SouthBound
Summary: The South … What is it? Movies, books, songs, myths and legends have tried to explain this part of the United States. SouthBound, a new podcast series from WFAE, talks to people who were born and raised in the South. Hosted by journalist Tommy Tomlinson, SouthBound features conversations with notable Southerners from all walks of life – from artists and athletes to preachers and politicians.Who would you like to hear on the SouthBound podcast? Click here or use the form below to submit your favorite Southerner and the question you would love for them to answer. Who knows... you might just hear them on a future episode.
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On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Dan Chapman, whose new book “A Road Running Southward” retraces the steps of environmentalist John Muir, who walked the South from Kentucky to Florida in 1867. Along the way, Chapman shows what development and climate change have done to the Southern landscape.
On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Stephen Leatherman, who is known as “Dr. Beach” for his annual ranking of the best beaches in America. But he’s also a scientist who has a lot to say about how to protect our beaches—both on a global scale and through little things any beachgoer can do.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Tripp Mickle, who covers Apple for The New York Times. His new book, called "After Steve," is about the battle for the soul of the company and the Alabama native named Tim Cook who came out on top.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Marissa R. Moss, who has written a new book called "HER COUNTRY" about how a new generation of female artists have made their own paths in a country music industry that has become increasingly hostile to them. We talk about Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and many more artists.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Mary Tribble, who spent years researching her great-great-great-great-grandmother, a woman who came to North Carolina on a Baptist mission and helped found Wake Forest University. Tribble tells her story in the book “Pious Ambitions.”
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Dr. Benjamin Gilmer, who has written a new book, called “The Other Dr. Gilmer,” about a strange situation: He took over the Asheville, North Carolina-area medical practice of a man who shared his last name, and that man was in prison for murdering his own father. Many plot twists followed.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson welcomes Kristen Green, the author of an upcoming book called “The Devil’s Half Acre,” on the little-known story of a former enslaved woman who helped turn a former slave jail into the beginnings of a historically black university.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, we’re reairing our episode from last year in which host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Anna Sale, the host of the podcast "Death, Sex & Money." Sale is also the author of the book “Let’s Talk About Hard Things,” which is about to come out in paperback.
Phoebe Zerwick has written a new book about the case of Darryl Hunt, a Winston-Salem man who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. His freedom was celebrated — but he struggled almost as much with life outside prison as he did on the inside.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, we're re-airing a 2020 conversation with Latria Graham, a South Carolina writer who grew up on her family farm and speaks with deep passion about the experience of Black Americans in the great outdoors.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Del McCoury, the legendary bluegrass singer who is still going strong at age 83. We talk about his new album and his beginnings in rough-and-tumble clubs.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to Jason Mott, the North Carolina writer whose novel “Hell of a Book” recently won the National Book Award for fiction. It’s a funny, surreal and tragic story about trying to process the far-too-common violent deaths of young Black people in America.
Hank Klibanoff's podcast “Buried Truths,” which is about long-ago racially motivated killings in Georgia, has won a Peabody Award. This season, though, Klibanoff decided to tackle a more current case: last year’s death of Ahmaud Arbery.
This week on the SouthBound podcast, it’s the best of 2021 – clips from some of my favorite interviews of the year. You’ll hear from everyone from bestselling author Shea Serrano to poet Ada Limon to “Death, Sex & Money” podcast host Anna Sale, plus many others.
Joseph Ewoodzie is a sociology professor at Davidson College and the author of a new book called “Getting Something To Eat In Jackson.” It’s about the interplay of race and class in Mississippi through the lens of what Black people there eat and why.
