Shows
Open BookRollo Romig And "I Am On The Hit List"(Penguin Books)On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Rollo Romig, author of "I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist's Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India."Rollo Romig(rolloromig.com)
2025-07-1158 min
From The Green RoomThank You, Richard Winham: CT MartinRichard Winham and CT Martin(CT Martin)As Richard Winham readies to retire from WUTC, we're hearing from his colleagues, from our campus here at UTC and from the community about what he means to them. CT Martin hosts The Retro Opry Collective on WUTC.
2025-06-1304 minFrom The Green RoomThank You, Richard Winham: Susan LazenbySusan Lazenby(UTC)As Richard Winham readies to retire from WUTC, we're hearing from his colleagues, from our campus here at UTC and from the community about what he means to them. Susan Lazenby is interim station manager at WUTC.
2025-06-0404 minOpen BookA Brother-Sister Bond: Jennifer Boulanger's Memoir "A Song For Olaf"Jennifer Boulanger(jenniferboulanger.info)(Aired Thu 5/22/25) On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Jennifer Boulanger, the author of "A Song for Olaf: A Memoir of Sibling Love at the Dawn of the HIV-AIDS Pandemic," published by Mnemosyne Books.(Mnemosyne Books)
2025-05-2654 minOpen BookChat Book Flash Fiction: Paul Luikart's "Mercy"(Walnut St. Publishing)On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book" with Richard Winham, Paul Luikart - author, teacher and painter - talks about his latest work of short-form storytelling: "Mercy."Paul Luikart(Paul Luikart)
2025-05-0958 minOpen BookOne Year On And Counting: "Mileage" From Cast Iron Storytelling(Cast Iron Storytelling)On this episode of "Open Book" on WUTC, Richard Winham showcases "Mileage," the one-year anniversary show by Cast Iron Storytelling - this Sunday at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga.
2025-04-2558 minOpen BookMark L. Brooks On "Laying Autumn's Dust"Mark L Brooks(marklbrooks.com)On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Mark L. Brooks, an alum of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga whose debut novel is "Laying Autumn's Dust: A Southern Tragedy About Betrayal, Revenge, and Murder," published by Co-Pilot Publishing.
2025-04-1258 min
Live In The LibraryDalton MillsThe cover of Dalton Mills' self-titled debut album.(The Amp)Dalton Mills, a singer-songwriter from Middleboro, Kentucky. joins Richard Winham on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library. Mills plays at Cherry Street Tavern in Chattanooga on Tuesday, March 25th.
2025-03-2158 min
Live In The LibraryAndy SydowAndy Sydow(@andysydowmusic / X)(Aired Thu 3/13/25) Singer, songwriter, composer - and avid baseball fan.Listen to Andy Sydow join Richard Winham for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at the Chattanooga Public Library.
2025-03-1758 minOpen BookPamela Thomas-Graham on "When Words Fail"(Kehrer Verlag)On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Pamela Thomas-Graham, author and photographer of the forthcoming book "When Words Fail: A Photographic Journey through New York City."Pamela Thomas-Graham(Buck Ennis via Simon & Schuster)
2025-03-1758 minOpen BookA Pair Of Poets In The Southeast: Mia S. Willis & Christian J. Collier(craiglea123 / Creative Commons)On this episode of WUTC's "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with two poets in back-to-conversations: Mia S. Willis from Charlotte, NC - and Chattanooga's own Christian J. Collier.Mia S. Willis(Mia S. Willis)Christian J. Collier(Christian J. Collier)
2025-02-1758 minFrom The Green RoomBring On The Bluegrass: IBMA's Ken White with WUTC's Richard Winham Ken White(Ken White / IBMA)Chattanooga is the new home of the World of Bluegrass.The event - presented by the International Bluegrass Music Association - is coming to Chattanooga this September, and in 2026 and 2027.Ken White, the IBMA's executive director, spoke with our own Richard Winham - live here on WUTC._____Stay tuned to WUTC in the months to come for more voices - and more songs - as Chattanooga prepares to host the World of Bluegrass, September 16th through September 20th. Visit worldofbluegrass.org.
