When you’re talking with DG Martin, you’re talking to a veteran, lawyer, politician, administrator and author. DG’s been around the block a few times and you’ll hear his conversations with guests practically guaranteed to provide some of the most interesting back-and-forth you’ll hear all weekend.
One on One: North Carolina’s Most Famous Person
Who is the most famous living North Carolinian? Michael Jordan? Stephen Curry? Zach Galifianakis? Dale Earnhardt Jr.? Richard Petty? Franklin Graham? Others? My answer today: Greensboro native Rhiannon Giddens, who was a part of my recent column about Omar ibn Said,...
August 12, 2023
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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One on One: Stephen Curry, Underrated No More
In my hometown of Davidson, almost everyone worships the same god. A basketball playing-god named Stephen Curry. When Curry first came to town in 2006, he worked many miracles and gained many followers as he led the Davidson College Wildcats basketball team. He was...
August 5, 2023
Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America.”
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One on One: Slave and Scholar
I wonder how to teach the story of Omar ibn Said, a scholar of Islam, who was captured and taken from his African home in what is now Senegal.
July 29, 2023
Chapel Hill’s Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author or author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.
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One on One: How The War Will End
We don’t know how the war in Ukraine will end, but some day and somehow there will be some kind of conclusion. What then? What seems most likely now is that the war will become a war of attrition with both sides digging trenches, holding on defensively and neither...
July 22, 2023
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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One on One: Books That Bookwatch Would Have Featured
What books are you featuring on PBS-NC’s North Carolina Bookwatch this season? I still get this question even though Bookwatch, the program about North Carolina books and authors that I hosted, ended its 23-year run almost two years ago. Here are some of the North...
One on One: Unsolicited Advice for the President
President Biden, you’ve won countless elections and I’ve won none. So why in the world do I think I can tell you anything you don’t already know? Just be patient with me and let me get these things off my chest, hoping they may in some way be helpful. Here goes. 1....
