Who's Talking? With D.G. Martin

May 16, 2012 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Yasmine White. Chief executive officer of Voices together, a non-profit organization that serves individuals with developmental disabilities in the triangle and the state. May 15, 2012 Wiley Cash, and author of A Land More Kind than Home, about the new book and the power of religion and religious leaders in American life. Web page: www.wileycash.com May 10, 2012 Ben Fountain, Chapel Hill Native and author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, about the new book and his writing career and the intersection of war and American culture. Web page: www.harpercollins.com/authors/30481/Ben_Fountain/index.aspx May 2, 2012 Ferrel Guillory, Director, Program on Public Life School of Journalism and Mass Communication UNC-Chapel Hill, about the new issue of NC Data-Net’s report on changing registration and voting patterns in North Carolina. May 1, 2012 Jay Leutze, who grew up in Chapel Hill and is the author of STAND UP THAT MOUNTAIN, about the new book and inside story of how the beautiful vista of Belleview Mountain near the Appalachian Trail was saved. https://catalog.simonandschuster.com/TitleDetails/TitleDetails.aspx?cid=1305&isbn=9781451679007&FilterBy=&FilterVal=&ob=0&pn=&ed=&showcart=&camefrom=&find=&a= April 27, 2012 Substitute host John Shoop welcomes Katie Ricks, the first out lesbian since policy change in 2011 to be ordained by New Hope Presbytery to ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA). April 24, 2012 Erik Lars Myers, Hillsborough craft brewer and author of North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries, about the new book and the history of the craft beer business in North Carolina and where you can go to get the freshest and best local brews. http://blairpub.com/mediakits/eriklarsmyers.php 959 April 19, 2012 Phillip Manning, editor of Science Book News a weekly email report on new books dealing with scientific topics, about the recent scientific books we should know about, including Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame by ChristopherBoehm. April 18, 2012 Lydia Lavelle, Assistant Professor at NC Central Law School and Carrboro alderman and author of Sexual Identity Law in Context, about the new book and the current state of American laws on sexual identity and, of course on Amendment One. April 17, 2012 Substitute host Jeff Danner talks with Nancy Wisniewski about her journey from corporate cubicle to organic farm. April 13, 2012 John Hart, winner of two Edgar awards and author of Iron House, about the new book and the excitement about the challenges of writing his fifth book. Web page: www.johnhartfiction.com Note: To view John Hart’s North Carolina Bookwatch interview: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch April 12, 2012 Rick Smyre, founder of Communities of the Future a network of people and organizations to develop new concepts of governance, economic development, leadership, and education/learning as a response to a fast-paced, interconnected, and increasingly complexworld, about the consequences of these changes and how we can respond to them. http://communitiesofthefuture.org/ April 11, 2012 Hampton Dellinger talks with three leading voices in the campaign to defeat Amendment One: UNC law professor Maxine Eichner ;  General Counsel Andrew Spainhour; and Pam Spaulding. See also: http://www.protectallncfamilies.org/ April 10, 2012 Laurence Avery, Retired UNC professor and editor of “A Paul Green Reader” and “A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981”, about Harnett County celebrates native son Paul Green with the Paul Green Festival on April 20-21, 2012. Web page for information about Paul Green and the festival: http://paulgreen.org/ April 6, 2012 Maya Rodale, not only writes romance novel, but studies them and writes about them from a literary and scholarly perspective. She is the author of The Tattooed Duke. Web page: www.mayarodale.com April 5, 2012 Deidre Haj, Executive Director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema, about the Festival, which will be held Thursday - Sunday April 12-15, in Durham.. Web page: http://www.fullframefest.org April 4, 2012 William Leuchtenburg, the leading historian of the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and indeed of the 20th Century American presidency, about sizing up the prospects for the 2012 presidential election in light of the results of the Wisconsin primary and the challenges Romney and Obama face in the general election. April 3, 2012 Subsitute host Jeff Danner talks with Todd Boyette, Director of the Moorhead Planetarium and co-founder of the North Carolina Science Festival, and Jonathan Frederick, Director of the North Carolina Science Festival about science based events in town andacross the state. March 29, 2012 Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, about the new book . Web page: http://www.bartdehrman.com/ March 28, 2012 Michael Michetti, director, and actors Jeff Cornell and Susan Cella talking about the Playmakers Mainstage Season finale, NOISES OFF by Michael Frayn. Onstage April 4-22; opening night is Saturday, April 7. Web page: www.playmakersrep.org March 27, 2012 Sandra A. Gutierrez, who grew up in the United States and Guatemala, is a journalist, food writer, culinary instructor, and recipe developer who, though born in the US, grew up in Central America and author of The New Southern-Latino Table, about the new book and how her bicultural background resulted in a rich blending of cooking traditions. Web page: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-9107.html March 22, 2012 Dr. Jan Boxill Director of UNC’s Parr Center for Ethics, East Chapel Hill High School Students Sandhya Mahadeva, and Will Halub-Moorman, and their UNC Philosophy Graduate Student Coach, Kiran Bhardwaj, about the recent 2nd Annual Triangle High School Ethics Bowl hosted by The Parr Center for Ethics at UNC-Chapel Hill and featuring fourteen teams from local high schools.. March 22, 2012 Bret Lott, best selling author and teacher of writing and author of Dead Low Tide, about the new book and his collection of short stories with religious themes and how his own religious beliefs affects his life and his writing. Read the first chapter at: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/103714/dead-low-tide-by-bret-lott#excerpt March 20, 2012 Jim Yardley, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Beijing bureau chief for the New York Times, currently working in New Delhi, and author of Brave Dragons: a Chinese basketball team, an American coach, and two cultures clashing, about the new book and the lessons about Chinese culture that their basketball teaches.   