2025-02-1704 minOpen BookDeanna Raybourn On "Kills Well With Others"Deanna Raybourn(Holly Virginia Photography)On this episode of "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Deanna Raybourn, author of "Kills Well with Others."Her novel - a sequel to "Killers of a Certain Age," a New York Times best seller - offers another bloody good adventure for four female assassins who band together again as they prepare for retirement.(Penguin Random House)
2025-02-1058 minLive In The LibraryRhettRhett(rhettmusic / Instagram)Check out the "About" on the Spotify account for Chattanooga's Rhett, and it reads: "Music influenced by James Bond movies and Raymond Chandler novels." Listen for yourself as Rhett performs on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham.
2025-02-0258 min
Live In The LibraryInto Roswell's Unknown: "Eyes on the Sky" By J. Kasper Kramer(J. Kasper Kramer)(Aired Sat 12/21/24)J. Kasper Kramer talks about "Eyes on the Sky" - her new historical middle grade novel about a young scientist in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 - on this episode of WUTC' "Open Book" with Richard Winham.J. Kasper Kramer(Simon & Schuster)
2024-12-3158 minOpen BookJared Sullivan on "Valley So Low"Jared Sullivan(Mackenzie Wray)(Aired 12/14/24) Jared Sullivan, an alum of UTC, talks about his book "Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe" - on the coal ash disaster in Kingston, TN in 2008 and its aftermath - on this episode of WUTC's "Open Book" with Richard Winham.(Penguin Random House)
2024-12-2058 minLive In The LibraryShani Hedden Palmer BandShani Hedden Palmer(Shani Hedden Palmer)Chattanooga vocalist Shani Hedden Palmer and her band jam for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-12-0158 minOpen BookMatthew HubbardMatthew Hubbard(Mandy Rhoden Photography)(Aired Sat 11/16/24) Author Matthew Hubbard is Richard Winham's guest for this episode of WUTC's "Open Book."
2024-11-2658 minOpen BookPeggy Douglas, Part IIPeggy Douglas(Southern Exposure)(Aired Sat 11/09/24) On this episode of "Open Book," Richard Winham shares the first part of his conversation with Peggy Douglas of "Southern Exposure."
2024-11-2658 minLive In The LibraryThe WildwoodsThe Wildwoods(The Wildwoods)(Aired Sat 11/23/24)The Wildwoods - a band that describes itself as "a journey through the heart of American roots music" - joins Richard Winham for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-11-2658 minLive In The LibraryJosh Wheeler Josh Wheeler( Josh Wheeler)(Aired Sat 11/16/24) Singer-songwriter Josh Wheeler is Richard Winham's guest on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-11-2658 min
Live In The LibrarySequatchie River Band - aka Sequatchie Band - aka IntervalThe members of Interval.(Ray Soldano Photography)(Aired Sat 11/09/24) The Sequatchie River Band - also known as The Sequatchie Band, also known as Interval - join Richard Winham for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-11-2656 minLive In The LibraryRob Alderman And The Unfortunate ReturnRob Alderman and The Unfortunate Return at the Chattanooga Public Library studio.(Rob Alderman and The Unfortunate Return)(Aired Sat 11/02/24)Rob Alderman and The Unfortunate Return - the rock band from Bradley County, TN - jam in this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-11-0558 minLive In The LibraryPi JacobsPi Jacobs(pijacobs.com)(Aired Sat 10/26/24) Pi Jacobs, an Americana artist in Los Angeles, joins Richard Winham for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at the Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-11-0558 minOpen BookAndrew K. Clark - And Peggy Douglas, Part IAndrew K. Clark(Andrew K. Clark)(Aired Sat 10/19/24) On this episode of "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Andrew K. Clark, Appalachian Gothic writer and poet who lives near Asheville, NC - and shares the first part of his conversation with Peggy Douglas of "Southern Exposure."Peggy Douglas(Southern Exposure)
2024-10-2158 minLive In The LibraryJoe Evans Trio(chocolatedazzles / Creative Commons)(Aired Sat 10/19/24) The Joe Evans Trio joins Richard Winham in the studio for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-10-2158 minLive In The LibraryRichard DaigleRichard Daigle(Richard Daigle)(Aired Sat 10/12/24) Singer-songwriter Richard Daigle shares songs from his latest album "Cajun People" on this episode of "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-10-2158 min
Live In The LibraryKimi CarterKimi Carter(Kimi Carter)Singer-songwriter Kimi Carter joins Richard Winham in the studio at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library."
