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.
February 23, 2019
Chapel Hill’s Vivienne Benesch, Producing Artistic Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company director of Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo” talks about the play, the playwright, and the conflict between long held “truths” and the findings of science.
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February 16, 2019
Guest: Lenny Rosenbluth, Parts 1 and 2
Part 1 Getting to Carolina: 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.
Part 2 His Carolina experience: 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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February 9, 2019
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February 2, 2019
John Feinstein, author of 35 books about basketball and other sports, including “The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry,”
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January 26, 2019
During this time of challenge and change at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC-System, Holden Thorp’s and Buck Goldstein’s recent book, “Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities,” provides useful insights and lessons for all who care about higher education.
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January 19, 2019
Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley distinguished professor at the UNC Law School, director of the UNC Poverty Center (2008-2015) and author of “The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens.” He talks about his new book and the consequences of rampant poverty in North Carolina.
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January 12, 2019
Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about her new book on the two worlds of the American South in 1959 and Nigeria.
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January 5, 2019
Holden Thorp is provost and Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Buck Goldstein is Professor of the Practice and University Entrepreneur in Residence in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They are the co-authors of “Engines of Innovation”, now in its second edition, and they’re here talking about their new book, “Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities”
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December 29, 2018
Pete Mock, long time mystery book expert at McIntyre’s Books and judge for The Beltie Prize for the year’s best mystery/ suspense/thriller, talks about the keys to good mystery and thriller writing and the eight books that are finalists this year.
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December 15, 2018
Retired UNC-Chapel Hill professor Thomas Warburton explaining the power of Handel’s Messiah.
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December 8, 2018
Guest: John Meacham, author of “DESTINY AND POWER: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” talks about Barbara Bush’s visit to Chapel Hill when George HW Bush was in training in Chapel Hill during World War II
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December 1, 2018
Pete Mock, long time mystery book expert at McIntyre’s Books and judge for The Beltie Prize for the year’s best mystery/ suspense/thriller, talks about the keys to good mystery and thriller writing and the eight books that are finalists this year:
Lullaby Road by James Anderson (Crown)
Gravesend by William Boyle (Pegasus Crime)
The Last Hack by Christopher Brookmyre (Grove Press)
The Plea by Steve Cavanagh (Flatiron Books)
The Witch Elm by Tana French (Viking)
She Rides Shotgun by Jordon Harper (Ecco)
Let Me In by Clare Mackintosh (Berkley)
A Perfect Shot by Robin Yocum (Seventh Street Books)
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November 24, 2018
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November 17, 2018
Carrboro’s Thomas Mills, the founder and publisher of PoliticsNC.com, a website of commentary and analysis, talks about the results of the recent elections–national, state, and local
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November 10, 2018
Fred Kiger, Writer, Researcher and American Civil War Expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill AND WCHL’s Trivia Guru. Experiencing the Civil War in American life–looking back after 150 years .
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November 3, 2018
Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein: Holden Thorp is provost and Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Buck Goldstein is Professor of the Practice and University Entrepreneur in Residence in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They the co-authors of Engines of Innovation, now in its second edition talking about their new book, “Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities”
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October 27, 2018
James Mustich, the author of “1000 BOOKS TO READ BEFORE YOU DIE,” talks about the new book and how he selected these 1000 books he says we should read before we die.
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October 20, 2018
Holden Thorp and Buck Goldstein: Holden Thorp is provost and Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Buck Goldstein is Professor of the Practice and University Entrepreneur in Residence in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They the co-authors of Engines of Innovation, now in its second edition talking about their new book, “Our Higher Calling: Rebuilding the Partnership between America and Its Colleges and Universities”
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October 13, 2018
Dr. April Salama and her patient Mr. Tom Drew are our guests. Dr. Salama is associate professor of medicine, director of Duke Cancer Institute’s melanoma program. They will talks about Fighting Melanoma with Team Tom – Tom’s unbelievable recovery and how it fits in a time of advancing successes and new techniques in fighting cancer.
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October 6, 2018
Carrboro Poets Abigail Browning, Gary Phillips, and Susan Spalt, read and discuss their work and talk about the West End Poetry Festival which will take place October 18 through 21—Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings and all day Saturday.
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September 29, 2018
Yunte Huang, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara talks about the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng, arguably North Carolina’s most famous residents ever and his new book, “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
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September 22, 2018
Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about the new book and the two worlds on the American South in 1959 and the worlds of Nigeria.
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September 15, 2018
Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his and Charlie Scott’s elections to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky.