March 15, 2012 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Trisha Lester of the North Carolina Center for Non-Profits. March 14, 2012 Lefty Driesell, 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 his memories of the tournament and thoughts about the current one. March 13, 2012 Dr. Mark Hyman, New York Times bestselling author and an acclaimed doctor and metabolism expert, and author of THE BLOOD SUGAR SOLUTION: The UltraHealthy Program for Losing Weight, Preventing Disease and Feeling Great Now!, about the new book and responding to the challenges of the health emergency--by public advocacy and personal attention to our eating, exercise and attitude habits. March 7. 2012 John Shelton Reed, retired professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and worldwide authority on Southern Culture,, about a new book about American regional barbecue that he is writing. March 6, 2012 Substitute Host Jeff Danner welcomes Robin Jacobs and Kathy Lee of the Eno River Association March 2, 2012 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Laurie Paolicelli (Executive Director) and Lee Pavao (Board Member emeritus ) of the Orange County Visitors Bureau. March 1, 2012 Substitute host Jeff Danner speaks with Ed Holland, Planning Director for OWASA about past, present and future issues and plans for water supply in our area. February 28, 2012 James Moeser, former chancellor of UNC, about Johann Sebastian Bach’s legacy and musical genius and Chancellor’s Moeser’s lectures at the Friday Center on March 6 and 6 from 7 to 9pm both days. To attend the lectures on March 6 and 7, register at the Friday Center’s website or call (800) 845-8640 or (919) 962-2643. February 24, 2012 Marvin Kalb, who led a distinguished 30-year broadcast career working for both CBS News and NBC News as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, Moscow Bureau Chief, and moderator of ”Meet the Press, and Deborah Kalb, a freelance writer and editor about their new book, “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.”. Web page: February 23, 2012 Substitute host Jim Heavner welcomes Draggan Mihailovich, Chapel Hill native, UNC Grad and 60 minutes producer. Draggan Mihailovich and Jim Heavner will discuss the discovery of Louis Zamperini and his remarkable story Segments 1 & 2 For more information.  Click here for a full summary.  February 23, 2012 Substitute host Jim Heavner welcomes Draggan Mihailovich, Chapel Hill native, UNC Grad and 60 minutes producer. Draggan Mihailovich and Jim Heavner will discuss the discovery of Louis Zamperini and his remarkable story Segments 3 & 4 For more information click here for a full summary February 16, 2012 DG Martin discusses recent North Carolina books and their North Carolina connections February 14, 2012 Joe Epley, a Green Beret, television journalist and a successful global public relations expert, known as an icon in that business and author of A Passel of Hate, about the new book and about the brutal civil war that was a part of the lead up to the Battle of Kings Mountain, the turning point in the American Revolution. Web page: February 8, 2012 Adam Johnson, author of The Orphan Master’s Son, about the new book and North Korea, an inside look at a land that is a mystery to us. www.randomhouse.com/book/212862/the-orphan-masters-son-by-adam-johnson February 7, 2012 Gary Pearce, respected political consultant and biographer of Governor Jim Hunt, about North Carolina politics in the wake of the decision by Governor Perdue not to seek reelection. www.talkingaboutpolitics.com February 3, 2012 Brett Whalen, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 2009) and author of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages:A Reader, about the new book and about religious pilgrimages and what motivated people of all backgrounds to travel to holy places far away from February 2, 2012 Joe Haj, Jeff Meanza and Mike Donahue, about the PlayMakers Repertory Company staging of a royal coming-of-age epic, combining William Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2” and “Henry V” as “The Making of a King,” to be performed Jan.28 - March 4 Web page: www.playmakersrep.org February 1,2012 Tom Drew, about the life and legacy of his friend, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans January 31, 2012 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Callie Brauel & Rebecca Brandt founders of ABAN in Chapel Hill. January 27, 2012 Cynthia Bulik, Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders in the Department of Psychiatry where she is also the Professor of Nutrition in the School of Public Health and the Director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program and author of The Woman in the Mirror: How to Stop Confusing What You Look Like With Who You Are, about the new book and why “Many women—regardless of income, size, shape, January 25, 2012 Rev. Albert Williams, Pastor of Staunton Memorial CME Church in Pittsboro and Chaplain for the Chapel Hill Fire Department, about his experiences as the first Black firefighter in our community and his work as a modern day pastor. January 24, 2012 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Paul Klever(Executive Director) and Jerry Salak (Board Member) Of Charles House Eldercare Home in Chapel Hill. January 20, 2012 Scott Mooneyham, Editor of “The Insider” and statewide columnist for North Carolina Newspapers, about about politics in Raleigh and how they have an impact on Chapel Hill. January 18, 2012 Lefty Driesell, former basketball coach