2024-10-0758 minOpen BookRichard JacksonRichard Jackson in 2022.(Angela Foster / UTC)Richard Jackson - who established the creative writing program on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - talks about his latest collection of poems, "Where the Wind Comes From," on this episode of "Open Book" with WUTC's Richard Winham.
2024-09-2458 minLive In The LibraryFinger FoodsFinger Foods(Finger Foods)Finger Foods, a country / shoegaze band from Nashville, joins Richard Winham on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library" - recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-09-2458 minLive In The LibraryJhett BlackJhett Black(Jhett Black)Jhett Black brings the sound of Southern Gothic blues on this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-09-1058 minLive In The LibraryLand Camera(Land Camera)Land Camera describes its sound as "an amalgam of British rock, American alternative and folk pop, with experimental leanings."The Chattanooga band features multi-instrumentalists Callie Harmon, Charles Allison, Adam Brown and John R. Lazenby III. Listen to them on this episode of "Live in the Library" - hosted by Richard Winham and featuring Haley Solomon's interview with the band - recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-09-0358 minLive In The LibraryNancy ManetNancy Manet(Nancy Manet)Singer. Songwriter. Survivor. Nancy Manet joins Richard Winham as the guest for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-09-0258 minLive In The LibrarySamcha And The Welcome Committee(Samcha and the Welcome Committee)Samcha and The Welcome Committee - a Chattanooga band - joins Richard Winham for this episode of WUTC's "Live in the Library," recorded downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-08-0458 minLive In The LibraryParker MillsapParker Millsap(Parker Millsap)Parker Millsap - a singer-songwriter musician from Oklahoma - brings his blend of blues, country, rock, Americana and folk to this episode of "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-07-2958 minLive In The LibraryEmerald ButlerEmerald Butler(Emerald Butler)Emerald Butler - fiddle player and Americana songwriter - is the guest on this episode of "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-07-2158 minOpen BookStorytellers: Michael Ake, Holly Morse-Ellington, Kashun Parks, Mark Anderson(matsuyuki / Creative Commons)On this episode of "Open Book," Richard Winham speaks with Michael Ake, Holly Morse-Ellington and Kashun Parks of Cast Iron Storytelling from Next Exit Productions - and author Mark Anderson.
2024-07-2156 minOpen BookLaura HankinLaura Hankin(Penguin Random House)Laura Hankin - whose latest novel and first romcom is "One-Star Romance" - is Richard Winham's guest on this episode of "Open Book."
2024-07-1557 minLive In The LibraryBearhoundA few members of Bearhound in concert.(Bearhound)Bearhound - a band from Cleveland, TN - performs in this episode of "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-07-1558 minLive In The LibraryGrant Langston(Grant Langston)Grant Langston - singer / songwriter, musician and honky tonker from Alabama who is now based in Los Angeles - plays songs from his new album "aLAbama" on this episode of "Live in the Library" with Richard Winham, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library. Grant Langston(Grant Langston)
2024-07-0758 minLive In The LibraryCatherine CampbellCatherine Campbell(Catherine Campbell)Catherine Campbell - singer/songwriter and indie rock practitioner here in Chattanooga - is Richard Winham's guest on this episode of "Live in the Library," recorded downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-07-0158 minOpen BookTasha Coryell - & Jason TinneyTasha Coryell(Emily Covington)On this Open Book, my first guest is Tasha Coryell - whose just published novel is titled "Love Letters To a Serial Killer."In the excerpt from the opening pages of the novel, read by Andi Arndt, the young woman Hannah talks about her life - alone much of the time - in Minnesota. It’s the preamble to her decision to write to an accused serial killer, William, in prison awaiting trial in Atlanta for the murder of four young women.My second guest on this show is Ja...
2024-06-1658 minOpen BookStephen Eoannou & Pi Jacobs(infomatique / Creative Commons)(Aired 5/18/24)For this "Open Book," my first guest is Stephen Eoannou. When I was a very young lad living in a London suburb, I spent many of my days dreaming of riding a horse, six guns strapped to my waist on the dusty roads of the Old West. The Lone Ranger was my hero and I waited eagerly each week to catch up with his adventures on the 9” screen of the family television. I wasn’t alone. The show had an international audience in the millions - one of w...
