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.
October 12, 2024
Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”
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One on One: The Great Floods of 1916 and 2024
D.G. Martin writes about several instances of major floods in North Carolina, and how people’s experiences with Helene is the latest chapter.
October 5, 2024
Chapel Hill’s Clarence Whitefield, 101, former Secretary of the Carolina Alumni Association died on March 24, 2024. Two years ago, on Who’s Talking, he talked about his memories of Chapel Hill and played his famous harmonica.
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One on One: Revisiting The War On Terror
In September 2001, After the attack on the World Trade Center, I wrote the following in this column and now offer it again as it speaks to today’s challenges: War. War. War. What is it about this word that excites us, that unifies us, that puts aside at least for a...
September 28, 2024
Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”
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One on One: Republican Kamikazes
The Wall Street Journal editors turned their newspaper’s attention to North Carolina last week. In a Sept. 19 article headlined “Republican Party Kamikazes,” The Journal editors wrote, “In North Carolina and D.C., the party’s suicidal impulses are on display.” If you...
September 21, 2024
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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One on One: A Penny for Your Thoughts
Could we live without pennies? For the most part we are already getting along using credit cards, electronic payments and other non-cash devices to bill and pay. Merchants, even at the farmers’ markets, happily take credit cards even though it costs them a little extra.
September 14, 2024
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: JD Vance and Me
Writing in the Sept. 5 Chicago Tribune, columnist Steve Chapman explained how “JD Vance keeps proving he’s a terrible choice for VP.”
