Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, talks about the continuing work at the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel and about her new book, “Masada From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth.” More info at http://huqoq.web.unc.edu/

Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”

Howard Covington, author of “Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase”. He talks about the new book and the University of North Carolina during the years between World War I and the Great Depression

Guest: Bill Horner

Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of “Cold Mountain,” “Thirteen Moons,” and “Nightwoods,” talks about the new book “Varina”, and the joys of talking to the world about it.

Joseph Robinson, former Principal Oboe of the New York Philharmonic shares and discusses the following six pieces of oboe music played by him: The first movement of the Sonata for Oboe and Piano by Camille Saint-Saens; The last movement of the Oboe Concerto by Josef Haydn (with the NYP conducted by Zubin Mehta in March 1987); The slow movement solo from the Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms (with violinist Anne Sophie Mutter, Kurt Masur and the NYP); The slow movement solo from Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP) ; The dove-descending glimmer of hope in Shostakovich's cataclysmic Symphony #5 (Leonard Bernstein and the NYP; The last movement of Walter Piston's Suite for Oboe and Piano.

David Silkenat, a Duke grad with a PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and now a senior lecturer of American History at the University of Edinburgh, talks about a new way to study the Civil War--through the lens of surrender at he describes in his new book,br /

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“Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War”br /

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Read D.G. Martin’s column about the new book atbr /

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https://chapelboro.com/town-square/one-on-one-a-new-way-to-look-at-the-civil-war

Jim Auchmutey, a journalist who wrote for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years, specializing in stories about the South and its history and culture, talks about his new book, “Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America,” and how the history of barbecue parallels the history of our country.br /

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Guest host is John Shelton Reed coauthor of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”

Rufus Edmisten, Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee, NC Attorney General and Secretary of State, Democratic nominee for governor in 1984 and, many say, the most colorful politician in North Carolina’s last 50 years, talks about his new book, “That’s Rufus: A Memoir of Tar Heel Politics, Watergate and Public Life”

Jim Auchmutey, a journalist who wrote for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years, specializing in stories about the South and its history and culture, talks about his new book, “Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America,” and how the history of barbecue parallels the history of our country.br /

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Guest host is John Shelton Reed coauthor of “Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue”