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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.

 

March 25, 2017

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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” this weekend on WCHL’s Who’s Talking

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March 4, 2017

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D.G.Martin is smart. He is a retired lawyer, Green Beret, athlete,and democratic politician. He can talk about anything and everything, and does he ever. Above all, D.G. is curious. Curious about his guest and curious to learn from them. This weeks guest is Pittsboro resident Ruth Moose. Retired after 15 years on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel competition and noted writer of poetry and short stories,

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February 25, 2017

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D.G.Martin is smart. He is a retired lawyer, Green Beret, athlete,and democratic politician. He can talk about anything and everything, and does he ever. Above all, D.G. is curious. Curious about his guest and curious to learn from them. This weeks guest is Chapel Hill resident. Jim Sasser, is a former US Senator from Tennessee and former US Ambassador to China He will discuss the current political situations in the US and in China.

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February 25, 2017

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D.G.Martin is smart. He is a retired lawyer, Green Beret, athlete,and democratic politician. He can talk about anything and everything, and does he ever. Above all, D.G. is curious. Curious about his guest and curious to learn from them.

Bryan Giemza, Director of the Southern Historical Collection, talks about the Collection, his work there, and how people in Chapel Hill can take advantage of this great resource of letters and millions of other records that preserve the history of our region.
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February 18, 2017

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D.G.Martin is smart. He is a retired lawyer, Green Beret, athlete,and democratic politician. He can talk about anything and everything, and does he ever. Above all, D.G. is curious. Curious about his guest and curious to learn from them.
This weeks guest is Charles Blackwood.

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February 18, 2017

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John Shelton Reed is a barbecue expert and scholar of southern culture and author of two books about barbecue–“Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue” and a cookbook titled simply, “Barbecue”, talking about the books and barbecue, politics, and the culture of the South.

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January 21, 2017

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Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: (1)The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; (2) The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); (3) The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); (4) The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ; (5) The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich’s cataclysmic Symphony #5 (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; (6)The last movement of Walter Piston’s Suite for Oboe and Piano..

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January 12, 2017

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Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: (1)The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; (2) The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); (3) The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); (4) The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ; (5) The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich’s cataclysmic Symphony #5 (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; (6)The last movement of Walter Piston’s Suite for Oboe and Piano..

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March 21, 2015

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Holly LeCraw, a former student of Hillsborough author Jill McCorkle, joins D.G. to talk about her new book, "The Half Brother," a passionate, provocative story of a complex family and its bonds, as well as the search for its identity set within the ivy-covered walls...

February 20, 2015

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Trudier Harris, a former English Professor at the University of Alabama and a former Professor at UNC, joins D.G. Martin to talk about her new book Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature.  ...

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