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September 8, 2018
Anna Beer author of “PATRIOT OR TRAITOR: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh”, about the new book
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August 25, 2018
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of “Cold Mountain,” “Thirteen Moons,” and “Nightwoods,” talks about the new book “Varina”, and the joys of talking to the world about it.
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August 18, 2018
August 11, 2018
Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky.
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August 4, 2018
Plot or characters? Which is the key to great fiction? John Hart and John Grisham challenge each other about their different views in a conversation with me at a special event launching Hart’s latest book, “The Hush.” and supporting the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. It was recorded in front of a live audience at Meymandi Hall in Raleigh.
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July 28, 2018
Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky
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July 7, 2018
Anne Keene, a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of “The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win WWII.” She talks about the new book and a team of major league baseball players training in Chapel Hill to become fighter pilots during World War II and how they were heroes in the sky and on the baseball diamond.
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June 30, 2018
Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about the new book and the two worlds on the American South in 1959 and the worlds of Nigeria.
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June 23, 2018
Christopher Clemens, Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about The new Institute for Convergent Science at Carolina, which is 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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June 16, 2018
Leonard Rogoff’s new book “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” feature a North Carolina woman, American Jewish activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women’s suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.
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June 9, 2018
June 9, 2018
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of “Cold Mountain,” “Thirteen Moons,” and “Nightwoods,” talks about his new book “Varina”, and the joys of talking to the world about it.
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June 2, 2018
Yunte Huang, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara talks about the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng, arguably North Carolina’s most famous residents ever and his new book, “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
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May 26, 2018
Denise Kiernan, best selling author of The Girls of Atomic City, (about the secret city of Oak Ridge) and her latest book The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home.” She talks about the famous Biltmore House in Asheville and the family the built it and made it their home
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May 19, 2018
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
Visit her web site at: http://jodimagness.org
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May 12, 2018
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of “Cold Mountain,” “Thirteen Moons,” and “Nightwoods,” talks about the new book “Varina”, and the joys of talking to the world about it.
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May 5, 2018
Guest: Denise Kiernan
Denise Kiernan, best selling author of The Girls of Atomic City, (about the secret city of Oak Ridge) and her latest book The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home.” She talks about the famous Biltmore House in Asheville and the family the built it and made it their home.
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April 28, 2018
Anne Keene, a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of “The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win WWII.” She talks about the new book and a team of major league baseball players training in Chapel Hill to become fighter pilots during World War II and how they were heroes in the sky and on the baseball diamond.
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April 21, 2018
Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of “Cold Mountain,” “Thirteen Moons,” and “Nightwoods,” talks about the new book “Varina”, and the joys of talking to the world about it.
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April 21, 2018
Meacham talks about Barbara Bush’s visit to Chapel Hill when George HW Bush was in training in Chapel Hill during World War II
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April 14, 2018
Guest: Yunte Huang:
Yunte Huang, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara talks about the Siamese Twins, Chang and Eng, arguably North Carolina’s most famous residents ever and his new book, “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History.”
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March 31, 2018
Guest: Deidre Haj
Former Chapel Hill neighbor Deirdre Haj is Director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. She talks about the highlights of the Festival beginning Thursday, April 6. More info at: https://www.fullframefest.org
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March 31, 2018
Guest: Mike Wiley
Mike Wiley, acclaimed playwright, actor, and director, talks about the Playmakers World Premiere Mainstage production of his play “Leaving Eden,” a North Carolina fable, with music & lyrics by Laurelyn Dossett, directed by Vivienne Benesch. April 4 to 22. A story of racial tension, immigration, and economic crisis in a small North Carolina town—this unearthing of yesterday yields a hopeful hymn for our future.
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March 24, 2018
Guest: Jim Dodson
Jim Dodson, the author of ten books, including, Final Rounds, American Triumvirate, The Range Bucket List and the editor the great magazines, Pine Straw, Salt, and O. Henry, who is working on a new book on The Great Wagon Road, talks about his work with the new magazines and his research on the Great Wagon Road.
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March 10, 2018
Guest: John Grisham and John Hart
My conversation with authors John Grisham and John Hart at a recent event in Raleigh. Part 2.
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March 10, 2018
Guest: John Grisham and John Hart
My conversation with authors John Grisham and John Hart at a recent event in Raleigh. Part 1.
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March 10, 2019
Guest: Woody Durham
This week on Who’s Talking, we’re airing a conversation we had with Woody Durham in 2011, shortly after his retirement.
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March 3, 2018
Dr. Kurt Newman, a graduate of UNC-Chapel and Duke Medical School, a surgeon for 30 years, and now President and Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s National Health System, is author of “HEALING CHILDREN: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine .” He talks about the new book and how to put children at the center of our national conversation on health.
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February 24, 2018
Guest: Joseph Flora
Joseph Flora, UNC-CH Emeritus Professor of English and for 30 years leader if 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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February 17, 2018
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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February 10, 2018
Julian Pleasants. Long time history professor at University of Florida, and author of “Home Front: North Carolina During World War II”
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February 3, 2018
Guest: Jody 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
Visit her web site at: http://jodimagness.org
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January 27, 2018
January 27, 2018
January 14, 2018
Guest: Lennie Rosenbluth
Part 2 His Carolina experience: 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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January 14, 2018
Guest: Lennie Rosenbluth
Part 1 Getting to Carolina: 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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January 7, 2018
Guest: Leonard Rogoff
Leonard Rogoff’s new book “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” feature a North Carolina woman, American Jewish activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women’s suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.
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December 31, 2017
Lawrence Baxter, William B. McGuire Professor of the Practice of Law and Co-Director, Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law School about Bitcoins: What makes them valuable and what is the future of the Bitcoin type money.
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December 16, 2017
Guest: Lawrence Baxter
Lawrence Baxter, William B. McGuire Professor of the Practice of Law and Co-Director, Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law School about Bitcoins: What makes them valuable and what is the future of the Bitcoin type money.
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December 10, 2017
John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, contributing editor at Garden & Gun and a columnist for the Oxford American, author or editor of 12 earlier books, about his latest book “THE POTLIKKER PAPERS: A Food History of the Modern South,” which begins with the black cooks and maids who fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and tracks the South’s fitful journey from a hive of racism to a newer South.
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December 2, 2017
Guests: Carrboro Poets Abigail Browning, Gary Phillips and Gideon Young
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November 25, 2017
Guest: Art Chansky
Dean Smith, the legendary basketball coach at UNC-Chapel Hill who pushed hard for social change in our state and Charlie Scott, his first African American scholarship player made history together on the basketball court, and they made waves in North Carolina history and we will learn more about their achievements and sacrifices when we talk to Art Chansky about his new book, “Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town
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November 25, 2017
Guest: Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm in a recent interview at Elon University. For 37 years her morning public radio program made her one of America’s most influential people
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November 11, 2017
Guest: Leonard Rogoff
Leonard Rogoff’s new book “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” feature a North Carolina woman, American Jewish activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women’s suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.
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November 11, 2017
Guest: Margaret Dardess
Margaret Dardess, formerly an international trade lawyer, a corporate executive and a university administrator and now a published author and expert on the brutal realities of human trafficking is the author of “Brutal Silence”, about the new book and the brutal realities of human trafficking.
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November 4, 2017
Guest: Jim Dodson
Jim Dodson, two-time winner of the Herbert Warren Wind Award for best golf book of the year talks about his latest book, “The Range Bucket List: The Golf Adventure of a Lifetime
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October 28, 2017
Guest: Robert Morgan
Robert Morgan, North Carolina mountain native, admired author, and for more than 40 years professor at Cornell University about amazing story of how the American Revolution was won in the Carolinas in 1780 and 81.
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October 28, 2017
October 14, 2017
Carrboro poets, Abigail Browning, Gary Phillips, Gideon Young, read and discuss their work and talk about the West End Poetry Festival, which will take place October 18 through 21—Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings and all day Saturday.
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October 14, 2017
Chris Arvidson, a writer and a Detroit Tigers fan who loves the American game of baseball. She is editor of “The Love of Baseball: Essays by Lifelong Fans”, talks about how fans love baseball and their favorite teams in so many different ways. www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-1-4766-6983-0
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October 7, 2017
Chapel Hill’s Marsha Warren, the Executive Director of the Paul Green Foundation, talks about the iconic and famous Chapel Hill figure who gave his name to the Paul Green Theatre, to the Greenwood neighborhood, authored “The Lost Colony” and left his mark across the state and the nation.: Website: www.paulgreen.org
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September 30, 2017
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. Visit her web site at: http://jodimagness.org
Or the Huqoq site atn: http://huqoqexcavationproject.org
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September 23, 2017
Guest Marsha Warren:
Chapel Hill’s Marsha Warren, the Executive Director of the Paul Green Foundation, talks about the iconic and famous Chapel Hill figure who gave his name to the Paul Green Theatre, to the Greenwood neighborhood, authored “The Lost Colony” and left his mark across the state and the nation.: Website: www.paulgreen.org
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September 16, 2017
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September 2, 2017
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August 26, 2017
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August 19, 2017
Guest: Kathryn Hunter-Williams
Kathryn Hunter-Williams, director of the Playmakers world premier production of “The Count,” talks about of work that she, Lynden Harris, and the Hidden Voices organization did over four years to bring about “The Count.” Performances of “Count” will be at 7:30 p.m. nightly August 23 to 27, and 2 p.m. Aug. 27.
