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When it comes to the history of the guitar, the only thing that’s certain… is that nothing is certain.

Film festival season has begun and in our state, the first one is just around the corner. Mike Switzer interviews Ken Seay, co-founder of the Reedy Reels Film Festival in Greenville, SC.

South Carolina has some of the worst personal debt numbers per capita in the country. On the series premiere of InDebted, we begin our dive into the factors that have led to this with the way many people first experience debt: credit cards.

Rudy recalls some of the many birds he sighted in his backyard during the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Many of the early blooming flowers in South Carolina are non-native species.

Improvements in drug delivery technology have resulted in our next guest’s company winning the most recent technology application award from Innovision. Mike Switzer interviews Scott Pancoast, CEO of Zylo Therapeutics in Greenville, SC.

Many of the early blooking flowers in South Carolina are asiatic species.

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened, and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.In his book, Black Snow - Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb, Charleston author James M. Scott tells the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.”James Scott talks with Walter Edgar about the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight “precision” bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first-time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.

March 14, 2023 — Comments from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) about the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank; a preview of state legislature action this week, including more details of what's in the SC House's $14 billion state budget; Bahrain receives the first F-16 fighter jet produced in South Carolina; and more.

“L” is for Lebby, Nathaniel H. (1816-1880). Inventor. Born in Charleston, Lebby conceived of the mechanism for the world’s first hydraulic suction dredge, which became the standard method of modern dredging.