Guest: Nicholas Sparks

Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky.

Plot or characters? Which is the key to great fiction? John Hart and John Grisham challenge each other about their different views in a conversation with me at a special event launching Hart’s latest book, “The Hush.” and supporting the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. It was recorded in front of a live audience at Meymandi Hall in Raleigh.

Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Introductory comments by Art Chansky

Guest: Lefty Driesell

Lefty Driesell, legendary basketball coach at Maryland, Davidson, James Madison and Georgia State, talks about his election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

Anne Keene, a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of “The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team that Helped Win WWII.” She talks about the new book and a team of major league baseball players training in Chapel Hill to become fighter pilots during World War II and how they were heroes in the sky and on the baseball diamond.

Elaine Neil Orr, professor of English at North Carolina State University and the author of “Swimming Between Worlds”, talks about the new book and the two worlds on the American South in 1959 and the worlds of Nigeria.

Christopher Clemens, Senior Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Professor of Physics & Astronomy at UNC Chapel Hill, talks about The new Institute for Convergent Science at Carolina, which is 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.

Leonard Rogoff’s new book “Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South” feature a North Carolina woman, American Jewish activist involved in a wide range of progressive/leftist and often controversial causes, including women’s suffrage, labor reform and civil rights.

Guest: Mark Marcoplos