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Walter Pater was an influential 19thcentury English author and critic, and in 1870 he wrote a fascinating essay about the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.

In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Holton explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers.Woody Holton joins Walter Edgar to talk about this “hidden history.”

It was Beethoven who liberated the timpani from the trumpets, expanding their role and the range of notes they played, and even writing solo passages for them.

The homebuilding boom continues across the nation and in our state, with existing home inventory levels remaining very low and demand very high. When will it end? Hopefully never, says our next guest. Mike Switzer interviews Allen Hutto, CEO of the Building Industry Association of Central SC in Columbia, SC. Disclaimer: The Building Industry Association of Central SC has a business relationship with Voterheads.com, a wholly-owned company of Magnolia Media, Inc., the producer of this program.

Since 2005, Michelin has been sponsoring Innovision’s Young Innovator Award which recognizes successful South Carolina educational programs that encourage young people to engage in science, technology, engineering, math, and innovation. Our next guest’s student team in Columbia won the most recent award for developing a COVID-19 contact tracer, which also won them $65,000 as a national finalist in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition. Mike Switzer interviews Kirsten Bullington, Next Energy Engineering instructor at the Richland Two Institute of Innovation in Columbia, SC.

It should come as no surprise that one of the hottest growth areas in technology is cybersecurity. And it’s getting some strong support from tech organizations in our state who are working toward making it one of our high-growth industries. Mike Switzer interviews Warren Parker, the chair at South Coast Cyber Center in Beaufort, SC.

“W” is for Wayside Hospitals. Wayside hospitals were formed across South Carolina during the Civil War as means to care for sick and wounded Confederate soldiers travelling throughout the state.

B” is for Barnwell, Robert Woodward (1801-1882). Educator, congressman, U.S. senator.

“C” is for Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1932 as a wintering ground for migrating waterfowl.

Like many 19th-century composers, Robert Schumann often gave his works picturesque titles. Schumann’s Scenes from Childhood, for example, a set of pieces for solo piano, includes pieces with titles such as “Pleading Child,” and “Frightening.” How literally should we take these titles – and perhaps the picturesque titles of other composers’ works?