2024-06-1259 minOpen BookJames Champion(Jo Naylor / Flickr)(Aired 5/11/24)In this Open Book, my guest is a practicing psychiatrist who writes under the name James Champion. He decided to use a different name when writing his first novel to protect the patients he writes about in his account of the two years he spent in medical school as a clinical resident.“The clinical years of medical school are a unique and challenging experience,” he said - a period in which he was moving to a different rotation (including gynecology, cardiology, pediatrics psychiatry and neurosurgery) every one to two mont...
2024-06-1258 minOpen BookJason Tinney, Holly Morse-Ellington, Melodie Edwards(Cast Iron Storytelling)(Aired 4/13/2024) For the first half of this week’s "Open Book," my guests are the local playwrights, actors and producers Jason Tinney and Holly Morse-Ellington. Jason Tinney(Cast Iron Storytelling)Holly Morse-Ellington(Cast Iron Storytelling)In the second half of the show, my guest is Melodie Edwards. Her first novel was a re-imagining of "Jane Eyre," in which she pulled Jane and her prickly love interest Edward Rochester from the mid-19th Century into the present day. In her just published second novel, a re-imagining of Jane Au...
2024-06-1258 minOpen BookJason Tinney And The World Of "Cast Iron Storytelling"Jason Tinney - at the launch of "Cast Iron Storytelling" at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga in April 2024.(Cast Iron Storytelling)Richard Winham talks to Jason Tinney - actor, writer and producer - about his latest project "Cast Iron Storytelling." The series of curated stories from ordinary people was launched in April at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga - and returns there on Saturday, June 22nd and Sunday, June 23rd.Jason Tinney - and storytellers Taylor Boyd, Cathy Scott and Ginger Birnbaum - at the launch of "Cast Iron Storytelling" at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga in...
2024-06-1058 minLive In The LibraryKamikaze DaliKamikaze Dali describes its songs as "sometimes grass, sometimes jazz, sometimes folk - always a servant to sound." Richard Winham hosts a session with the band from Rome, Georgia - recorded at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.
2024-06-1058 min
Open BookDeborah Levine & Amy WrightMy guests for this Open Book are Deborah Levine and Amy Wright. Deborah Levine is the editor-in-chief of the American Diversity Report. She has written 18 books and, according to her biography, she has been a change-maker for a diverse world in challenging times for more than three decades. In fact for much of her life, Deborah has been living in her imagination just as she did when she was a little girl growing up on the island of Bermuda.For the second half of the program, my guest is Amy Wright. Dr. Wright is a professor of...
2024-04-2458 min
On The Outside In ChattanoogaTurning The Page On An Iconic Piece Of Chattanooga’s HistoryThe Chattanooga Choo-Choo(Chattanooga Tourism Co.)This month, Preserve Chattanooga - the historic preservation nonprofit in this city - sold its portion of the Terminal Station complex on Market Street.The sale to Northpond Partners also protects both the complex’s interior dome and its exterior facade from demolition or “inappropriate architectural changes.”Todd Morgan is executive director of Preserve Chattanooga.
2024-03-2709 minOpen BookOpen Book with Rose McLarney( Photo from rosemclarney.com)For this Open Book which is now on two successive Saturday evenings every month, my guest is Rose McLarney whose most recent collection of poems, Colorfast, has just been published.Rose is an associate professor of creative writing at Auburn University in Alabama. She’s also co-editor-in-chief and poetry editor of The Southern Humanities Review. She grew up in Western North Carolina and many of the poems in this book are reflections on her life growing up in the North Carolina mountains.
2024-03-2659 minOpen BookOpen Book with Stephanie Dray(Photo from Stephaniedray.com)For this Open Book. my guest is New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction, Stephanie Dray. Her award-winning work has been translated into many languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the year. Her most recent book is a novel based on the life of Frances Perkins. Frances Perkins is best remembered, if at all, as one of the architects of the Social Security Act. But during the nearly two decades when she was in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s cabinet first when he was Gove...
2024-03-2658 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaThe Conversations ContinueOn the Outside in Chattanooga, an ongoing conversation with the men, women and children living on the street in Chattanooga and the people who're daily doing all they can to help find them a home, has expanded to an hour. In this first hour-long show, we talked to some of the people who daily criss-cross the city and the county, offering solace and support to the homeless. We also talked to the former Mayor of Chattanooga, Ron Littlefield, about 11th Street and the "campus" for the homeless that he began creating in the early 2000's...
