CONVERSATIONS

This week Joan interviews veteran political reporter Al May and also Carol Dar, Director of the Institute

for Politics, Democracy and the Internet at Georgetown University, about political reporting on the internet.

This week Joan interviews College of Charleston theater professor Joy Vandervort-Cobb and also her former student, actor Julia Burns.

This week Joan interviews Osei Chandler, project director of the Education Opportunity Center at Trident Technical College, and also Mark Thomas, choir director for the Cathedral Girls' Chorus in Charleston.

This week Joan interviews Harriett Grady-Thomas about the beach music and shag festival, and also there is another segment of the monthly series TALKING MUSIC with Charleston Symphony Orchestra conductor David Stahl.

This week Joan interviews Parnessa Seele about the Balm in Gilead, an organization she founded to educate people about the AIDS virus. Joan also speaks with Ryan Cockrell and Shannon Smith from Pour it Now, a group working to get a skateboarding park in the Charleston area. Lese Corrigan is also interviewed about the annual Palette and Palate Stroll.

This week Joan profiles the newly realigned Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina with Jane Locke and Nina Sossaman-Pogue and also interviews Gibbes Museum curator Angela Mack.

This week Joan interviews Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley and City of Charleston employee Teresa Tabor about the Diabetes Ten City Challenge initiative. Also, Joan has a conversation with Eleanor Kinlaw-Ross, founder and executive producer of the 2007 Island Heritage Festival.

This week Joan interviews Cole Miller, founder of No More Victims about helping children that are victims from the war in Iraq. Also there is a new segment of TALKING MUSIC.

This week Joan interviews Charleston County School Superintendant Maria Goodloe-Johnson before she says goodbye, filmmaker Len Morris about his documentary STOLEN CHILDHOODS, and Gwen Baker about the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregancy.

This week Joan interviews Lorraine Gordon, the eighty-four year old owner of New York's famous jazz club, the Village Vanguard. Also on the the show, a conversation with composers Edward Hart and Trevor Weston.