at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, about how the version of the recruitment of Charlie Scott in the new book “ACC Basketball” came to be corrected. January 17, 2012 Co-host Dick Baddour with his wife Linda, his brother former state Rep Phil Baddour, and UNC medical school professor John Buce, telling the story of how Lynda’s diabetes condition led to the establishment of the UNC Diabetes Center and the recruitmentof Dr. John Buse to lead it. http://medicine.med.unc.edu/centers/diabetes-care January 13, 2012 Ted Zoller , Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and Associate Professor Kenan-Flagler Business School University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, about the entrepreneurs and deal makers who can make new businesses and bring us better jobs. CED, the southeast’s largest entrepreneurial support organization: www.cednc.org Blackstone January 12, 2012 Bethany Bradsher, author of The Classic: How Everett Case and His Tournament Brought Big-Time Basketball to the South, about the new book and stories about the fabled Dixie Classic. Web page: http://thedixieclassic.com/ January 11, 2012 William Leuchtenburg, the leading historian of the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt and indeed of the 20th Century American presidency, about sizing up the prospects for the 2012 presidential election in light of the results of the New Hampshire primary and 225 years of American presidential politics. January 10, 2012 Subsitute host Jeff Danner talks with Dr. Mike Cohen of UNC about his groundbreaking work on the prevention of transmission of HIV among couples from early treatment with anti-retroviral therapy. Dr. Cohen and his collorators were recently recognized bythe journal Science for having the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. January 6, 2012 Subsutitue host Fred Black welcomes Terri Houston, Ari Gauss, Lillian Lee and Mycal Brickhouse. Of the MLK university/Community Planning Corp in Chapel Hill. January 5, 2012 Margaret Maron, creator of the popular Deborah Knott mystery novel series and author of Three-Day Town, about the new book and how she brought her Knott series to encounter Sigrid Harald, the main character of Maron’s other popular series. Web page: www.margaretmaron.com January 4, 2012 Samia Serageldin, Chapel Hill writer and native of Egypt and now in Cairo, about the current situation and challenges in Egypt. January 3, 2011 Tom Drew, fundraising consultant for universities across the country, political guru, basketball insider at Duke and UNC, about the problems and prospects of college athletics and American politics. December 30, 2011 Aaron Nelson, President and CEO of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce , about his experience working for a day at a number of different workplaces in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. December 28, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Jim Copeland (President) Yvonne Kuntson (Director of Marketing) and Allison Worthy (Volunteer coordinator) of SECU Family house in Chapel Hill. December 27,2011 Robert Morgan, Part 2, author of “Lions of the West” visiting us again about Thomas Jefferson and other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries, Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams, Web page: December 23, 2011 Subsititute host Jeff Danner interveiws Sgt. Josh Mecimore, Public Information Officer of the Chapel Hill Police Department, safety in Chapel Hill, particularly over the holiday season. December 22, 2011 Susan and James Moeser, our Chapel Hill neighbors, former chancellor, and talented musicians and teachers, with a selections of their favorite Christmas music. December 20, 2011 Carl Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, with Select Translations, about the new book and why reading the Qu’ran staring at the beginning is difficult for new readers and how an understanding of its origins and purposes can open the door to a rich and December 16, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Beth Maxwell l (Board Chair) and Trudy Smith (Executive Director) of the executive service corps of the triangle. December 15, 2011 Harvey Sachs, writer, music historian, and the 2011–12 Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence at the New York Philharmonic, and author of THE NINTH: BEETHOVEN and the World in 1824 , about the new book and Beethoven and his influence on the composers and artists during a time of transition in art, literature, and culture. Web page: www.harveysachs.com December 14, 2011 Cliff Butler, retired Pharmacist and civic leader, about stories from his career, from growing up in Dunn, and service with Chapel Hill East Rotary Club. December 9, 2011 Ray Dooley and Julie Fishell, playing George and Martha in the Playmakers production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, about the challenges and rewards of tackling Edward Albee’s famous play. www.playmakersrep.org December 8, 2011 Tom Ross, President of the University of North Carolina, about his first year back in Chapel Hill and the challenges of the public higher education in North Carolina. December 7, 2011 John Brown, performer on the bass, leader of jazz groups, and director of the jazz program at Duke University, about the challenges of performance on the big bass and the future of jazz. www.jbjazz.com December 2, 2011 Subsitute Host Jeff Danner talks with Lyle Estill, founder of Piedmont Biofuels and author of three books on renewable fuels, the local economy, and the path to a low carbon future. December 1, 2011 Sam Walker, prize-winning historian and author of ACC Basketball: The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference, about the new book and how the early years of the ACC shaped its future. Web page: http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8606.html November 29, 2011 Nortin Hadler, professor of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina and author of are Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America and Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and author of Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, about