Weekend Shows

Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.

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Larry Miller, one of the greatest of the great Tar Heel basketball players of all time, talks about how he got to Chapel Hill, his times playing for Coach Smith, and what happened afterwards. He also discusses his work with author Stephen Demorest on the new book, “Larry Miller Time: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty”.

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Marcie Cohen Ferris, Interim Director Center for the Study of the American South, talks about the importance of food in North Carolina history and culture and her book. “Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor.”

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This week, D.G. Martin is joined by William Leuchtenburg, Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, leading historian of the American Presidency and frequent guest on this program.

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Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her new book, “Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America” (2024).

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WCHL is airing conversations Coach Lefty Driesell, who died recently, was the legendary basketball coach at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament, about Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

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WCHL is airing conversations Coach Lefty Driesell, who died recently, was the legendary basketball coach at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament, about Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

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Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

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