Guest: Mike Wiley

Mike Wiley, acclaimed playwright, actor, and director, talks about the Playmakers World Premiere Mainstage production of his play “Leaving Eden,” a North Carolina fable, with music & lyrics by Laurelyn Dossett, directed by Vivienne Benesch. April 4 to 22. A story of racial tension, immigration, and economic crisis in a small North Carolina town—this unearthing of yesterday yields a hopeful hymn for our future.

Guest: Jim Dodson

Jim Dodson, the author of ten books, including, Final Rounds, American Triumvirate, The Range Bucket List and the editor the great magazines, Pine Straw, Salt, and O. Henry, who is working on a new book on The Great Wagon Road, talks about his work with the new magazines and his research on the Great Wagon Road.

Guest: Woody Durham

This week on Who's Talking, we're airing a conversation we had with Woody Durham in 2011, shortly after his retirement.

Guest: John Grisham and John Hart

My conversation with authors John Grisham and John Hart at a recent event in Raleigh. Part 2.

Dr. Kurt Newman, a graduate of UNC-Chapel and Duke Medical School, a surgeon for 30 years, and now President and Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s National Health System, is author of “HEALING CHILDREN: A Surgeon’s Stories from the Frontiers of Pediatric Medicine .” He talks about the new book and how to put children at the center of our national conversation on health.

Guest: Joseph Flora

Joseph Flora, UNC-CH Emeritus Professor of English and for 30 years leader if the Christianity and Literature class at University Methodist Church, about religious themes in Lee Smith’s short story collection “Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger and Other Stories.

Will Blythe, author of “To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever: A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry,” about that book and how, if at all, his feelings about UNC and Duke basketball and their rivalry have changed.

Julian Pleasants. Long time history professor at University of Florida, and author of “Home Front: North Carolina During World War II”

Guest: Jody Magness

UNC-Chapel Hill’s Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC Chapel Hill. talks about the latest about her work at Huqoq, in Israel including more about the stunning mosaics on an ancient synagogue’s floor

Visit her web site at: http://jodimagness.org

Guest: Joseph Robinson (Show B)