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Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John shares the story of the rise and fall of Kemet Corporation.

A few years ago, our next guest’s company was busy providing Lowcountry real estate agents with contractor repair services. Then, maybe during a light bulb replacement, they got the idea to create a nationwide technology platform that would accomplish the same thing while, at the same time, expanding their customer base to include homeowners and investors. Mike Switzer interviews Paul Dorney, chief technology officer at PunchlistUSA in Charleston, SC. The company was recently named by Tech Tribune as one of the 2022 Best Tech Startups in South Carolina.

I wonder what today’s voice teachers would think of the composer Gioacchino Rossini’s ideas for a vocal training curriculum.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Joni Nelson about the importance of taking good care of your mouth, teeth and gums during pregnancy. Dr. Nelson is an Associate Professor in the College of Dental Medicine and she’s Deputy Director of the Division of Population Oral Health at MUSC.

“C” is for “Carolina.” State song. South Carolina’s oldest official state song is “Carolina,” with words by Henry Timrod set to music by Anne Curtis Burgess.

With his book, Crécy: Battle of Five Kings (2022, Osprey), Michael Livingston, professor of medieval history at The Citadel, has authored a remarkable new study on the Battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War.The Battle of Crécy in 1346 is one of the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history. The repercussions of this battle, in which forces led by England’s King Edward III decisively defeated a far larger French army, were felt for hundreds of years, and the exploits of those fighting reached legendary status. Yet new, groundbreaking research by Michael Livingston has shown that nearly everything that has been written about this dramatic event may be wrong.Michael Livingston talks with Walter Edgar about how he has used archived manuscripts, satellite technologies and traditional fieldwork to reconstruct this important conflict, including the unlocking of what was arguably the battle’s greatest secret: the location of the now-quiet fields where so many thousands died.

The Limacodidae or Eucleidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Zygaenoidea or the Cossoidea;[the placement is in dispute. They are often called slug moths because their caterpillars bear a distinct resemblance to slugs. The larvae are often liberally covered in protective stinging hairs, and are mostly tropical, but occur worldwide, with about 1800 described species and probably many more as yet undescribed species.

Have you ever wondered why pianists need page turners? They’re not, after all, the only ones who use both hands to play their instruments.

“C” is for Carolina Black Corps. During the latter years of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, British commanders used African American enslaved persons, freemen, and refugees in a variety of military capacities.

“B” is for Baruch, Bernard Mannes (1870-1965). Speculator, financier, presidential adviser.