the new book and the best ways to deal with the WCHL birthday winner-November 28, 2011 Local and celebrity birthdays-November 28, 2011 November 25, 2011 Elizabeth Woodman , Executive Director of Eno Publishers, about the joys and challenges of founding and operating a small book publishing organization. Web page: Eno Publishers www.enopublishers.org November 24, 2011 Substitute Host Fred Black welcomes John S. Kiley, Coordinator of SCORE in Chapel Hill November 23, 2011 Joseph S. Harvard III , senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Durham and author of Ephesians—Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible, about the new book and the challenges of being thankful at Thanksgiving. November 18, 2011 Substitute host Jim Heavner Visits With Hodding Carter. November 16, 2011 Dick Baddour, longtime athletic director at Carolina in his first week of adjusting to life without the everyday challenges and joys of life in the spotlight. November 15, 2011 Substitute host Jeff Danner talks with Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Exercise and Sports Medicine at UNC about his recent MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" for his work on sports-related concussions. November 10, 2011 Substitute Host Jim Heavner welcomes Steve Kirschner Associate Athletic Director for Communications for North Carolina Basketball. November 9, 2011 Sharon Ewell Foster, who lives in Durham and author of The Resurrection of Nat Turner Part One: The Witnesses, about the new book and Nat Turner’s slave rebellion, still not fully understood, 180 years later. Web page: http://sharonewellfoster.com 907 November 4, 2011 Barbara Bennett, associate professor of English at North Carolina State University and author of Soul of a Lion: One Woman’s Quest to Rescue Africa’s Wildlife Refugees, about the new book and How she got hooked on caring for lions and monkeys at the Harnas Wildlife Refuge in Namibia in 2007. November 3, 2011 William Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of History, at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and editor of Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930, about the new book and the role black performers played in the development of American culture in the early part of the last century. November 2, 2011 Mike Wiley, playwright and director of the Playmakers’ production of “The Parchman Hour”, Doug Bynum, who plays John Lewis, Kashif Powell, who plays Stokely Carmichael, about the stories and song of the 1961 Freedom riders on the roads of the South and their time in Mississippi’s legendary “plantation” prison. Web page: www.mikewileyproductions.com   www.playmakersrep.org November 1, 2011 Jeffrey Fuchs, Director of University Bands, about what it takes to get almost 300 musicians in the Carolina Marching Band on the football field on Saturdays . October 28, 2011 Robert Morgan, author of Lions of the West, about the new book and Thomas Jefferson and other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries, Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, David Crockett, SamHouston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. October 27, 2011 Jay Tunney, son of Gene Tunney and author of The Prizefighter and the Playwright: Gene Tunney and Bernard Shaw, about the new book and the amazing friendship and mutual admiration between Shaw and the world heavyweight champion. Web page: www.fireflybooks.com/bookdetail&ean=9781554076413 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgx0wFePTJk October 26, 2011 Kala Ambrose, a powerful intuitive, wisdom teacher and someone who has seen and experienced ghosts and other paranormal things. She is the author of Ghosthunting North Carolina and will talk about the new book and the haunted places in Chapel Hill. Web pages:http://www.KalaAmbrose.com http://www.ExploreYourSpirit.com    http://www.GhosthuntingNorthCarolina.com October 25, 2011 Tony Abbott, retired professor at Davidson College, inspirer of many of the country’s great writers, an award winning poet (including his most recent collection, “if words could save us”) and novelist, and co-editor of “What Writers Do” and author of “What Writers Do”, about the new book and what the books tells us about Lee Smith, Fred Chappell, Jill McCorkle, and many other October 21, 2011 Donna Campbell, Jay Miller, and Jennifer Evans, Donna Campbell is the producer of the Murphey School Radio Show, Jay Miller is the owner of the Murphey school building, and Jennifer Evans is an amazing gospel singer about the Murphey School Radio Show how it got started and its next performance on Saturday and Sunday November 12 and 13. Web page: http.murpheyschoolradio.net October 20, 2011 Joe and Terry Graedon, authors of Top Screwups Doctors Make and How to Avoid Them, about the new book and the dangers to patients of medical mistakes by doctors, hospitals, other health professionals, and pharmacists. Web page: peoplespharmacy.com Tocheck drug interactions: www.mediguard.org/ October 19, 2011 Can he win North Carolina again? His poll numbers are down, the economy is in the tank, but Barak Obama is not the first President to face a tough reelection contest. Who could tell him about what other presidents learned? Who better than our neighbor, William Leuchtenburg, the leading historian of the American presidency, October 18, 2011 Phillip Manning, editor of Science Book News a weekly email report on new books dealing with scientific topics www.scibooks.org, about Steven Pinker, the distinguished Harvard psychology professor, and his new book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” which explains how violence and cruelty have decreased markedly over time . October 14, 2011 Subsutite Host Jeff Danner welcomes Rainer Dammers chair of the Chapel Hill bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. October 13, 2011 Charles Coble, former Vice President of the UNC System and Dean of the ECU School of Education and Co-director, Science and Mathematics Teacher Imperative, APLU and Co-founder and Partner, The Third Mile Group, www.thirdmilegroup.com October 12, 2011 Daniel Wallace, Chair