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.
March 4, 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.
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February 25, 2023
Jeffery Deaver, the bestselling author of more than 30 novels, talks about his latest, “The Midnight Lock”, and why he likes to live in Chapel Hill.
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February 18, 2023
Chapel Hill’s John Rosenthal, internationally known photographer, talks about how the memory of a long dead girl still haunts him and led to his book “Searching for Amylu Danzer”.
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February 11, 2023
Chapel Hill’s 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.”
Whichard 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.
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January 28, 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 last year’s team uncovered an unprecedented depiction of two female biblical heroes.
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January 21, 2023
Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.
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January 14, 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.
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January 7, 2023
Getting to Carolina: Lennie Rosenbluth who died recently was the hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about his story of how and why he came to Carolina and what is was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.
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December 24, 2022
Retired UNC-Chapel Hill professor Thomas Warburton explaining the power of Handel’s Messiah.
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December 17, 2022
James and Susan Moeser, our Chapel Hill neighbors, former chancellor, and talented musicians and teachers, join D.G. Martin with selections of their favorite Christmas music.
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December 10, 2022
Charles Ludington, teaching Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University, talks about his article in “The American Scholar, “The War on Christmas: A brief history of Yuletide in America”.
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December 3, 2022
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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November 26, 2022
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 Thanksgiving as a time of thankfulness, of family gatherings, of celebrations, of anticipation, tension—and of reflection.
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November 19, 2022
Chapel Hill’s 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.”
Whichard 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.
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November 12, 2022
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 will share some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking!
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November 5, 2022
Clarence Whitefield, former Secretary of the Carolina Alumni Association who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, talks about his memories of Chapel Hill and plays his famous harmonica
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October 29, 2022
UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks 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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October 22, 2022
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.
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October 15, 2022
Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.
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October 8, 2022
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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October 1, 2022
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, and about his work with author Stephen Demorest on the book, “Larry Miller Time: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty.”
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September 24, 2022
Guest: Jodi Magness
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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September 17, 2022
Jeffery Deaver, the bestselling author of more than 30 novels, talks about his latest book, “The
Midnight Lock,” and why he likes to live in Chapel Hill.
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September 3, 2022
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 will share some of it with us on WCHL’s Who’s Talking
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August 27, 2022
Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”
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August 20, 2022
Jeffery Deaver, the bestselling author of more than 30 novels, talks about his latest book, “The Midnight Lock,” and why he likes to live in Chapel Hill.
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August 6, 2022
Dale Follwell, North Carolina State Treasurer, talks about the challenges he faces in a continuing battle with the state’s hospitals about cost of services and maintaining North Carolina’s credit worthiness
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July 30, 2022
Landis Wade, Writer • Podcaster • Speaker and Recovering Trial Lawyer, talks about writing books, promoting his writing and those of others on his podcasts and author of “Deadly Declarations”, about the new book and the writing of books and promoting his writing and those of others on his podcasts.
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July 23, 2022
David Silkenat, a senior lecturer in American history at the University of Edinburgh, and author of “Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South,” talks about the new book and the impact of slavery on the environment in the South.
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July 16, 2022
Landis Wade, writer, podcaster, speaker and recovering trial lawyer, talks about writing books, promoting his writing and those of others on his podcasts. Author of “Deadly Declarations”.
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July 9, 2022
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July 1, 2022
Chapel Hill’s Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.
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June 25, 2022
Lennie Rosenbluth, who died recently, was the hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about his story of how and why he came to Carolina and what is was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.
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June 18, 2022
Clarence Whitefield, former Secretary of the Carolina Alumni Association who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, talks about his memories of Chapel Hill and plays his famous harmonica.
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June 11, 2022
Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”
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June 4, 2022
Richard Hendel, a revered book designer and the author of “Aspects of Contemporary Book Design” and “On Book Design,” talks about the art and science of book design.
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May 28, 2022
Howard Covington, author of “Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase”, He talks about the new book and the University of North Carolina during the years between World War I and the Great Depression
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May 14, 2022
On May 20, North Carolina celebrates the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. This weekend we will re-air earlier programs with Scott Syfert and Marion Redd who discussed the lingering question of whether the Declaration is fact or fiction.
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May 7, 2022
Chapel Hill newcomer Frank Bruni, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a professor of public policy at Duke University, talks about his new book, “The Beauty of Dusk”, about the new book talks about dealing with his diminished vision and the possibility of going totally blind.
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April 30, 2022
Clarence Whitefield, former Secretary of the Carolina Alumni Association who recently celebrated his 100th birthday, talks about his memories of Chapel Hill and plays his famous harmonica.
