SouthBound

On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Stephen Leatherman, who is known as “Dr. Beach” for his annual ranking of the best beaches in America. But he’s also a scientist who has a lot to say about how to protect our beaches—both on a global scale and through little things any beachgoer can do.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Tripp Mickle, who covers Apple for The New York Times. His new book, called "After Steve," is about the battle for the soul of the company and the Alabama native named Tim Cook who came out on top.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Marissa R. Moss, who has written a new book called "HER COUNTRY" about how a new generation of female artists have made their own paths in a country music industry that has become increasingly hostile to them. We talk about Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and many more artists.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Mary Tribble, who spent years researching her great-great-great-great-grandmother, a woman who came to North Carolina on a Baptist mission and helped found Wake Forest University. Tribble tells her story in the book “Pious Ambitions.”

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, who has written a new book, called “The Other Dr. Gilmer,” about a strange situation: He took over the Asheville, North Carolina-area medical practice of a man who shared his last name, and that man was in prison for murdering his own father. Many plot twists followed.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson welcomes Kristen Green, the author of an upcoming book called “The Devil’s Half Acre,” on the little-known story of a former enslaved woman who helped turn a former slave jail into the beginnings of a historically black university.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, we’re reairing our episode from last year in which host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Anna Sale, the host of the podcast "Death, Sex & Money." Sale is also the author of the book “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” which is about to come out in paperback.

Phoebe Zerwick has written a new book about the case of Darryl Hunt, a Winston-Salem man who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. His freedom was celebrated — but he struggled almost as much with life outside prison as he did on the inside.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, we're re-airing a 2020 conversation with Latria Graham, a South Carolina writer who grew up on her family farm and speaks with deep passion about the experience of Black Americans in the great outdoors.

This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Del McCoury, the legendary bluegrass singer who is still going strong at age 83. We talk about his new album and his beginnings in rough-and-tumble clubs.