of the writing program at UNC-Chapel Hill and best selling author of “Big Fish”, Bill Smith, Chef at Crooks Corner Crook’s Corner and author of Bill Smith’s Seasoned in the South, Erica Eisdorfer , Just retired manager of the Bulls Hear bookstore and author of “The Wet Nurse’s Tale”, about 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern University Town in Prose & Poetry -- October 11, 2011 Art Pope, Raleigh businessman, political activist and subject of an article in the New Yorker titled “State for Sale”, about his real aspirations and hopes for North Carolina. October 7, 2011 Jim Ferguson and Samantha Buckner, faculty leaders of one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s most popular and toughest classes titled-- Is Dinner “Sustainable” – A Human Dilemma. October 4, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Jenifer Boger (President) and Rosemary Waldorf (Board Member) of the Stroud-Roses foundation. September 30, 2011 Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Harper’s and  a teacher of creative nonfiction at Dartmouth College, about his new book, Sweet Heaven When I Die. http://jeffsharlet.com September 28, 2011 John Shelton Reed, retired professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, worldwide authority on Southern Culture and co-author of Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, about the book and what Rick Perry ought to know about North Carolina Barbecue and its connections to the state’s politics. For background check John Blythe’s comments at September 27, 2011 Substitute hos Fred Black welcomes Shamecca Bryant (Executive Director) and Valarie Schwartz (Board Member) of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center in Chapel Hill. September 23, 2011 Dr. Harold ‘Rick’ Pillsbury, Thomas J. Dark Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Chair, Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Executive Director, W. Paul Biggers Carolina Children’s Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP), about about the amazing results for deaf or hard of hearing children from modern hearing aids or surgery. September 22, 2011 Steven Petrow, author of Steven Petrow’s Complete Gay & Lesbian Manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life about the book and upcoming events in the area celebrating Gay Pride. September 21, 2011 William Rohe, Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence, about the new book and the history of the transformation of the Research Triangle region and the challenges that could choke and bury it. http://planning.unc.edu/people/faculty/williamrohe; September 20, 2011 Substitute Host Jeff Danner Welcomes Brian Burnham assistant scout master of troop 845 in Carrboro. September 16, 2011 Tim Tyson, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, with appointments in the Duke Divinity School and the Department of History a position in the Department of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. and author of Blood Done Sign My Name, about the monument on the UNC campus that is known as “Silent Sam,” and the history lessons its presence invokes. September 15, 2011 Robert Gibbs, former press secretary to President Obama, about “Communicating through the Chaos of American politics. September 14, 2011 Ned Cline, highly respected North Carolina journalist and biographer and author of The Man from Mount Gilead: Bob Jordan Helped Give Public Service a Good Name, about the new book and Bob Jordan’s legacy in North Carolina public life. September 13, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Michelle Williams Hamilton (Board Chair), Hudson Fuller (Executive Director), Elizabeth Johnson (Volunteer and Community Education Coordinator) of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County. September 9, 2011 John N. Davis, one of the best political minds in North Carolina, according to N&O’s Rob Christensen, about the current political landscape in North Carolina today. www.johndavisconsulting.com September 8, 2011 Playmakers production: “A Number.” Guests: Ray Dooley plays a father who learns that his son has been cloned, Josh Barrett, both a son and his clones, Mike Donahue is director of the play “A Number,” which is about a family that learns that a son has been cloned. Web page: www.playmakersrep.org September 7, 2011 Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about the new realities of North Carolina politics as shown by hard census data as reported in the latest issue of Data Net. Available on line (after September 15 at http://southnow.org and until then at http://ui.uncc.edu/story/ncs-‘big-15’-counties-show-urban-heft-changing-state September 6, 2011 Ted Abernathy, Executive Director of the Southern Growth Policy Board, a 39-year old public policy think tank that provides economic development research and advice for 13 Southern states, about special challenges that face the southern region of the United States and how those challenges relate to what is going on in Chapel HIll. Web page: www.southerngrowth.com September 2, 2011 Jay Smith, John Van Seters Distinguished Term Professor & Associate Chair of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast, about the new book and pellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and an explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. Web page: September 1, 2011 John Woestendiek, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and author of Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man’s Best Friend , about the new book. Web page: http://dogincthebook.com/, http://www.ohmidog.com/ August 31, 2011 Woody Durham, who will always be “The Voice of the Tar Heels”, about his new life as a retiree, some of the great moments of Carolina athletics, and his thoughts about the upcoming season. August 30, 2011 Elaine O’Neil, a textile collage artist based in Chapel Hill, about her new “Luv This Place” calendar for 2012--how it is different from this year’s calendar and how it helps support the North Carolina Cancer Hospital: www.elaineoneil.com/ http://unclineberger.org/2012calendar August 26, 2011 Emil Kang, UNC’s Executive