2023-12-1312h 43On The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Eight: Housing First (Pt. 2)For too many people in Chattanooga, the cost of renting an apartment is beyond their means. According to Zumper, an online apartment search site, in the last year, the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Chattanooga jumped by 18.3% over the past year to an average rent of $1,550 a month, Realtors are reporting that the rise in rental prices is now slowing, but for many people finding affordable housing is almost insurmountable. And when they lose their job and don’t have a family to help them until they find a job, they have no other option than to li...
2023-11-0904 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Seven: Housing FirstIn this first half of a two-part episode in our continuing series On The Outside in Chattanooga, titled Housing First, we’re talking about a policy that everyone we spoke to helping the unsheltered told us was the only place to start. Before they can do anything to help the unsheltered person, they first have to find them a permanent place to live.One of the reasons that is becoming ever more of a challenge is because Chattanooga is growing so quickly. In fact, Nashville is the only city in Tennessee growing faster than Chattanooga. The population of...
2023-09-2104 minOpen BookDick Golden & Ray PadgettMy guests on this month’s show are equally passionate music fans albeit with a very different focus. My first guest, Dick Golden, has been hosting and producing radio programs since the early 1960’s. He’s passionate about the music and the singers associated with American popular music before rock and roll especially Tony Bennett with whom he had a long friendship. A few years ago he published a coffee table book in which he wrote about his long relationship with the late singer.My second guest, Ray Padgett, is passionate about Bob Dylan. He began first hostin...
2023-09-1400 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Six: Families and ChildrenLife on the outside in Chattanooga is a daily challenge for single people, but for parents with young children, it can be devastating. One reason for that, according to the people we talked to on 11th Street in the past year, is that many cities do not make any provision for unsheltered families, and when they do they split them up making a difficult situation almost impossible to bear. Here in Chattanooga, The McClellan Family and Children’s Shelter on 11th Street provides shelter for up to thirteen families at any one time. The families, some with two parents, so...
2023-09-1304 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Five: DrugsLiving on the outside in Chattanooga is always a challenge. On 11th Street, those daily challenges are further exacerbated by very potent drugs. For many people living on 11th Street, it’s hard to resist a drug that promises to ease their daily pain. Fentanyl—an analgesic 50 times as potent as heroin and 100 times as potent as morphine, according to the DEA—is everywhere on 11th street.
2023-09-0704 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Four: DangerJust a word of warning. This next piece contains material that isn’t suitable for children.People trapped On the Outside in Chattanooga, like many of us, find daily life a struggle, but for the unsheltered on 11th street (the population of which is divided roughly evenly between men and women), there is also the ever-present threat of casual violence.These conversations about life on 11th Street were recorded over the past year.
2023-09-0704 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Three: Homeless HealthcareOf all the services offered to the unsheltered in Chattanooga, the most valuable and comprehensive are offered by The Homeless Healthcare Center on 11th Street in Chattanooga.Dr. Karen Moyer is the Medical Director for the Center. For 22 years she has led a team of nurses and physicians tending to the healthcare of the unsheltered population in Chattanooga. They are family doctors for the unsheltered treating them like family.Joe Brackett is a tireless advocate for the unsheltered. For more than seven years he has spent every week visiting the unsheltered in camps spread across...
2023-08-2404 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart Two: HeatIt’s hot. Records have been broken. It’s the story of the Summer. We’re all wilting, but most of us can escape into air-conditioned offices and homes. For the unsheltered, there is little if any relief. The Salvation Army and The CHATT Foundation offer shelter during the day, but at night the only option is The Mission with 75 beds for men and women.In part 2 of On the Outside in Chattanooga, we are talking about surviving the solar onslaught on the street.
2023-08-2404 minOn The Outside In ChattanoogaPart One: Food, Glorious FoodFor the past 18 months, Mal O’Connell and I have been talking to people living on the street in Chattanooga along with the army of professionals working to help them. For most of those 18 months, we were very much like the blind men and the elephant trying to grasp the enormity of the problem.But over time we began to understand that it’s not one problem or one person, but a huge shifting population of people each with their own unique perspective. Realizing that helped us to begin telling the story one topic at a time.
