remarkable new book called "Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling." This is the story of someone who was known as The Mad Bomber, who terrorized New York City over the course of many, many years, setting off bombs in some of the most crowded public spaces in New York City.

Places like theaters and, uh, subway stations, a bus depot, a library.

And, uh, it was terrorizing for the public and intensely baffling and frustrating, uh, for the New York Police Department.

[ on-hold music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of The Morning Show, which airs every weekday morning between 8:00 and 9:00 o'clock on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha Campus of Gateway Technical College.

And we welcome you to the Monday Morning Show on WGTD.

I'm Gregory Berg.

We have two interviews for you today, and they both concern memoirs, memoirs very different from one another.

The first, a newly recorded interview, concerns a memoir about growing up in rural Montana, while the second, from The Morning Show archives, tells the story of the author's childhood in the nation of Liberia.

Here's part one of today's program.

And we will be spending the next few minutes of WGTD's Morning Show taken back in time and to a, a very different landscape, rural Montana, courtesy of a lovingly written book, a memoir called Sweetgrass: Growing Up in Montana.

My guest is Violet Suter Moran, and she indeed grew up on a farm, uh, just outside the tiny community of Sweetgrass, Montana.

[instrumental music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of The Morning Show, which airs every weekday morning between 8:00 and 9:00 o'clock on WGTD FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha Campus of Gateway Technical College.

This weekend is homecoming at Carthage College, and the festivities will include not only a celebration of homecoming itself, but also a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sebert Chapel.

In honor of that, I am pleased to re-share today a memorable conversation I was privileged to record back in 2001 with Bill Roth.

[theme music] I'm Gregory Berg, host of The Morning Show, which airs every weekday morning between 8:00 and 9:00 o'clock on WGTD-FM 91.1. We are an affiliate of Wisconsin Public Radio and National Public Radio, broadcasting from the Kenosha campus of Gateway Technical College.

You're listening to the Wednesday morning show on WGTD.

I'm Gregory Berg.

I'm pleased now to turn to a frequent visitor to The Morning Show, Brian Gill, who is, uh, not only a part of the theater faculty at the University of Wisconsin Parkside, but interim chair of the Theater Arts Department right now.