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9/03/2010 Brian Hicks is a weekly columnist who never really set out to be a weekly columnist. However, his column for the Post and Courier newspaper of Charleston has a following of loyal readers who enjoy his irreverent style. He talks with Dr. Edgar about how he wound up being a columnist and how he finds topics. And, we’ll have an encore of an earlier visit with Gene Owens, columnist, journalist, and story teller.
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9/10/2010
Back when Clayton Hunt was at USC in Columbia he supported himself by designing and printing custom t-shirts for campus organizations. He joins Dr. Edgar to talk about how he turned that side line into a successful business, The Graphic Cow.
9/03/2010
Brian Hicks is a weekly columnist who never really set out to be a weekly columnist. However, his column for the Post and Courier newspaper of Charleston has a following of loyal readers who enjoy his irreverent style. He talks with Dr. Edgar about how he wound up being a columnist and how he finds topics.

And, we’ll have an encore of an earlier visit with Gene Owens, columnist, journalist, and story teller.
8/27/2010
He Laughed 'Til He Died is mystery writer Carolyn Hart's 20th Death on Demand mystery. This time, more than one death in Broward's Rock, S.C., engages Annie Darling and her husband, Max. Maybe the need some help? They get it in the form of a group of local ladies, led by mystery writer Emma Clyde, who assist Annie and Max in the hunt for the killer. Carolyn will give Walter the bird's eye lowdown on this caper.

Columbia's Fran Rizer has always loved to write. She has turned that love into a second career, writing a successful series of mysteries featuring her protagonist, Callie Parish, a beautician at the local mortuary in fictional St. Mary, South Carolina.

Fran Rizer joins Dr. Edgar for a free-wheeling conversation about Callie and the second novel in the series, Hey Diddle Diddle, the Corpse and the Fiddle.
8/20/2010
(Originally broadcast 09/29/09) - Charles Platt, the head of the SC Emergency Management Division, and SCEMD Chief of Preparedness Jon Boettcher will talk about the role the agency plays in preparedness and disaster response. And Dr. Susan Cutter, director of USC’s Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, will discuss with Dr. Edgar the current level of preparedness statewide for the next big natural disaster.

Mayor Joe Riley of Charleston recounts the landfall of Hurricane Hugo, nearly 21 years ago. He also talks with Dr. Edgar about preparing for the next hurricane that makes land in the Lowcountry, and the impact such a storm could have on dense coastal development.
8/13/2010
Dorothea Benton Frank joins Dr. Edgar to talk about her latest book. Lowcountry Summer is the long-awaited sequel to her beloved bestseller, Plantation. When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with long-buried truths about herself and her family. The Queen of Tall Pines, her late mother, was a force of nature, but now she is gone, leaving Caroline and the rest of the family uncertain of who will take her place.

Author Cassandra King says "Lowcountry Summer has it all: a sassy, lovable narrator; great, believable characters; laugh-out-loud lines; page-turning action; and surprising plot twists. In other words, it’s Dorothea Benton Frank at her best!”
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