2023-08-1004 minOpen BookJuly: Anya von Bremzen and Sybil BakerFor Open Book this month my guests Anya von Bremzen and Sybil Baker.Food critic Anya Von Bremzen’s most recent book National Dish is a fascinating reflection on how essential food is to national identity, especially in an era when globalization is creating a kind of universal identity where once difficult-to-source indigenous dishes have become ubiquitous and available in almost any supermarket anywhere.Anya grew up in the USSR with her mother who loved food and daily lamented the paucity of choice in the grocery store—a fact that wasn’t lost on the Russia...
2023-07-1858 minOpen BookC.S. Devereaux(https://www.csdevereaux.com/books/2023/fall-from-snowbird-mountain-cs-devereaux / https://www.csdevereaux.com/books/2023/fall-from-snowbird-mountain-cs-devereaux)My guest on this month’s Open Book is Devereaux Chivington Stebbins. Devereaux, who writes under the pen name C.S. Devereaux, has written several memoirs, but her most recent novel is her first work of historical fiction. While It’s based on the life of a North Carolina man, Jason Hyde, and the town he helped build in the mountains of North Carolina it is equally a portrait of a period in the history of the country immediately before and after the Civil War.Wars...
2023-05-2358 minOpen BookJennifer Daniels & Peggy DouglasMy first guest on this month’s Open Book is singer and songwriter Jennifer Daniels. After 25 years of writing and singing songs, Jennifer is now also a novelist. Her second book, written for young adults, is as she put it “a paranormal adventure story” in which one of the two narrators has the ability to shape-shift into a lion. His name is Chowsie. His father is part of the Oglala Lakota tribe in South Dakota where he grew up. The other narrator is Elizabeth, nicknamed Sunbeam and later just Beam. Beam lives in Atlanta, but like Chowsie, Beam’s father i...
2023-04-2057 minOpen BookRebecca Makkai & Gwen MullinsThe two guests on this month’s Open Book are the Chicago-based writer Rebecca Makkai and local writer and essayist Gwen Mullins. Rebecca Makkai’s recently published novel is titled I Have Some Questions For You. In a review in the New York Times, Hamilton Cain called it “whip-smart, uncompromising, and (mostly) a pleasure to read.”( Gwen Mullins)This is open Book. My second guest this evening is local writer and essayist Gwen Mullins. Gwen is in the process of submitting her first novel to a publisher, while she’s also already working on her second. Th...
2023-03-2000 minOpen Book"Let Me Say This" - A Dolly Parton AnthologyThe poems celebrating Dolly Parton’s life and writing titled "Let Me Say This" edited by my guest Julie Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire was published last month. This is Open Book. I’m Richard Winham. Thanks so much for listening. Good night.
2023-02-201h 00Open BookOpen Book: December 2022Brent Bill, the owner of Red Bird Recording studio on East 13th Street in Chattanooga.Alex Volz, a storyteller turned songwriter.Kate Landers, a short story writer with an occasional itch for poetry.
2022-12-2157 minOpen BookOpen Book with Louise KennedyTalking with Mary Louise Kelly on All Things Considered about her relatively late start as a writer, the Irish novelist Mary Louise Kennedy told her “…it was really late, I suppose. I mean, I think people have maybe started later, but, I mean, I was pretty much bundled into a car and brought to a writing group when I was 47. And it wasn't that I never wanted to write. I think when I was about 7 or 8 I thought that I'd like to write, but that just didn't happen. And I probably had got it into my head that it was...
2022-11-2235 minOpen BookOpen Book with Robert CraisRobert Crais began his career writing scripts for such groundbreaking television shows as Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, and L.A Law. But after ten years in Hollywood spent writing as one of a group of writers working on a script, he left to write novels “he wanted to read” and over which he had sole control. Since the mid-1980s, he’s written nineteen novels, published in 62 countries, featuring a private detective called Elvis Cole.In 2014, Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master. Agatha Christie was the first writer to receive the award in 195...
2022-11-2229 minLive In The LibraryNext At Nightfall: Call Me Spinster and Drew Sterchi(Chattanooga Presents)Richard Winham speaks with the headliners for this Friday's show at the Nightfall Concert Series in downtown Chattanooga: Call Me Spinster and Drew Sterchi.