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April 23, 2022
Joseph Flora, UNC-CH Emeritus Professor of English and for 30 years leader of the Christianity and Literature class at University Methodist Church, about religious themes in Lee Smith’s short story collection Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and Other Stories.
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April 16, 2022
Chapel Hill’s Lennie Rosenbluth, hero of the 1957 championship victory over the University of Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain 54–53 in triple overtime, talks about his story of how and why he came to Carolina and what is was like to play for Coach Frank McGuire.
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April 9, 2022
Chapel Hill new comer Frank Bruni, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a professor of public policy at Duke University, talks about his new book, “The Beauty of Dusk”, about the new book talks about dealing with his diminished vision and the possibility of going totally blind.
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April 2, 2022
Will Blythe, author of “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry,” about that book and how, if at all, his feelings about UNC and Duke basketball and their rivalry have changed.
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March 26, 2022
Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, the author of “The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, A Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice,” about the new book and how his unlikely friendship with a doctor who shared his last name led to a fight to free a killer from prison.
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March 19, 2022
Will Blythe, author of “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry,” about that book and how, if at all, his feelings about UNC and Duke basketball and their rivalry have changed.
NOTE: My interview with Frank Bruni about new book, “The Beauty of Dusk,” is available for listening at:
https://chapelboro.com/category/wchl/weekend-shows/whos-talking
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March 5, 2022
Chapel Hill new comer Frank Bruni, contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a professor of public policy at Duke University, talks about his new book, “The Beauty of Dusk”, about the new book talks about dealing with his diminished vision and the possibility of going totally blind.
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February 26, 2022
State Treasurer Dale Folwell talks about his bitter battle with the state’s largest hospitals about costs, prices, accountability, and transparency
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February 12, 2022
Barbara Osborne talks about the name, image, and likeness (NIL) activities of college athletes and the new challenges for athletes, coaches, and universities Osborne holds appointments in the department of Exercise and Sport Science where she directs the Sport Administration graduate program and at the UNC Law School, where her teaching and research interests include sport law, legal issues in college athletics, and discrimination.
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February 5, 2022
Will Blythe, author of the 2009 classic, “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry.” About that book and how, if at all, his feelings about UNC and Duke basketball and their rivalry have changed.
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January 29, 2022
Howard Manning, who for nearly 20 years, until his retirement in 2016 presided over the Leandro v. State case, talks about
the challenges that remain to ensure that all North Carolina children receive a sound education as provided by the North Carolina constitution, and why it is important for folks in Chapel Hill-Carrboro and in every community in the state.
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January 22, 2022
Chapel Hill’s Walter Bennett, author of The Last First Kiss, talks about his book and the challenges a retired lawyer faces when writing fiction.
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January 15, 2022
Jeffery Deaver, the bestselling author of more than 30 novels, talks about his latest, “The Midnight Lock,” book and why he likes to live in Chapel Hill
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January 8, 2022
John Hood, a member of the John Locke Foundation board member and author of the novel “Mountain Folk,” a historical fantasy set during the American Revolution (MountainFolkBook.com) about the question of whether a college education is worth the cost–a question he raised in a recent newspaper column.
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January 1, 2022
Geeta Kapur, a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, talks about her book, “To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University”, which is a comprehensive look at the University’s history of systemic racism from 1776, when the idea of a public university was first conceptualized, up until the end of 2020.
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December 25, 2021
John Hood, a member of the John Locke Foundation board member and author of the novel “Mountain Folk,” a historical fantasy set during the American Revolution (MountainFolkBook.com) about the question of whether a college education is worth the cost–a question he raised in a recent newspaper column.
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December 18, 2021
Chapel Hill’s Gary Gilleskie, Executive Director of Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, talks about how North Carolina is developing and training skilled professionals for the biomanufacturing industry and creating the best-trained, most industry-focused work force possible.
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December 11, 2021
Christopher Clemens, the newly named Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UNC-Chapel Hill, appeared on Who’s Talking in 2018 to talk about the Institute for Convergent Science at Carolina, which was rewriting the old rules by encouraging faculty from a variety of disciplines to work together alongside end users of the products and processes that their research creates.
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December 4, 2021
James Dodson, author of award winning and best selling golfing classics, talks about his next book about the great Wagon Road that brought settlers from Philadelphia and other ports to North Carolina.