Director of the Arts, about some of of the world class offerings that we will have a chance to experience in Memorial Hall in the next few months. http://eda.unc.edu/about and www.carolinaperformingarts.org August 24, 2011 Fountain Odom, former powerful state senator and 18-year cancer survivor, with children and business partners Amy Odom and Matthew Odom about the benefits of the fruit of the 400-year old mother vine and new products from The Mothervine Nutraceuticals Company. www.themothervine.com August 19, 2011 Jeffery Deaver, best-selling, award winning author and author of Carte Blanche, about the new book and challenges of recreating James Bond for contemporary readers. Web page: www.jefferydeaver.com August 18, 2011 Jean Bradley Anderson, author of Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina, about her book and Durham’s amazing past. www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=18835 August 17, 2011 Ernest Dollar, executive director of the Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, about some of our town’s history that we sometimes overlook. August 16, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Kevin Hicks, Suepinda Keith, Rich Giorgi, and Houston Lewis of Spoke’n Revolutions youth cycling. In conjunction with the youth groups recent completion of 1800 Miles of the Underground Railroad this summer during the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. August 12, 2011 Clyde Edgerton, one of North Carolina’s favorite authors and storytellers and author of The Night Train, about the new book and small town North Carolina in the 1960s, race, music, and how music helped bring us all together. Excerpt www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/books/review/excerpt-the-night-train-by-clyde-edgerton.html?_r=1&ref=reviewVideo trailer: http://vimeo.com/25265338 August 10, 2011 John Kilgo, who has covered Carolina sports for many years, including about 14 years as host of the Dean Smith basketball TV show and heavily involved in sports at Davidson including play by play radio coverage of Davidson basketball, about his views on the college athletics in light of the NCAA investigation and the change in football coaches at Carolina. August 9, 2011 Lefty Driesell, former basketball coach at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, about college athletics today and its challenges for the future. August 5, 2011 Robert Orr, Executive Director and Senior Counsel at the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law , about college sports, academic integrity, and the NCAA . Web page: http://ncicl.org/ August 4, 2011 Bernie Reeves, publisher of Metro Magazine and founder of the Raleigh Spy Conference, about the upcoming, August 24-26 Raleigh Spy Conference. www.raleighspyconference.com August 2, 2011 Lloyd Kramer, Chair of Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill, and author of Nationalism in Europe & America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775, about the new book and why the history of modern nationalism does not begin until 1775. Web page: www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=2200 July 29, 2011 Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, about the new book, which is a sequel to Puccini's “Madame Butterfly.” www.angeladavisgardner.com June 28, 2011 Bob Epting, Chapel Hill lawyer and resident--for almost 50 years, pilot, former town Council member, OWASA attorney and former book salesman for the Southwestern Company, about the lessons learned working door to door selling dictionaries one long ago summer. July 27, 2011 Freddie Kiger, Writer, Researcher and American Civil War Expert at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, about the importance of the American Civil War -- 150 years later. Web pages: www.fredwkiger.com, http://alumni.unc.edu/print.aspx?sid=73 July 26, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black welcomes Jay Bryan (President of the board of directors) and Margaret Samuels (Executive director) of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children. July 22, 2011 John Hart, winner of two Edgar awards for the best mystery novel of the year and author of Iron House, about the new book and the excitement and challenges of launching a fourth best selling book. Web page: www.johnhartfiction.com Note: To view John Hart’s North Carolina Bookwatch interview: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.com July 21, 2011 Sally Rhine Feather, Executive Director Emeritus of the Rhine Research Center , about about the Rhine Research Center’s work on the study of consciousness and the current status of the study of parapsychology. www.rhine.org July 20, 2011 Bruce Feiler, bestselling author of Walking the Bible and GENERATON FREEDOM: The Middle East Uprisings and the Remaking of the Modern World, about the new book and his hopes that the Arab Spring will bring a new freedom and openness to the Middle East. Web page: for Feiler’s essay in Time: www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2076714-2,00.html July 19, 2011 Joseph Howell, author of Civil Rights Journey: The Story of a White Southerner Coming of Age during the Civil Rights Revolution, about the new book and insider stories of the Civil Rights struggles. A free preview of the book at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/55604369/Civil-Rights-Journey June 10, 2011 Phillip Manning, editor of Science Book News a weekly email report on new books dealing with scientific topics telling us about some of his favorite and most important recent books. www.scibooks.org June 9, 2011 Michael Ray Smith, a professor at Campbell University and author of A Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington 1858-1869, about the new book and how a handwritten newsletter provided a narrative record of the Civil War. www.lib.campbell.edu/harrington_papers June 8, 2011 Playmakers producing artistic director Joseph Haj and associate artistic director Jeffrey Meanza, about the PlayMakers Repertory Company 2011/12 Season.www.playmakersrep.org June 7, 2011 Robyn S. Hadley, director of Alamance County’s What’s After High School? and