2022-07-2858 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Grafted CultureGrafted Culture(Grafted Culture)Richard Winham shares a conversation with Grafted Culture, the Dutch-American sister duo with an international indie folk-pop sound who now live in the Chattanooga area.
2022-07-2425 minOpen BookTalking Writing: “Matilda” At Signal Mountain Playhouse(Signal Mountain Playhouse)Richard Winham shares a conversation with Garry Posey and Bea Burbank on “Matilda: The Musical” - premiering Friday, July 8th at Signal Mountain Playhouse.
2022-07-2423 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Singer-Songwriter Patty GriffinPatty Griffin(pattygriffin.com)Richard Winham shares his conversation with Patty Griffin, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter.
2022-07-2437 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Howard Brown(Howard Brown)(aired Weds 6/22/22)Richard Winham shares a conversation with poet Howard Brown, whose new collection is “Variations in the Perception of Color.”
2022-07-2430 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Rachel McIntyre Smith on “Glory Daze”Rachel McIntyre Smith(rachelmcintyresmith.com)Richard Winham shares a conversation with Rachel McIntyre Smith, the Chattanooga singer-songwriter, on her new album “Glory Daze.”
2022-07-2425 minOpen BookTalking Writing: The Scenic City Super ShowBarking Legs Theater(Barking Legs Theater)Richard Winham speaks with Courtenay Cholovich, Andrew Ledbetter and Matt Harris, the three standup comedians producing, hosting and performing in the Scenic City Super Show on Saturday night at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga.
2022-07-2431 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Deborah Levine on “Untold”Deborah Levine(Tennessee Entertainment Commission)Richard Winham shares a conversation with author Deborah Levine, whose most recent work is a radio play “Untold” - coming to WUTC next month.
2022-07-2429 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Rachelle Barr, Part IIRachelle Barr - cartinglee(cartinglee.com)(aired Weds 5/04/22)Richard Winham shares the second part of a conversation with Rachelle Barr - the singer and songwriter who performs as Cartinglee - on this week’s Talking Writing.
2022-07-2429 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Rachelle Barr, Part IRachelle Barr(cartinglee.com)Richard Winham shares the first part of a conversation with Rachelle Barr - the singer and songwriter who performs as Cartinglee - on this week’s Talking Writing.
2022-07-2430 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Christian J. Collier And His Poetry, Part IIChristian J. Collier(christianjcollier.com)Richard Winham shares part two of his conversation with poet, artist and educator Christian J. Collier - whose most recent collection of poems is “The Gleaming of the Blade.”(Bull City Press / christianjcollier.com)
2022-07-2429 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Christian J. Collier And His Poetry, Part IChristian J. Collier(christianjcollier.com)Richard Winham shares the first part of his conversation with poet, artist and educator Christian J. Collier - whose most recent collection of poems is “The Gleaming of the Blade.”(Bull City Press / christianjcollier.com)
2022-07-2426 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Helga Kidder on “Learning Curve,” Part IIHelga Kidder(Chattanooga Writers Guild)Richard Winham shares the second part of his conversation with poet Helga Kidder on “Learning Curve,” her new collection of poetry that traces the arc of her life from her native Germany to Chattanooga today.
2022-07-2429 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Helga Kidder on “Learning Curve,” Part I(Creative Commons)Richard Winham shares the first part of his conversation with poet Helga Kidder on “Learning Curve,” her new collection of poetry that traces the arc of her life from her native Germany to Chattanooga today.Helga Kidder(Chattanooga Writers Guild)
2022-07-2427 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Charlotte Simon(all that improbable blue / Creative Commons)Richard Winham shares a conversation with singer-songwriter Charlotte Simon, who has just released her first album.
2022-07-2430 minOpen BookA Southern Writer Explored In “Flannery’s Cafe” At Chatt StateFlannery O’Connor(Floyd Jillson)Flannery O’Connor was born nearly a century ago in Savannah, Georgia - and her complex legacy as a Southern Gothic writer reverberates to this day.“Flannery’s Cafe” is a play that delves into her notions of prejudice, grace and redemption through the characters in her stories.Written by Peggy Douglas and Jason Tinney, the play opens Friday at Chattanooga State Community College, in partnership with the nonprofit Mark Making.Due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter, a public talkback will be held after the play - mod...