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November 27, 2021
A program from September 2009 featuring the late Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, owner of Mama Dip’s in Chapel Hill and author of two best selling books and Marcie Cohen Ferris, Associate Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill about Mama Dip’s Share The Love Fundraiser, which was held Sunday, September 20, 2009
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November 20, 2021
Geeta Kapur, a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, talks about her book, “To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University”, which is a comprehensive look at the University’s history of systemic racism from 1776, when the idea of a public university was first conceptualized, up until the end of 2020.
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November 13, 2021
Geeta Kapur, a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer, talks about her book, “To Drink from the Well: The Struggle for Racial Equality at the Nation’s Oldest Public University”, which is a comprehensive look at the University’s history of systemic racism from 1776, when the idea of a public university was first conceptualized, up until the end of 2020.
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November 6, 2021
Chapel Hill’s Walter Bennett, author of The Last First Kiss, talks about his book and the challenges a retired lawyer faces when writing fiction.
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October 30, 2021
Chapel Hill’s John Rosenthal, internationally known photographer, talks about how the memory of a long dead girl still haunts him and led to his new book “Searching for Amylu Danzer”
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October 23, 2021
Our neighbor, David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times contributing writer covering Afghanistan, talks about Afghanistan after the U.S. pull out.
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October 16, 2021
Chapel Hill’s Gary Gilleskie, Executive Director of Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center, talks about how North Carolina is developing and training skilled professionals for the biomanufacturing industry and creating the best-trained, most industry-focused work force possible.
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October 9, 2021
UNC President William Friday died 10 years ago this month. In this program he 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.
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October 2, 2021
Former leader of the School of Government John Sanders died September 22, 2021, at 94. John Sanders, who had been a leading light in Chapel Hill since his arrival on campus more than 70 years ago, serving at study body president in 1950. He joined the staff of the Institute of Government beginning in 1951 and served as director for many years. He has been the go-to man when there was a problem or an opportunity in state government. He was also mentor to many young Carolina students and an inspiration to many others. In this program first aired last year several former students talk about his life of service.
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September 25, 2021
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her upcoming book on Jerusalem from ancient times until today. See her discussion about her role in a National Geographic film about Jerusalem.
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September 18, 2021
Chapel Hill’s John Rosenthal, internationally known photographer, talks about how the memory of a long dead girl still haunts him and led to his new book “Searching for Amylu Danzer”
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September 11, 2021
Howard Manning, who for nearly 20 years, until his retirement in 2016 presided over the Leandro v. State case, talks about
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September 4, 2021
Chapel Hill’s John Rosenthal, internationally known photographer, talks about how the memory of a long dead girl still haunts him and led to his new book “Searching for Amylu Danzer”
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August 28, 2021
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her upcoming book on Jerusalem from ancient times until today. See her discussion about her role in a National Geographic film about Jerusalem.
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August 21, 2021
John Shelton Reed, Cofounder of the Campaign for Real Barbecue, coauthor with his late wife, Dale Volberg Reed and Will McKinney of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue,” and author of “Barbecue: a SAVOR THE SOUTH® cookbook”, talks his new book, “On Barbecue”, and the changing world of barbecue.
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August 14, 2021
Howard Manning, who for nearly 20 years, until his retirement in 2016 presided over the Leandro v. State case, talks about the challenges that remain to ensure that all North Carolina children receive a sound education as provided by the North Carolina constitution, and why it is important for folks in Chapel Hill-Carrboro and in every community in the state.
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August 7, 2021
For 24 years, Barry Saunders informed and entertained News & Observer readers. Then after he took a (long) three-year break he came back to write for the N&O, Herald-Sun, and the Charlotte Observer. With two books under his belt, “Do unto others…and then run” and “And the Horse You Rode In On, Saunders,” He may be North Carolina’s most prolific author and, for many, the most popular.
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July 31, 2021
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her upcoming book on Jerusalem from ancient times until today. See her discussion about her role in a National Geographic film about Jerusalem.
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July 24, 2021
Howard Manning, who for nearly 20 years, until his retirement in 2016 presided over the Leandro v. State case, talks about
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July 17, 2021
John Railey, widely respected investigative journalist, and author of “The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland,” talks about the challenges of investigating and writing about a 50 year-old plus unsolved crime.
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July 10, 2021
Chapel Hill has been consumed with tenure and talk about tenure these past few weeks. What is tenure? Where did it come from? How does it work? Debra Stewart, a senior fellow at the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago an expert on issues relating to higher education talks about what we need to know about tenure.
