Who's Talking Archives - Chapelboro.com: Recent Episodes

Who's Talking Archives - Chapelboro.com

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.

View Details

Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”

The post June 29, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, is Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her new book, “Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America (2024)”

The post June 22, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post June 15, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill, discussing her latest book, “JERUSALEM THROUGH THE AGES-FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO THE CRUSADES”.

The post June 8, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”

The post June 1, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her new book, “Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America” (2024)

The post May 25, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post May 11, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Elizabeth Engelhardt, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts & Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about her new book, “Boardinghouse Women: How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America” (2024).

The post May 4, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 27, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post April 20, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

WCHL is airing conversations with the late Coach Lefty Driesell. Coach Driesell was the legendary basketball coach at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament. They also discuss Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

The post April 13, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Clarence Whitefield, 101, former Secretary of the Carolina Alumni Association died on March 24, 2024. Two years ago, on Who’s Talking, he talked about his memories of Chapel Hill and played his famous harmonica.

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

The post April 6, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”

The post March 30, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s and Carolina Meadow’s Dr. Vince Tollers, retired Distinguished Service Professor of English at SUNY College at Brockport NY, talks about humor in the Bible.

The post March 23, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s John May, a successful business-person who is also an admired writer, talks about writing a new non-fiction book about the connections between the Lost Colony and the later settlement at Jamestown in Virginia.

The post March 16, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”

The post March 9, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

97.9 The Hill WCHL is airing conversations with Coach Lefty Driesell, who died recently. He was the legendary basketball coach at four different colleges, Davidson, Maryland, James Madison, and Georgia State, all of which he took to the NCAA tournament, about Maryland’s exit from the ACC and his memories of the great games against UNC and Duke.

2017 Show:

https://chapelboroaudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2024/02%20-%20February/24/WHO%27S%20TALKING_LEFTY%20DRIESELL_2017%20FULL%20SHOW.mp32014 Show:

https://chapelboroaudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2024/02%20-%20February/24/WHOS%20TALKING_FULL%20SHOW%202014%20LEFTY%20DRIESELL.mp3The post February 24, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s and Carolina Meadow’s Dr. Vince Tollers, retired Distinguished Service Professor of English at SUNY College at Brockport, New York, talks about humor in the Bible.

The post February 17, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s popular author Jill McCorkle talks about her latest book of short stories, “Old Crimes and Other Stories.”

The post February 3, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.

The post January 27, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post January 13, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s John May, a successful business-person who is also an admired writer, talks about writing a new non-fiction book about the connections between the Lost Colony and the later settlement at Jamestown in Virginia.

The post January 6, 2024 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s and Carolina Meadow’s Dr. Vince Tollers, retired Distinguished Service Professor of English at SUNY College at Brockport NY, talks about humor in the Bible.

The post December 16, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Mimi Herman talks about her debut novel “The Kudzu Queen.”

The post December 9, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post December 2, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post November 25, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America.”

The post November 4, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post October 14, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks
about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post October 7, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.

The post September 30, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post September 23, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post September 16, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

and author or author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.

The post September 2, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post August 26, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post August 19, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post August 12, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America.”

The post August 5, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author or author of “Apostles of Reason,” talks about how religion intersects with American politics.

The post July 29, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew”.

The post July 22, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.

The post July 8, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post July 1, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Hillsborough’s Lee Smith, author of Silver Alert, talks about the new book and the quirky characters that fill her books.

The post June 24, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Democratic political consultant Gary Pearce and Republican political consultant Carter Wren talk about challenges both political parties face in upcoming election contests.

The post June 17, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Daniel Wallace, the James Ross McDonald Distinguished Professor of English, at UNC-Chapel Hill, talks about his recent book, “THIS ISN’T GOING TO END WELL: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew.”

The post June 10, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America”.

The post June 3, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post May 27, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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”.

The post May 20, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Marcie Cohen Ferris, Interim Director Center for the Study of the American South, talks about the importance of food in North Carolina history and culture and her book. “Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor”.

The post May 13, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Gene Nichol, Professor at the UNC Law School, talks about his new book, “Lessons from North Carolina: Race, Religion, Tribe, and the Future of America”.

The post May 6, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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”

The post April 29, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post April 22, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Marcie Cohen Ferris, Interim Director Center for the Study of the American South, talks about the importance of food in North Carolina history and culture and her book. “Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor”.

The post April 15, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post April 8, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 1, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Chapel Hill’s Marcie Cohen Ferris, Interim Director Center for the Study of the American South, talks about the importance of food in North Carolina history and culture and her book. “Edible North Carolina: A Journey Across a State of Flavor”.

The post March 18, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 11, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 4, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post February 25, 2023 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 14, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 7, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 30, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 23, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 16, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 9, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 2, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 26, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post March 19, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 5, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

State Treasurer Dale Folwell talks about his bitter battle with the state’s largest hospitals about costs, prices, accountability, and transparency

The post February 26, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post February 12, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post February 5, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post January 29, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post January 22, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post January 15, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post January 8, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post January 1, 2022 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post December 25, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post December 18, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post December 11, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post December 4, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post November 27, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post November 20, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post November 13, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post November 6, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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”

The post October 30, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Our neighbor, David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times contributing writer covering Afghanistan, talks about Afghanistan after the U.S. pull out.

The post October 23, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post October 16, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post October 9, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post October 2, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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=uCM6gIISYcE

The post September 25, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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”

The post September 18, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post September 11, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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”

The post September 4, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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=uCM6gIISYcE

The post August 28, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post August 21, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post August 14, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post August 7, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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=uCM6gIISYcE

The post July 31, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post July 24, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post July 17, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post July 10, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post July 3, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

John Hart, New York Times No. 1 Best Selling author, talks about his latest book, “The Unwilling,” and the challenges of writing.

The post June 26, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post June 12, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post June 5, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post May 29, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 22, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 15, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 8, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post May 1, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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?

The post April 24, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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

The post April 17, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 10, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post April 3, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

Congressman David Price talks about the new edition of his book, “The Congressional Experience.”

The post March 27, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 20, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 13, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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.

The post March 6, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.

View Details

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..

The post February 27, 2021 appeared first on Chapelboro.com.