author of WITHIN VIEW, WITHIN REACH, about the new book and the smart things children and parents can do now to prepare for college and the college admissions process. Web page: www.withinviewwithinreach.com/about-the-book.html June 2, 2011 Marjorie Hudson, award winning writer and teacher of writing and author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas: Stories about newcomers and natives, and the healing power of the rural South, about the new book and her stories and the craft of writing and its challenges. http://marjoriehudson.com/ Publisher’s web page: www.press53.com/BioMarjorieHudson.html June 1, 2011 Steven Petrow, author of Steven Petrow’s complete gay & lesbian manners: The Definitive Guide to LGBT Life , about the new book and the challenges of good mannerly conduct that face gays, lesbians, and straights. www.gayandlesbianmanners.com May 27, 2011 Phillip Manning, editor of Science Book News a weekly email report on new books dealing with scientific topics, about some of his favorite and most important recent books. www.scibooks.org May 26, 2011 Robert Epting, longtime Chapel Hill lawyer and resident--for almost 50 years, pilot, former town Council member, OWASA attorney, passionate protector of our environment, and advocate and helper of those who have no other friends, about what makes Chapel Hill so wonderful for him and what we need to do to make it better. May 25, 2011 Bernie Reeves, publisher of Metro Magazine and founder of the Raleigh International Spy Conference, political turnover and resulting conflicts. www.metronc.com, www.raleighspyconference.com May 24, 2011 Substitute host Fred Black visits with Debbie Horwitz, Susan Romaine, and Christine Cotton of PORCH (people offering relief for Chapel Hill-Carrboro homes) May 20, 2011 Arthur Benavie, retired UNC-Chapel Hill economics professor, about whether the “War on Drugs” can ever be “won,” and the often unrecognized high cost of continuing it. May 19, 2011 Mardy Grothe, author of NEVERISMS: A Quotation Lover’s Guide to Things You Should Never Do, Never Say, or Never Forget about the new book. For more about Mardy Grothe and his love of words see www.drmardy.com May 18, 2011 Pia Lindström, host of “Pia Lindström Presents” on Seriusxm radio, about giving D.G. tips about how to do radio interviews with authors and other celebrities. www.siriusxm.com/bookradio May 17, 2011 Sheri Castle, Food Writer, Cooking Teacher, Recipe Tester and Developer, and author of The New Southern Garden Cookbook: Enjoying the Best from Homegrown Gardens, Farmers’ Markets, Roadside Stands, and CSA Farm Boxes, about the new book and the pleasures of fresh, local, seasonal food and the delicious, healthful home cooked meals made possible by the diverse array of fruits and vegetables Apr 22, 2011 Dr. Richard A. Vinroot Jr., the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s 43rd Annual Fred T. Foard Memorial Lecturer, on the topic "A Public Health Physician's Journey Through Flood, Earthquake and the Wake of War." Apr 21, 2011 Kevin Cherry, Senior Program Officer at the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington and longtime member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, about the origins and development of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, the oldest student organizations on campus. Apr 20, 2011 Ben Tarnoff, author of Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters, about the new book and the history of paper money in America. More info and short video of Ben Tarnoff at http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594202872,00.html Apr 19, 2011 John Rosenthal and Elaine O’Neil, local artists and members of the Frank Gallery, about its first birthday celebration and fundraiser, OFF THE WALL!, at the popular gallery on Franklin Street on Saturday, April 30, at 6 pm. More info at Web page: Frankisart.com Apr 15, 2011 Andrea Reusing, owner of the acclaimed restaurant Lantern, one of Gourmet’s Top Fifty Restaurants, a James Beard Award nominee and author of COOKING IN THE MOMENT: A Year of Seasonal Recipes, about the new book and how to shop for and prepare the variety of local foods that are available in and near Chapel Hill in every season. andreareusing.com Sample from book: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35298518/Recipes-from-Cooking-in-the-Moment-by-Andrea-Reusing Restaurant: www.lanternrestaurant.com Apr 13, 2011 Deirdre Haj, Executive Director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, an annual international event dedicated to the theatrical exhibition of non-fiction cinema, about the Festival, which will be held April 14-17, in Durham. www.fullframefest.org Apr 7, 2011 Sara Foster, author of SARA FOSTER’S SOUTHERN KITCHEN: Soulful, Traditional, Seasonal, about the new book and the challenges of writing and producing a great cooking book. http://www.fostersmarket.com/2011/03/sara-fosters-southern-kitchen/ For a video showing how the book’s photos are made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDUaAsRhZ-o Apr 6, 2011 Joe Haj and Jack Herrick are our guests. PlayMakers’ producing artistic director Joe Haj will direct the production of Tony Award winning musical “Big River” April 6-24. The Red Clay Ramblers’ Jack Herrick will act as music director. www.playmakersrep.org Apr 1, 2011 Substitute Host Fred Black Welcomes Stacey Yusko Director of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Meals on Wheels. Mar 31, 2011 Andrew Bacevich, Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University and author of Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War, and Richard Kohn, Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, about United States military action in Libya: how the US got into it and how it might get out. Mar 30, 2011 Rye Barcott, a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a former Marine Corps captain, cofounder of Carolina for Kibera, and author of “It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace,” about the new book and what he has learned and what comes next. More info about the book at: http://ithappenedonthewaytowar.com/ More info about the continuing work at : http://powerof26.org/ Mar 24, 2011 Anna Jean Mayhew, author of The Dry Grass of August, about the new book and North Carolina life in 1954 and the poignant story of a young girl devoted to her family’s African American servant and growing up in a family under stress. www.annajeanmayhew.com Mar 23, 2011 Jane Borden, author of I TOTALLY MEANT TO DO THAT, about the new book and how long you can live in New York and still call North Carolina home. Web page: www.janeborden.com Mar 17, 2011 Bart Ehrman, author of Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, about the new book—and about the authors of the books in the New Testament and whether they should be called forgers. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Mar 9, 2011 John Hart, two time winner of the Edgar for the best mystery novel of the year and author of “Iron House,” his fourth novel, about the new book and about the hard life of a mystery fiction writer. www.johnhartfiction.com Mar 4, 2011 Substitute Host Fred Black Visits With Kevin Hicks, Executive Director of Spoke’n Revolutions. Mar 3, 2011 David Otto and Richard Ellington, authors of Images of America: Carrboro, about the new book and Carrboro its history, its people, and its future on the occasion of its 100th birthday. Feb 24, 2011 David Halperin, professor emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author of numerous nonfiction books and articles about myth and religion, and author of “Journal of a UFO Investigator,” about the new book and UFOs, science fiction, religion, writing his first novel-- and how all these fit together for him. www.davidhalperin.net Feb 23, 2011 Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism and currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction in the College of Communications at Boston University and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, about the new book and the great migration of Southern Blacks to the cities of the North through the eyes of three of those who made the journey. http://isabelwilkerson.com Feb 17, 2011 Marcia Mount Shoop, author of Let the Bones Dance: Embodiment and the Body of Christ, about the new book and why many believers are uncomfortable in their own skins and what they can do about it. www.marciamountshoop.com www.wjkbooks.com/Products/0664234127/let-the-bones-dance.aspx Feb 16, 2011 Tom Linden, director of the Medical and Science Journalism Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and executive producer of a television documentary (airing on Feb. 24 at 9:30 pm) profiling North Carolina “environmental heroes”, about three stories featured in the TV documentary that show how North Carolina individuals have become environmental heroes. See previews of the video segments at www.unctv.org/ncnow/features/december_09_02.html Feb 10, 2011 Oliver Smithies, Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Nobel Laureate, about “The King’s Speech” and his memories of Wartime Britain. http://www.unc.edu/~krfloyd/King George’s actual speech is available for listening at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAhFW_auT20 Feb 9, 2011 Tom Drew, fundraising consultant, political guru, basketball insider at Duke and UNC, about the problems and prospects of our favorite political and sports teams. www.501csolutions.com Feb 6, 2011 Democratic political consultant Gary Pearce and Republican political consultant Carter Wrenn, on the political situation after the Republican victories in 2010. For their up-to-date political thinking check their blog, “Talking About Politics” www.talkingaboutpolitics.com Feb 3, 2011 Samia Serageldin, Chapel Hill writer and native of Egypt, about about the current developments in Egypt as she observes them from Cairo. http://samiaserageldin.blogspot.com/ Feb 2, 2011 Suzanne Hobbs. At the Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill, she is Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Doctoral Program in Health Leadership in the Department of Health Policy and Management (Primary) and Department of Nutrition. She gives advice about how to eat better to live better. Blog: http://onthetable.typepad.com/ Jan 27, 2011 Karen Abbott, author of AMERICAN ROSE--A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee , about the new book. http://karenabbott.net Web link to Karen Abbott’s routine in the style of Gypsy Rose Lee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xhZXENmsvo Jan 19, 2011 Charles G. “Lefty” Driesell, longtime Basketball coach at Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, about about his career, his family, and how basketball has changed since he first took up the sport. Jan 14, 2011 Chapel Hill’s award-winning author Phillip Manning about the 5 best science books of 2010. For more about current science books: www.scibooks.org Jan 13, 2011 Substitute host Jim Heavner Visits With Hodding Carter. Jan 12, 2011 Heidi Durrow, author of “The Girl Who Fell From the Sky,” about the new book and her life and her appearance next month at the Orange Literacy Council’s “Writers for Readers luncheon on Monday, February 21, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Carolina Inn. Tickets for the lunch are $65 and are on sale now at oclctickets.eventbee.com . Jan 7, 2011 Substitute Host Fred Black Welcomes Flicka Bateman, former Chapel Hill Town Council Member, Principal of the UNC Hospital School, and active supporter and mentor of families in the local Karen community. Jan 6, 2011 Steve Bouser, Editor of the Southern Pines Pilot and author of “Death of a Pinehurst Princess: The 1935 Elva Statler Davidson Mystery,” about the new book and how a mysterious death of a young, rich bride brought the news spotlight of the country to a small town in North Carolina. Jan 5, 2011 UNC-Chapel Hill professors Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, authors of Oxford University Press’s North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction, about their new book. http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Anthropology/NativeAmerican/?view=usa&ci=9780195307542#Description

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