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July 3, 2021
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her upcoming book on Jerusalem from ancient times until today. See her discussion about her role in a National Geographic film about Jerusalem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCM6gIISYcEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCM6gIISYcE
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June 26, 2021
John Hart, New York Times No. 1 Best Selling author, talks about his latest book, “The Unwilling,” and the challenges of writing.
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June 12, 2021
William Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which recently honored him with an honorary degree. He is the leading historian of the American Presidency and frequent on this program. He talks about the extent to which Joe Biden is operating in the shadow of Franklin Roosevelt.
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June 5, 2021
David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times contributing writer covering Afghanistan, talks about the decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 2021 and our 20-year history of conflict there.
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May 29, 2021
John Shelton Reed, Cofounder of the Campaign for Real Barbecue, coauthor with his late wife, Dale Volberg Reed and William McKinney of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue,” and author of “Barbecue: a SAVOR THE SOUTH® cookbook”, talks about the death of Wilber Shirley and the future of North Carolina’s traditional Pit cooked barbecue
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May 22, 2021
John Hart, New York Times No. 1 Best Selling author, talks about his latest book, “The Unwilling,” and the challenges of writing, after the great successes of his six prior books.
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May 15, 2021
UNC Kenan Professor Jodi Magness tells us about the reported discovery in 1883 of a remarkable artifact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly found in a cave near the Dead Sea, older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, and containing the oldest and perhaps original copy of the book of Deuteronomy. Experts back then called it a forgery and the papers disappeared. Now a young scholar has made a persuasive case that the lost documents were genuine and the oldest known biblical manuscripts–by far. If they were real how would that change our view of the Bible.
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May 8, 2021
David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times contributing writer covering Afghanistan, talks about the decision to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by September 2021 and our 20-year history of conflict there.
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May 1, 2021
Fred Kiger, Writer, Researcher, American Civil War Expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and WCHL’s trivia expert, talks about the Civil War in American life–looking back 150 years after the war’s end.
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April 24, 2021
UNC Kenan Professor Jodi Magness tells us about the reported discovery in 1883 of a remarkable artifact: 15 manuscript fragments, supposedly found in a cave near the Dead Sea, older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, and containing the oldest and perhaps original copy of the book of Deuteronomy. Experts back then called it a forgery and the papers disappeared. Now a young scholar has made a persuasive case that the lost documents were genuine and the oldest known biblical manuscripts–by far. If they were real how would that change our view of the Bible?
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April 17, 2021
John Shelton Reed, Cofounder of the Campaign for Real Barbecue, coauthor with his late wife, Dale Volberg Reed and William McKinney of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue,” and author of “Barbecue: a SAVOR THE SOUTH® cookbook”, talks about the death of Wilber Shirley and the future of North Carolina’s traditional Pit cooked barbecue
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April 10, 2021
John May, a retired textile executive and author of “Poe and Fanny” and “The Poe Letters,” talks about his family history and his privately published new book, “The Mays of Alamanns’ Creek: A Family Odyssey,” in which he tells his family’s story–from the time of human origins in Africa to the textile town of Burlington.
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April 3, 2021
Larry Miller, one of the greatest of the great Tar Heel basketball players of all time, and author with Stephen Demorest of “Larry Miller Time: The Story of the Lost Legend Who Sparked the Tar Heel Dynasty,” about how he got to Chapel Hill, his times playing for Coach Smith, and what happened afterward. Art Chansky and Stephen Demorest join the conversation.
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March 27, 2021
Congressman David Price talks about the new edition of his book, “The Congressional Experience.”
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March 20, 2021
Chapel Hill’s Aruna Gurumurthy, a published poet, author of “Down the Grassy Aisles,” talks about her book and the place of poetry in our lives.
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March 13, 2021
Bob Epting, Chapel Hill lawyer and resident, pilot, former town Council member, OWASA attorney and former book salesman for the Southwestern Company, joins D.G. to talk about the lessons learned working door to door selling dictionaries one long ago summer.
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March 6, 2021
John Hart, New York Times No. 1 Best Selling author, talks about his latest book, “The Unwilling,” and the challenges of writing, after the great successes of his six prior books.
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February 27, 2021
Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Clark, USAF (Ret), a resident of The Cedars and author of “Eyes of the Tiger: China 1944-1945”, talks about his new book and his service around the world as an Air Force intelligence officer during World War Two..
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February 20, 2021
Republican political campaign consultant Carter Wren explains his party’s challenges post Trump and post Limbaugh.
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February 13, 2021
Congressman David Price talks about the new edition of his book, “The Congressional Experience.”
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