2022-07-2438 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Marilyn Forsythe on “Gone Nuts About Herbs”Marilyn & Neville Forsythe(Neville Forsythe)Richard Winham speaks with Marilyn Forsythe - wife of the late Chattanooga chef Neville Forsythe - about “Gone Nuts About Herbs,” a collection of his favorite recipes that she edited.
2022-07-2426 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Lisa BakerLisa Baker(Wes Tobayoyong / lisabakerguitar.com)Richard Winham shares a conversation with Lisa Baker - guitarist, composer, painter and educator - who will give a presentation at UTC on Monday, February 28th on some of the women whose seminal creative influence has been largely overlooked.
2022-07-2428 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Robert Gwaltney & “The Cicada Tree,” Part II(Moonshine Cove Publishing)Richard Winham shares the second part of his conversation with Robert Gwaltney, vice president of Easter Seals North Georgia - and author of the debut novel “The Cicada Tree,” set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950’s.Robert Gwaltney(Robert Gwaltney)
2022-07-2429 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Robert Gwaltney & “The Cicada Tree,” Part IRobert Gwaltney(Robert Gwaltney)Richard Winham shares the first part of his conversation with Robert Gwaltney, vice president of Easter Seals North Georgia - an author of the debut novel “The Cicada Tree,” set in a small Mississippi town in the 1950’s.(Moonshine Cove Publishing)
2022-07-2426 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Douglas Wolk On “All Of The Marvels”Douglas Wolk, at right - and the cover of his book, at left.(Penguin Random House)(aired Weds 11/24/21)Richard Winham speaks with Douglas Wolk, author of the book “All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told,” published by Penguin Random House.
2022-07-2430 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Dr. Jing Tsu On “Kingdom Of Characters”Dr. Jing Tsu(Yale University)Richard Winham shares a conversation with Dr. Jing Tsu, literary scholar and cultural historian at Yale University, on her new book, “Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern.”(Penguin Random House)
2022-07-2439 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Gwen KirbyGwen Kirby(Gwen Kirby)(aired Weds 1/19/22)Richard Winham shares a conversation with author Gwen Kirby on her debut collection of short stories.
2022-07-2428 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Four Writers In Conversation, Part II(followtheseinstructions / Creative Commons)(aired Weds 1/12/22)Richard Winham shares the second part of conversation with four writers in the Chattanooga area: Helga Kidder, Cynthia Young, KB Ballentine and Rachel Landrum Crumble.
2022-07-2426 minOpen BookTalking Writing: Four Writers In Conversation, Part I(chimpwithcan / Creative Commons)(aired Weds 1/05/22)Richard Winham shares the first part of conversation with four writers in the Chattanooga area: Helga Kidder, Cynthia Young, KB Ballentine and Rachel Landrum Crumble.
2022-07-2430 minLive In The LibraryLive In The Library: Misfits Of Ugly HollywoodMisfits of Ugly Hollywood(Misfits of Ugly Hollywood)Richard Winham shares a session by the North Carolina band Misfits of Ugly Hollywood, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library. (aired Fri 7/08/22)
2022-07-2454 minLive In The LibraryLive In The Library: Neshawn CallowayNeshawn Calloway(Neshawn Calloway)Richard Winham shares a session by Chattanooga vocalist Neshawn Calloway, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2022-07-2457 minLive In The LibraryLive In The Library: Bear LeyBear Ley(Bear Ley)Richard Winham shares a session by singer-songwriter Louis Rubino of Columbia, South Carolina - who makes music as Bear Ley - recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2022-07-2457 minLive In The LibraryLive In The Library: Constant BotyConstant Boty(yfmghana.com)Richard Winham shares a session by Constant Boty, a guitarist from Ivory Coast in West Africa - along with Chattanooga musicians Stevie Bruno, Taylor Freeman and Donte Massengill - recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2022-07-2458 min
Live In The LibraryLive In The Library: The Sam Burchfield BandSam Burchfield(samburchfield.com)Richard Winham and Mal O’Connell shares a session by The Sam Burchfield Band, recorded live downtown at The Chattanooga Public Library.
2022-07-2457 min
The Normal Life PodcastEpisode 70 - Invasion of the BritshJason and I got the chance to visit with WUTC's Sir Richard Winham to share some songs and stories. What a guy! Aaannnnnd he is British. So, we basically were talking to a Beatle.
2022-01-0831 min