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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 on “Who’s Talking,” you’ll hear his conversations with guests practically guaranteed to provide some of the most interesting back-and-forth you’ll hear all weekend.

 

December 13, 2025

Author, UNC Administrator and Radio Show Host, D.G. Martin passed away earlier this week. Leading a remarkable life, D.G. was a cherished contributor to 97.9 The Hill WCHL, and a treasure to this community, and the State of North Carolina.

In D.G.’s honor, we are airing one of his favorite holiday episodes of Who’s Talking,  a 2009 interview with retired UNC-Chapel Hill professor, Thomas Warburton, explaining the power of Handel’s Messiah.  

June 21, 2025

The legendary UNC President William Friday died IN 2012. In this program Friday reviewed 40 years of his hosting UNC-TV’s North Carolina People and he talks about some of the “unsung North Carolina heroes” who appeared on his program.

June 14, 2025

Willis Whichard, lawyer, legislator, Supreme Court justice, and law school dean, is the author of “A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University.” He talks about his new book and Swain, who was a lawyer, judge, governor, and university president.” Whichard, who himself has been a legislator, judge, supreme court justice, and law school dean explains Swain’s contributions to the university and the state.

May 17, 2025

Larry Miller, one of the greatest of the great Tar Heel basketball players of all time died a few day ago. On Who’s Talking in 2020, Larry talked about how he got to Chapel Hill, his times playing for Coach Smith, and what happened afterwards. He discussed his work with author Stephen Demorest, author of the book, “Larry Miller Time: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty.”

May 3, 2025

Willis Whichard, lawyer, legislator, Supreme Court justice, and lawschool dean, is the author of “A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University.” He talks about his new book and Swain, who was a lawyer, judge, governor, and university president.” Whichard, who himself has been a legislator, judge, supreme court justice, and law school dean explains Swain’s contributions to the university and the state.

April 12, 2025

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.

April 5, 2025

Willis Whichard, lawyer, legislator, Supreme Court justice, and law school dean, is the author of “A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain, Nineteenth-Century North Carolina, and Their University.” He talks about his new book and Swain, who was a lawyer, judge, governor, and university president.” Whichard, who himself has been a legislator, judge, supreme court justice, and law school dean explains Swain’s contributions to the university and the state.

March 22, 2025

Getting to Carolina: The late Lennie Rosenbluth, hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about how and why he came to Carolina and what it was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.

February 8th, 2025

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”

February 1, 2025

This week on Who’s Talking, we’re airing an episode featuring the late William Leuchtenburg, following his passing a few days ago. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was one of the leading historians of the American Presidency and a frequent guest on this program. He talks about the tasks and challenges new presidents face.

January 25, 2025

Chapel Hill’s 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, talks about the tasks and challenges new Presidents face.

January 4, 2025

Getting to Carolina: The late Lennie Rosenbluth, hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about how and why he came to Carolina and what it was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.

December 21, 2024

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”.

December 7, 2024

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.”

November 23, 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).

November 16, 2024

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.

November 9, 2024

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.

October 19, 2024

Bill Kirwan, longtime head of the library at Western Carolina University, now retired in Chapel Hill, insists that that he is not a expert, but only a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. But he knows a lot and shares some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking.

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.

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)

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.”

August 17, 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.

July 27, 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)

July 13, 2024

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.

July 6, 2024

97.9 The Hill 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.

June 22, 2024

Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, is 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)”

June 15, 2024

Bill Kirwan, longtime head of the library at Western Carolina University, now retired in Chapel Hill, insists that that he is not an expert, but only a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. But he knows a lot and shares some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking.

May 25, 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)

May 11, 2024

This week, D.G. Martin is joined by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism. They talk about her new book, “Jerusalem through the Ages: From Its Beginning to the Crusades”.

May 4, 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).

April 27, 2024

Bill Kirwan, longtime head of the library at Western Carolina University, now retired in Chapel Hill, insists that that he is not an expert, but only a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. But he knows a lot and shares some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking.

April 20, 2024

This week, 97.9 The Hill is airing conversations with the late Coach Lefty Driesell. Coach Driesell had a legendary career at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament. Coach Driesell and D.G. also talk about Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

April 13, 2024

WCHL is airing conversations with the late Coach Lefty Driesell. Coach Driesell 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. They also discuss Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

April 6, 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.

(A Celebration of Clarence’s Life will be held April 21, 2024, at Carolina Meadows Auditorium in Chapel Hill.)

February 24, 2024

97.9 The Hill WCHL is airing conversations with Coach Lefty Driesell, who died recently. He 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

November 25, 2023

From Thanksgiving 2005, the late William Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, and Robert Dunham, former minister of the University Presbyterian Church, remember Thanksgivings as a time of thankfulness, of family gatherings, of celebrations, of anticipation, tension—and of reflection.

October 14, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness is the subject of the current UNC-Alumni Magazine. She is Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. She recently talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel. Including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

September 23, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. She recently talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club talks about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor, where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

September 16, 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.”

September 2, 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.

August 26, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her more than 10 years work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor and the lessons that have been learned and her upcoming book on Jerusalem.

August 19, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. She recently talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club talks about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor, where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

May 27, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. On Friday March 24 she talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club talks about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor, where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

May 13, 2023

Chapel Hill’s 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”.

April 22, 2023

Bill Kirwan, longtime head of the library at Western Carolina University, now retired in Chapel Hill, insists that that he is not an expert, but only a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. But he knows a lot and shares some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking

April 15, 2023

Chapel Hill’s 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”.

April 8, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. On Friday March 24 she talked to the Chapel Hill Rotary Club talks about the latest in her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor, where last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

April 1, 2023

Bill Kirwan, longtime head of the library at Western Carolina University, now retired in Chapel Hill, insists that that he is not an expert, but only a fan of thoroughbred horse racing. But he knows a lot and shares some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking.

March 18, 2023

Chapel Hill’s 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”.

March 11, 2023

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. talks about the latest about her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor

Where this year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.

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