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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?