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“J” is for Judson, Mary Camilla (1828-1920). Educator. Judson taught nearly every subject in the college curriculum and started the first club for women in Greenville where girls wrote papers and debated topics.

In his book, The South Never Plays Itself, author, and film critic Ben Beard explores the history of the Deep South on screen, beginning with silent cinema and ending in the streaming era, from President Wilson to President Trump, from musical to comedy to horror to crime to melodrama. Opinionated, obsessive, sweeping, often combative, sometimes funny―a wild narrative tumble into culture both high and low―Beard attempts to answer the haunting question: what do movies know about the South that we don’t?

One of the wonderful aspects of life as a musician: age differences among players don’t mean anything. What counts is what kind of person you are, and how you make music.

August 19, 2023 — Sen. Lindsey Graham's comments on the Georgia grand jury indictment of former President Donald Trump; Rep. Nancy Mace discusses artificial intelligence; a recap of presidential hopeful Sen. Tim Scott's visit to the Iowa State Fair; and more.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Janet Carter about a healthy eating plan to help lower cholesterol. Janet is a clinical lipid specialist and the Program Manager and Lead Dietitian at the MUSC Children’s Health Wellness Works Program.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John tells us about new electric vehicle news in SC and the director of the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) at Clemson University receiving a $20 million grant from US Dept. of Transportation and starting a new center: the National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency (TraCR).

“L” is for Liberian exodus. The return of the Democratic Party to power in South Carolina in 1876, and the violence that accompanied it, raised anxiety among African Americans in the state and interest in the possibility of emigration.

The start-up community in our capital city recently gained a new resource when our next guest’s nonprofit organization opened up their new facility which is providing co-working and networking opportunities and more thanks to some outside funding that they were able to attain last year. Mike Switzer interviews Caroline Crowder, executive director of GrowCo in Columbia, SC.

Some native Crotalarias are the original larval food source for the ornate bella moth.

September 5, 2023 — We begin a special series dedicated to the 2024 South Carolina Republican primary, the history of our state's role in the national conversation, and what makes the first-in-the-South primary so integral to the road to the White House.