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August 12, 2017
Guest: Jim Dodson
Jim Dodson, two-time winner of the Herbert Warren Wind Award for best golf book of the year talks about his latest book, “The Range Bucket List: The Golf Adventure of a Lifetime
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August 5, 2017
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. Visit her web site at: http://jodimagness.org
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July 29, 2017
Guest: Doug McCullough
Doug McCullough, newly retired North Carolina Court of Appeals Judge and formerly a federal prosecutor directly involved in the pursuit and prosecution of the principal players in the largest drug smuggling ring in US history, gives us the inside story of bringing drug kingpins and low-level operatives to justice and eventually the arrest of Manuel Noriega of Panama.
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July 22, 2017
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June 24, 2017
Baseball legend Moonlight Graham’s connection to Chapel Hill on the 100th anniversary of his very short major league career: William Friday, Ron Hyatt, and Fred Kiger with friends in Chilsom, Minnesota
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June 24, 2017
Brett Friedlander and Bob Reising, authors of Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham, about the new book and the Chapel Hill connections to Doc Graham and his brother Frank Porter Graham. Read and excerpt at www.blairpub.com/alltitles/excerpts/chasingmoonlightchapter3.htm
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June 17, 2017
Last year Flyleaf Books brought Nicholas Sparks to the Carolina Club in Chapel Hill to talk about his recent book, “See Me.” A portion of his interview is aired on Who’s Talking. The complete interview is available at Chapelboro.com
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June 10, 2017
Guest: Ed Haag
Greensboro’s Ed Haag, a writer and former teacher, now a businessman, is fluent in Mandarin Chinese after living for six years in Taiwan, where he gained an interest in Charlie Soong the father of Madam Chiang Kai-shek. He talks about the North Carolina connections to Charlie Soong and his family and his book, “Charlie Soong: North Carolina’s Link to the Fall of the Last Emperor of China.”
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June 10, 2017
June 3, 2017
Guest: John T. Edge
John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, contributing editor at Garden & Gun and a columnist for the Oxford American, author or editor of 12 earlier books, about his latest book “THE POTLIKKER PAPERS: A Food History of the Modern South ”, which begins with the black cooks and maids who fed and supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and tracks the South’s fitful journey from a hive of racism to a newer South.
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May 27, 2017
Guest: Bob Ashley
Robert Ashley, retiring editor of the Durham Herald-Sun, talks about how the acquisition of the Herald Sun by the owners of the Raleigh News & Observer will affect Chapel Hill and the newspapers that serve our town.
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May 20, 2017
On May 20, North Carolina celebrates the 1775 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. This weekend we will re-air an earlier program with Scott Syfert, who discussed the lingering question of whether the Declaration is fact or fiction.
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May 13, 2017
Julian Pleasants. Long time history professor at University of Florida, prolific researcher, author of books about North Carolina politics and history, and author of “Home Front: North Carolina During World War II,” talking about the new book and how World War II changed the face of North Carolina: To order book from Florida University Press call 800-226-3822 or link to upress.ufl.edu. For 50% discount until May 31, 2017, order on line at upress.ufl.edu Use code AU517.
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April 29, 2017
Guest: Robert Ashley
Robert Ashley, editor of the Durham Herald-Sun, talks about how the acquisition of the Herald Sun by the owners of the Raleigh News & Observer will affect Chapel Hill and the newspapers that serve our town.
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April 22, 2017
Jim Dodson, two-time winner of the Herbert Warren Wind Award for best golf book of the year talks about his latest book, “The Range Bucket List: The Golf Adventure of a Lifetime
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April 15, 2017
Guest: Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm in a recent interview at Elon University. For 37 years her morning public radio program made her one of America’s most influential people.
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April 8, 2017
Guest: Jonathan Drew
Jonathan Drew, a Durham native and currently a North Carolina reporter and editor for the Associated Press and author, with Emery P. Dalesio, of the AP’s recent article on the costs to the state of House Bill 2 (The Bathroom Bill)”, about the new book and how the costs were computed and what will be the future consequences if the law remains on the books.
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April 8, 2017
Guest: Deirdre Haj
Our former Chapel Hill neighbor Deirdre Haj is Director of Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, talks about the highlights of of the festival beginning April 6th. More info at: https://www.fullframefest.org/
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